The conference venue is Boole Lecture Theatre 2 and will run from 9am -6pm.  Members of the public are invited to attend any part of or all of the conference and admission is free.  For further details, please contact Professor Grace Neville, vpteachingandlearning@ucc.ie

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Panel I: Comparative Legends
Chair: Grace Neville, UCC
Iran and Erin: Gorgani’s Viseh and Béroult’s Iseut
Richard Davis, Ohio State University
Parallel Heroic Themes in the Old Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley and the Classical Persian Book of Kings
Olga Davidson, Boston University
Building Bulls and Crafting Cows: Indo-European Narratives of Bovine Fabrication
John McDonald, Cornell University
The Conqueror Worm in Irish and Persian Tradition
Joseph Nagy, UCLA
Discussant

Lunch break

Panel II: Literary Encounters
Chair: Fan Hong, UCC
The Wilde Iran: Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, Ancient Iran, and Irish Nationalist Historiographies
Mansour Bonakdarian, Independent Scholar
Orientalism and Persian Poetry in Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
Oliver Scharbrodt, UCC
The Irish and Iranians in Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun:  Sharing Poetic Sensitivity and Misery
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas
Discussant

Panel III: Socio-Cultural Encounters
Chair: Houchang Chehabi
Collecting for the ‘Dublin Museum’:  Robert Murdoch Smith and the Acquisition of Artefacts in Qajar Iran
Moya Carey,Victoria and Albert Museum, London
An Irishwoman in Tehran (1849-53)
Brendan McNamara, UCC
Gendered Images and Women’s Rights in Iran and Ireland
Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College, Dublin
Melanie Hoewer, University College, Dublin
Discussant: Ali Ansari, University of St. Andrews

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