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Erin and Iran Conference

22 October 2011

Boole II Lecture Theatre

University College Cork


Erin and Iran Conference Panel 1: Comparative Legends

        Speaker                                 Paper Title                

Richard Davis, Ohio State University

Iran and Erin: Gorgani's Viseh and Beroult's Iseut

Olga Davidson, Boston University

Parallel Heroic Themes in the Old Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley and the Classical Persian Book of Kings


John McDonald, Cornell University
Building Bulls and Crafting Cows: Indo-European Narratives of Bovine Fabrication

Joseph Nagy, UCLA

The Conqueror Worm in Irish and Persian Tradition

Erin and Iran Conference Panel 2: Literary Encounters

             Date                                  Seminars                    

 Mohammad Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas

The Irish and Iranians in Simin Daneshvar's Savushum: Sharing Poetic Sensitivity and Misery

Oliver Scharbrodt, University College Cork

Orientalism and Persian Poetry in Late-Ninteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Ireland

Erin and Iran Conference: Panel 3: Socio-Cultural Encounters

             Date                                  Seminars                    

Moya Carey, Victoria and Albert Museum, London


Collecting for the 'Dublin Museum': Robert Murdoch Smith and the Acquisition of Artefacts from Qajar, Iran

 Brendan McNamara, University College Cork

An Irishwoman in Tehran (1849-1853)


Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College Dublin and Melanie Hoewer, University College Dublin
Gendered Images and Women's Rights in Iran and Ireland


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