Programme

10:30 E.G. Browne: Scholar Formation and Positionality

• The Ambivalences of E. G. Browne: Identity, Scholarship, and Cross-Cultural Engagement in an Iconic Text (Joanna de Groot, University of York)

• Oriental Despotism to Different Ends: E.G. Browne, Curzon and Persian Constitutionalism (Anne-Sophie Gull, Independent Scholar)

12:00 Intellectual Interlocutors

• The Correspondence between E.G. Browne and the Dutch Orientalists Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje and Michael Jan de Goeje (Gabrielle van den Berg, University of Leiden)

• E. G. Browne and Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney: Correspondence and the Study of the Babi-Baha’i Faiths (Saghar Sadeghian, Willamette University)

15:00 Literary Studies

• Synthesis, Observation, and Affect: Browne’s Multi-Layered Approach to Understanding Hafiz (Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford)

• An “Extraordinary Dearth of Notable Poets”: E.G. Browne and Post-Classical Persian Literature (Shaahin Pishbin, University of Oxford)

16:30 Keynote: Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)