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“There was one, there wasn’t one”: Modalities and challenges of the narrative in the Persianate world
Wednesday 17 April 2019
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International Conferences
27-28 June 2019
 
Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations
65, rue des Grands Moulins 75013, Paris
 
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Our dear friend and colleague Dr. Marina Gaillard, a specialist of classical Persian literature, member of the “Mondes iranien et indien” CNRS research team and associate faculty member at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, passed away prematurely in 2015. Her work on prose narratives, and particularly on the modalities of the “semi-popular” romance in medieval Iran, constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of pre-modern Persian narrative. Interrupted by her untimely death, her pioneering research continues to nourish and inspire much of our own work. This conference is dedicated to her memory.
From the lifesaving powers of Shahrazad’s stories to the satirical tales of Hedayat and Golshiri; from Ferdowsi’s mythical epic to the medieval romance in prose and verse; from Sa‘adi’s edifying anecdotes to Marjane Satrapi’s critical comics and to the cinema of Kiarostami and Farhadi – so many narratives have fascinated and continue to fascinate, well beyond the Persian-speaking audience while granting special access to the world in which they were produced, with its beliefs, its culture and ideas.
From this observation, it may be tempting to infer the existence of a narrative mode specific to the Persophone world. Could it be founded on a special relationship to the audience? Is it a unique way of recounting, handed down from times immemorial and living on to this day? Or is it rather that these narratives developed independently, in their form and aims, or in their relation to the community as an alternative to the narrative forms known to the Western world? The enduring appeal of the Persian narrative certainly deserves closer scholarly attention.
 
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Program
27 juin 2019
 
08h30
- Accueil des participants
 
Ouverture du colloque
09h00
- Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne nouvelle, Directrice de "Mondes iranien et indien") et Maria Szuppe (CNRS, Directrice adjointe de "Mondes iranien et indien")
 
09h15
- Amr Ahmed (Inalco), Julie Duvigneau (Inalco), Yassaman Khajehi (Université Clermont Auvergne), Justine Landau (Harvard University)
 
Panel 1 : "Conte, oralité et roman ‘semi-populaire’ dans l’Iran médiéval"
 
09h30
- Mario Casari (Université de Rome “La Sapienza”)
Les Qeṣaṣ al-anbiyā’ comme genre persan semi-populaire: quelques réflexions
 
10h00
- Yuriko Yamanaka (Musée National d’Ethnologie d’Osaka)
Witness of Wonders: Fragmented, Recycled, and Reorganized Alexander Narrative in Mediaeval Persian Encyclopaedia
 
10h30
- Julia Rubanovich (Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem)
Telling a Different Story: Narrative Shifts in a Medieval Persian Folk Dāstān
 
11h00 Pause-café
 
Panel 2 : Nezami : romances de la réécriture
 
11h30
- Gabrielle van den Berg (Université de Leiden)
Early Persian verse romances in motaqāreb: form, structure, contents
 
12h00
- Marc Toutant (CNRS, CETOBAC)
Réécrire la geste de Bahrām Gūr : les enjeux narratifs d’un récit-cadre
 
12h30
- Christine van Ruymbeke (Université de Cambridge)
Nezami’s narrative takes a jump through the looking glass into intellectual
wonderland
 
13h00 Déjeuner
 
Panel 3 : Le meurtre du père : nouveaux classiques de la modernité
 
14h30
- Christoph Werner (Université Philipps de Marburg / Université Otto-Friedrich de Bamberg)
Intertextuality and Subversion: Nezami in Modern Persian Literature
 
15h00
- Julie Duvigneau (INaLCO)
Hedâyat, l’émergence d’un nouveau classique dans le sang
 
15h30
- Kamran Talattof (Université d’Arizona)
There is No Such a Thing as a Popular Novel: Iranian Women’s Narrative as
Resistance
 
16h00 Pause café
 
Conférence plénière
16h30
- Angelo Michele Piemontese (Université de Rome “La Sapienza”)
Une piste latine sur la route des ouvrages narratifs persans
 
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Panel 4 : La narration persane à l’épreuve des représentations
 
09h00
- Christian Biet (Université Paris Nanterre) & Yassaman Khajehi (Université Clermont Auvergne)
Du rituel à la performance : le spectacle en Iran aujourd’hui
 
09h30
- Agnès Devictor (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Cinéma iranien et mise en abîme
 
10h00
- Alice Bombardier (EHESS / CADIS)
La figuration narrative dans la peinture murale de la mosquée de Khorramshahr
 
10h30
- Table Ronde – Modérateur : Asal Bagheri (Université Paris Descartes)
 
11h00 Pause café
 
Panel 5 : Toute la vérité : histoire(s) de la première personne
 
11h30
- Michele Bernardini (Université de Naples “L’Orientale”)
Exempla de vérisme timouride
 
12h00
- Christine Nölle-Karimi (Académie des Sciences d’Autriche)
“We Bought Some Watermelons and Ate Them”: A Matter-of-Fact Approach to
Pilgrimage
 
12h30
- Oliver Bast (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)
On the Use and Abuse of Life(s) for History: Life-Writing Narratives and the
(Academic) Historiography of Modern Iran
 
13h00 Déjeuner
 
Clôture du colloque
 
14h30
- Hossein Esmaïli Eivanaki (Université de Strasbourg)
Les récits traditionnels en prose persane : définition et évolution
 
15h00
- Discussion générale et conclusion
 
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Scientific Organisation
- Amr Ahmed, Maître de Conférences en langue et littérature kurdes sorani, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, "Mondes iranien et indien" (FRE2018, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE)
- Julie Duvigneau, Maître de Conférences en langue et littérature persanes, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, "Mondes iranien et indien" (FRE2018, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE)
- Yassaman Khajehi, Maître de Conférences en Études Théâtrales, Université Clermont Auvergne, Centre d’Histoire "Espaces et Cultures" (CHEC)
- Justine Landau, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University