The Adab Colloquium: Workshop with Mana Kia and Sunil Sharma

The Imprint of the Era in the Adab of the Times: Circulation and the Persianate at Empire’s End

Wednesday, September 23, 2020. 4:00-6:00 pm

In this Adab Colloquium, Dr. Mana Kia will discuss her paper examining the relation between material circulation of texts, commemorations of collectives, and transregional social imaginaries at the end of Persianate empires between Iran and India. Beginning with imperial apogee at the end of the seventeenth century, her paper traces imprints of subsequent social and political fragmentation on the form (adab) of tazkirah writing and transregional connections.

This event will take place online over Zoom. To RSVP and receive the link to join and a copy of the pre-circulated paper please contact Katherine von Ofenheim at kev2122@columbia.edu.

The Adab Colloquium in Columbia is a platform for scholars whose work engages with the range of adab practices of reading, writing, and performance from the 6th century down to the 19th century. The colloquium brings together faculty and graduate students from Columbia and other universities in the region for intensive discussions of new research by leading specialists invited from the US and abroad.