| Day
1 |
(September
4, 2002) |
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| 09.00-10.00 |
Registration and Coffee
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| 10.00-10.10 |
Opening
Remarks,
Farhad Hakimzadeh |
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| 10.10-11:30 |
Session
1: The Safavid Empire in the Early Modern World |
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Chair, Edmund Herzig |
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Bert Fragner, The Safavid Empire and the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Political and
Strategic Balance of Power within the World System |
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Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, Iranian
Culture in the Iranian World and beyond under the
Safavids |
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| 11:30-12.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 12.00-13.30 |
Session
2: European Travellers in Persia |
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Chair, Stefan Troebst |
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Jean Calmard,
The French Presence in Safavid Persia |
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John
Ghazvinian, British Travellers to Iran (1580-1645) |
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Sonja Brentjes, The Presence of Ancient Secular
and Sacred Texts and Authors in Pietro della Valle’s
(1586-1652) Diary, his Handwritten Letters, and their
Published Version |
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| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch |
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| 14.30-16.00 |
Session
3: The Struggle for Power on the Eastern Borders |
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Chair, Paul Luft |
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Maria Szuppe, Some Observations on the MUSAKHKHIR
AL-BILAD (ca. 1605) by Muhammad-Yar Qataghan: A Rare
Source on the History of Sixteenth Century Central Asia
and Khurasan |
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Barat Dahmardeh, Sheibani Uzbeks, Mughals and
Safavids in Sistan: The Struggle for Domination,
1589-1622 |
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Michele
Bernardini, The Conquest of Jarun by the Portuguese
(1622) in a Fathname Kept in the Estense Library of
Modena |
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 16.30-18.00 |
Session
4: Diplomatic Relations with Spain and Venice |
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Chair, Alexander Morton |
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Giorgio Rota, Safavid Persia and its Diplomatic
Relations with Venice |
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Luis
Gil, The Embassy of Don García de Silva y Figueroa
to Shah Abbas I (1614-1624) |
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Enrique
García Hernan, The Holy See, the Hispanic Monarchy
and Persia in the Sixteenth Century |
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| 18.30-20.30 |
Reception |
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| Day
2 |
(September
5, 2002) |
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| 9.30-11.00 |
Session
5: Trade and the Safavid Economy |
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Chair, Willem Floor |
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Rudi Matthee, The Safavid Economy as Part of the
World Economy |
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Suraiya Faroqhi, ACEM TÜCCARI in Anatolia
and Istanbul in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Century |
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Stefan Troebst, Sweden, Russia and the Safavid
Empire: A Mercantile Perspective |
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 11.30-12.30 |
Session
6: The Armenian Traders |
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Chair, Richard Tapper |
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René Bekius, The Persian Armenian Colony in
Amsterdam during the Safavid Period |
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Shushanik Khachikyan, Sarhad’s Account-Book as
a Source for the Commercial Activities of New Julfan
Merchants in the Eighteenth Century |
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| 12.30-13.30 |
Session
7: Sunni and Shi‘i Relations and Perceptions |
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Chair, Jean Calmard |
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Alexander Morton, Maulana Ahmad Pakaraji and the
Origins of Anti-Safavid Polemic |
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Andrew Newman, ‘Arab Doctors’, Iranian
‘Notables’ and the ‘Revival’ of Akhbari Shi'ism
in Safavid Iran |
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| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch
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| 14.30-16.30 |
Session
8: Trade to the South and East |
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Chair, Rudi Matthee |
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Willem Floor, Arduous Travel and Trade: The
Qandahar-Isfahan Highway in the Seventeenth
Century |
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Stephen Blake, Indian Merchants in
Mid-Seventeenth Century Isfahan |
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René Barendse, The Dutch East India Company,
Iran and the Arabian Sea: Some Second Th
oughts |
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Edmund Herzig, Safavid Foreign Trade Policy? The
Evidence from Persian Sources |
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| 16.30-17.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 17.00-18.30 |
Session
9: The Caucasus |
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Chair, Michael Rogers |
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Grigol Beradze, On the History of the Political
Relations of Safavid Iran and Georgia: King Luarsab II
and his Captivity in Iran |
