Taleghani Lecture Series

Eleventh Annual Taleghani Lecture Series

The University of Arizona Department of Linguistics presents: The History of Senses in Persian: Smelling the Past presented by Professor Touraj Daryaee from the University of California, Irvine.

Abstract

Why do ancient sources tell us so much about the infatuation with smell in the ancient Iranian World, and why things and places are remembered through smell in Persian literature and poetry? This presentations discusses the importance and relevance of the history of smell for understanding history, as reflected in the Persian and Iranian sources, from the Avesta to Persian poetics.

This event will be held over Zoom.