Dr. Rob Boddice, Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, is going to deliver a talk titled “Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History,” Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). The Zoom attendance link is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/3239408139. Everyone is welcome!  The talk is going to address the discipline of history’s positionality in the […]

The History Department will host  SHARON FARMER, Professor Emerita (UCSB),  who will present a talk, entitled “Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…”  When: 12:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. Where: HSSB 4020.  The chapter from which Farmer will be reading deals with the time she spent in France in 1979-80, when she first began the research for her […]

Seventeenth century Isfahan witnessed a craze in the composition of a new kind of book, the majmuʿa, or anthology. Curated and written in the domestic sphere of the household, anthologies archive city-writings once in circulation; they illustrate the practices of urban knowledge and their valorization by communities who took possession of them. The imaginations that […]

In recent scholarship, family archives in the form of a manuscript have been posited as sites for more broadly rethinking archives in the pre-modern Islamicate world.In the context of Isfahan, household anthologies provide a particularly rich ground for theorizing and reassessing pre-modern archival mechanisms and spaces. The anthology referred to in Persian as the majmuʿa […]