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Das Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Veranstaltungen
Donnerstag, 09.02.2023, 12:00 UhrForschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität
Fellow Kolloquium
Nojang Khatami (Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies)
»Travel and the Poetics of Dissent: Migrations of Hafez through Iran and the West«
Abstract
One of the main challenges to getting non-Western ideas right on their own terms is sufficient attention to context and the ways ideas change as they travel. This presentation considers how poetic works with political undertones can inform different kinds of resistance and world-building as they migrate geographically and temporally. It argues that acknowledging context—historical, intellectual, and cultural—is crucial for a deeper appreciation of the intentions and transformative potentialities of narratives across time and space. To make this case, I employ the example of the 14th century Sufi thinker and poet Shams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hafez, comparing uses of his ideas by Western interpreters like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ralph Waldo Emerson to those of political dissidents in contemporary Iran. In particular, I examine how uses of Hafez in women’s poetry circles in the Islamic Republic demonstrate tones of democratic agency that can be better grasped if they are contextualised within the worldly texts and actions from which they spring. This extension of a culturally situated and historically attuned approach, I maintain, generates better possibilities for appreciating non-Western theories according to their own self-understandings and intentions.
Der Redner
Nojang Khatami hat 2021 an der University of British Columbia mit einer Arbeit über »Rewriting the People: Narrative, Exilic Thinking, and Democratic Agency beyond the West« promoviert. Im akademischen Jahr 2022/23 ist er auf Einladung des an der Goethe-Universität angesiedelten Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies Postdoctoral Fellow am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.
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