BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260403T183759EDT-0303FdzF7m@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260403T223759Z DESCRIPTION:Professor Setrag Manoukian\, McGill University\, will speak on Towards a Poetic Sociology of Iran\n\nHosted on Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom. us/j/83063358021\n1:30 PM EST (UTC-5).\n\nThe Keenan Chair of Interfaith S tudies and the James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy are collaborat ing in a reflection on religion\, Islam\, and cosmopolitanism associated w ith McGill’s academic tradition of Islamic Studies\, and epitomized by sch olars such as Wilfred Cantwell Smith\, Fazlur Rahman\, and Toshihiko Izuts u.\n\nIn preparation for the Keenan Conference on World Religions and Glob alization\, to be held in Montreal in May 2022\, 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 br oader views of history and society\, including the Western colonial constr uction of the “Middle East” as the cradle not just of Islam but of all Abr ahamic religions.\n\nThe sixth speaker in the series will be Prof. Setrag Manoukian\, McGill University. The title of the lecture\, which will be fo llowed by a Q&A\, is Towards a Poetic Sociology of Iran\n\nAbstract: Poetr y 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 t he world at large\; however\, media and scholarly narratives often see an essential connection between Iranians and their poems\, and use these text s to explain Iranian politics\, morality\, and the self. A variant of this approach considers poetry as a pivotal expression of political dissent an d existential angst.\n\nAs a counterpoint to these narratives\, this talk analyses the power of poetry in Iran by examining the constitutive relatio nship between poetry and social configurations in light of contemporary po etic practice in the city of Shiraz. Instead of a sociology of Iranian poe try\, I propose a poetic sociology of Iran.\n\n \n\nProf. Setrag Manoukian is an anthropologist interested in knowledge and its relationship with po wer\, understood both as existential and social force. He approaches citie s\, poems\, videos and other technologies as forms of knowledge with speci fic existential trajectories and attends to their historicity. His special area is Iran. He is looking for ways to pursue Giambattista Vico’s combin ation of anthropology and philology.\n DTSTART:20210310T183000Z DTEND:20210310T200000Z SUMMARY:ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion - Setrag Manoukian URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/channels/event/reorienting-globa l-study-religion-setrag-manoukian-328203 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR