8 September - Wednesday
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| 18.00 - 20.00 |
Cocktail Reception
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9 September - Thursday
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| 8.30 – 9.30 |
Registration and Coffee in the Common Room, Faculty of Oriental Studies
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| 9.30 – 10.00 |
Welcome addresses
- Charles Melville
- Farhad Hakimzadeh
- Elahe Mir Djalali
- Christine van Ruymbeke
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| 10.00-11.00 |
Keynote address
- Christoph Buergel, Reflections about Nizami: problems, solved and unsolved
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/tea in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
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| 11.30-13.00 |
Session 1: New and different ways of reading and understanding the Khamsa
- Asghar Seyed Gohrab, A mystical reading of Nizami’s view
- - on nature in the Haft Paykar
- Francois de Blois, (title to be advised)
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| 13.00-14.30 |
Lunch
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| 14.30-16.00 |
Session 2: Miniatures and Art History
- Iana Bejaniyska, Shirin’s hair
- Priscilla Soucek and Muh. Isa Wailey, The Khamsa of Shah Tahmasp. Construction and deconstruction of a masterpiece
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee/tea in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
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| 16.30-18.30 |
Session 3: References to literary sources in the Khamsa
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Ziva Vesel, Teucros chez Nizami: un visiteur de l'imaginaire(English translation of the paper read by CvR)
- Angelo Piemontese, Haft Paykar and The Book of Sindbad
- Christine van Ruymbeke, What is it that Khusrow can learn from the Kalila wa Dimna?
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10 September - Friday
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| 9.00-9.30 |
Coffee/tea in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
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| 9.30-11.00 |
Session 4: on the Iskandarnama (I)
- Mario Casari, Nizami’s cosmographic vision and Alexander in search of the Fountain of Life
- Patrick Franke, Drinking from the Water of Life – Nizami’s encounter with the mythical figure of Khizr
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/tea in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
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| 11.30-13.00 |
Session 5: on the Iskandarnama (II) |
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- Gabrielle van den Berg, Reflections of Nizami’s version of Gog and Magog in the Iskandarnama |
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- Carlo Saccone, The Righteous King in Nizami’s Iskandarnama
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| 13.00-14.30 |
Lunch
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| 14.30-16.00 |
Session 6: On Leyla and Majnun
- Leily Anvar-Chenderoff, Desire and initiation in Leyli a Majnun
- Julie S Meisami, Images of Majnun: Towards a typology of illustration
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee/tea in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
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| 16.30-17.15 |
Session 7: Important motives throughout the Khamsa
- Kamran Talatoff, The concept of Sakhon in the works of Nizami, Hafez and Sa’di
- Christoph Buergel, The motif of self-knowledge in Nizami’s epical work
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| 17.00–17.30 |
Closing remarks by Christine van Ruymbeke
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