Defining the Persianate The Comparative Persianate Aesthetics Symposium (Boston University, September 28-29, 2017) Alison Terndrup and Hyunjin Cho | November 15, 2017 Muslim Literatures Visual Culture About Muslim Literatures How do we characterize the “fuzzy, but generally definable” cultural realm of the “Persianate”? Over the course of two days, scholars gathered together for the symposium to think about how current scholarship uses the “fuzzy, but generally definable” term “Persianate.” The discussions centered on the language and aesthetics of poetry and visual works. Speakers treated topics that allowed for detailed examination of modes of cultural exchange, movement of objects, and early modern itineraries within the conceptual frameworks of translation, imitation, hybridity, and innovation... Read the rest of this entry