This video is a recording of a lecture, "Towards a Poetic Sociology of Iran," given by Prof. Setrag Manoukian via Zoom at McGill University on March 10, 2021. Please visit our website for more information about the series, ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion: History, Theory, and Society, upcoming lectures, and our conveners: www.mcgill.ca/...
Series:
The Keenan Chair of Interfaith Studies and the James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy are collaborating in a reflection on religion, Islam, and cosmopolitanism associated with McGill’s academic tradition of Islamic Studies, and epitomized by scholars such as Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Fazlur Rahman, and Toshihiko Izutsu. In preparation for the Keenan Conference on World Religions and Globalization, we are hosting an online lecture series titled ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion: History, Theory, and Society.
While the study of the Islamosphere has stimulated a critical reconceptualization of the notion of religion, we would like to extend this reflection to how religious concepts have been embedded in broader views of history and society, including the Western colonial construction of the “Middle East” as the cradle not just of Islam but of all Abrahamic religions. Some of the lectures will contribute to such reflections also through the foil of the interdisciplinary legacy of Ibn Khaldun, a champion of non-Western thought and precursor of social theory.
Abstract:
Poetry occupies a specific place in Iran’s history, culture and everyday life. This is perhaps no different from other countries in the Middle East or the world at large; however, media and scholarly narratives often see an essential connection between Iranians and their poems, and use these texts to explain Iranian politics, morality, and the self. A variant of this approach considers poetry as a pivotal expression of political dissent and existential angst.
As a counterpoint to these narratives, this talk analyses the power of poetry in Iran by examining the constitutive relationship between poetry and social configurations in light of contemporary poetic practice in the city of Shiraz. Instead of a sociology of Iranian poetry, I propose a poetic sociology of Iran.
Speaker:
Prof. Setrag Manoukian is an anthropologist who teaches at the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He is interested in knowledge and its relationship with power, understood both as existential and social force. He approaches cities, poems, videos and other technologies as forms of knowledge with specific histories and existential trajectories. His research area is Iran. He is the author of City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, history, poetry (Routledge 2012) and other essays on a variety of topics including temporality, audio-vision, publicness and the notion of the impersonal. He has also published an Italian translation and commentary of the ghazals of Sa'di Shirazi L' Argento di un Povero Cuore (Rome 1991).
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