Council on Middle East Studies Program in Iranian Studies: “Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Time, Place, and Dialogue in the post-Mongol Persian Ghazal”

Event time: 
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Zoom Session See map
Event description: 

The Council on Middle East Studies Program in Iranian Studies presents Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Persian, Wadham College, Oxford: 

Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Time, Place, and Dialogue in the post-Mongol Persian Ghazal.”

Zoom session.  Register here: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p3So11AFQZimRuPmSHGLCQ

From 2011-2013, he was Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Dominic currently serves on the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures and, for a decade (2004-2014), he was Assistant Editor for Iranian Studies. He is a former member of both the Board of the International Society for Iranian Studies, and the Governing Council of the British Institute of Persian Studies. His latest book, Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance, and Patronage in Fourteenth-century Iran (I B Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019) was awarded the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award by the Association of Iranian Studies in July 2020.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
General Public