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Hirotake Maeda, Shah Abbas I’s Policy towards
the Caucasus: From the Information in the Newly
Discovered Third Volume of the AFDAL AL-TAVARIKH |
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Nana Gelashvili, Iranian-Georgian Relations
During the Reign of Rostom (1632-1658) |
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| Day
3 |
(Sept
ember 6, 2002) |
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| 09.30-11.00 |
Session
10: Relations with the Ottomans and Mamluks |
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Chair, Kathryn Babayan |
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Rasool Jafariyan, Shah Isma‘il I’s Political
Relations with the Mamluks |
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Ernest Tucker, Rhetoric
of Conflict in Circumstances of Peace: The Evolution of
Ottoman-Safavid Diplomacy Through the Seventeenth
Century |
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Colin Imber, The Battle of Sufiyan: A Symptom of
Ottoman Military Decline? |
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 11.30-13.00 |
Session
11: Technical and Artistic Exchange in Ceramics and
Metalwork |
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Chair, Ernst Grube |
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Yolande Crowe, The Safavid Potter at the
Crossroads of Styles |
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Katsuhiko Abe, Blue and White Tiles from
Kerman |
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James Allan, Safavid Loss, Ottoman Gain:
Metalwork Across the Two Empires |
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| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
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| 14.00-16.00 |
Session
12: Cross-Cultural Currents in Safavid and Mughal
Painting |
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Chair, James Allan |
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Eleanor
Sims, Late Safavid Large Scale Paintings - East of the
Sun and West of the Moon |
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Amy Landau, The Transmission and Reception of
Counter-Reformation Art and Culture in Safavid Persia:
The Armenian Contribution |
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Sheila Canby, Illuminating the Mughals: The
Influence of Iran on Early Mughal Manuscript
Illumination |
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Sue Stronge, Gardens of the Mind: Safavid
Influence on the Development of the Mughal Floral Style |
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 16.30-18.00 |
Session
13: Catholic Missionaries in the Safavid Realm |
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Chair, Andrew Newman |
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Carlos Alonso Vanes, The Role of the Augustinian
Convent on Hormuz Between 1573 and 1621 |
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Francis Richard, Fr. Aimé Chézaud –
Controversialist |
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Kristine Kostikyan, European Catholic Missionary
Propaganda Among the Armenian Population of Safavid Iran |
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| Day
4 |
(September
7, 2002) |
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| 09.30-11.00 |
Session
14: The Safavids, India and the Indian Ocean |
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Chair, Ernest Tucker |
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Muzaffar Alam, Safavid Iran and Mughal India: Rivals or
Complementary Centres? |
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Christoph Marcinkowski, The Safavid Presence in the
Indian Ocean: A Reappraisal of the SHIP OF SULAIMAN, a
Seventeenth-century Travel Account to Siam |
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam, An Infernal Triangle: Portuguese,
Mughals and Safavids in the First Decade of Shah Abbas I |
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| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 11.30-13.30 |
Session
15: Perceptions and Self-Perceptions |
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Chair, Suraiya Faroqhi |
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Kathryn Babayan, Situating the Self Around
Something Lost and Foreign: A Safavi Widow’s
Pilgrimage to Mecca |
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Mansur Sefatgol, Farang, Farangi, and Farangestan:
Safavid Historiography and the West (1501-1736) |
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Masashi Haneda, Bandar Abbas and Nagasaki: An
Analysis on the Reaction of Safavid Government to
Europeans from the Comparative Point of View |
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Boghos Levon Zekiyan, The Armenian
Self-Perception between the Ottomans and the Safavids |
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| 13.30-14.30 |
Lunch
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| 14.30-16.30 |
Session
16: European Reflections and Perceptions on Safavid Iran |
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Chair, Bert Fragner |
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Ina Baghdiants-McCabe, Beyond the LETTRES
PERSANES: Safavid Iran in the Political Discourse of
the French Enlightenment |
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Parvin Loloi, The Image of the Safavids in
English and French Literature of the Sixteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries |
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Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, Safavid Iran in the
Works of André Thevet (1516-1592), Cosmographer of the
Last French Kings of the Valois Dynasty |
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Elio Brancaforte, Mapping the REGNUM SOPHORUM:
Adam Olearius' Representation of the Safavid Empire
(1647) |
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| 16.30-17.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
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| 17.00-17.45 |
Closing
Remarks, Edmund Herzig |
