Conferences - ISIS 5th Biennial Meeting, 2004

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At the 2004 International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) Fifth Biennial Meeting, on May 28-30, in Bethesda, Maryland, Ilex Foundation hosted a panel entitled “The Rhetoric of Biography: Narrating Lives Through Prefaces, Chronicles, and Scripts.”

Chair

Louise Marlowe, Wellesley College

Discussant

Mohsen Ashtiany, Columbia University

Paper topics and presenters

Olga M. Davidson, Brandeis University

“Life in the Beginnings”

Amir Mahallati, McGill University

“The Self and the World in the History of the World-Conqueror”

Michael Cooperson, University of California at Los Angeles

“Imam Riza and al-Ma’mun on Iranian Television”

Stephen Dale, Ohio State University

Biography and Individuality: The Case of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, 1483-1530.

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