LECTURE: Ruse and Guile in Classical Persian Prose Narratives: The Indian Heritage – Pegah Shahbaz (University of Toronto), Senior Fellow at Temporal Communities
The lecture is being presented in cooperation with Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, EXC 2020, organised by Beatrice Gründler (EXC 2020, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Johannes Stephan "Kalila and Dimna – AnonymClassic", ERC).
The lecture will be held as an in-person event. For further information please contact Johannes Stephan, johannes.stephan@fu-berlin.de.
Pegah Shahbaz is a specialist of classical Persian literature of Iran, Central and South Asia. She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy – the Asian Institute, an Associate Member of the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur l’Inde, l’Asie du Sud et sa Diaspora (CERIAS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Section Editor of the Fables and Tales Chapter of Perso-Indica Project. She works on questions of narratology, translation and systems of knowledge transmission in the Persianate World, in particular the reception and domestication of Indian religious and cultural heritage in Persianate literary culture
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2021 | 06:15 PM
Fabeckstraße 23/25, room 2.2063