Conferences and Workshops

This conference explores financial actors and capitalist expansion in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to 20th centuries. Panels will examine debt and credit networks across local to global scales, addressing their structure, forms of trust, and the roles of identity, state institutions, public finance, and legal systems and instruments in this process.

At the interface of Self and Other, what theories of the lyric subject are elaborated in Persian literature, both medieval and modern? What are the philosophical foundations underlying discussions of poetic practice and how do these practices in turn affect our understanding of an individual poetics? Is there a point where poetics turns into ethics? And how do we, as members of the Western academy, justify our critical practice with regard to a tradition to which we are, in essence, peripheral?