SEP. 29: The City as Anthology

A Book Talk: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan

 

Participants

Author: Kathryn Babaiyan, University of Michigan
Discussant: Subah Dayal, New York University
Moderator: Ali Mirsepassi, New York University

When

September 29, 2022
5-7pm

Where

In Person: Richard Ettinghausen Library at the Hagop Kevorkian Center
255 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012

Zoom: BIT.LY/NYUISI0929

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people’s lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves.