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SUMMARY:A Clash of Empires: The Battle of Çaldiran (1514) and  500 Years 
 of Turco-Iranian Relations
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DESCRIPTION:British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) & MIHAN present:\
 n"A Clash of Empires: The Battle of Çaldiran (1514) and \n500 Years of T
 urco-Iranian Relations"\n\n2014 has been seeing many commemorations of t
 he Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War\, a clash of empires
  which had great implications in the Middle East\, not least and especia
 lly in Persia\, as will be discussed by Dr Oliver Bast in the British In
 stitute of Persian Studies’ Annual Lecture on 27 November 2014 in London
  (see http://bips.ac.uk/ for details). So many World War I-related comme
 morative activities have already taken place during this year and many m
 ore are to come that our colleagues over at the University of Manchester
 ’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages (CIDRAL) 
 have detected a veritable ‘Commemoration Fever’. Thus in a CIDRAL-lectur
 e on 22 October 2014\, Professor Ann Rigney (Chair of Comparative Litera
 ture at the University of Utrecht) will ask ‘Centenaries: What Are They 
 Good For?’ (see http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cidral/events/ for detai
 ls). Rigney notes that in the current commemorative frenzy ‘it sometimes
  seems as if there was never a centenary before.’\nMIHAN\, the Mancheste
 r Iranian History Academic Network\, has the remedy: a Fifth Centenary! 
 Indeed\, for Iranians and in fact for everyone interested in Iran’s hist
 ory\, the year 2014 marks the 500th anniversary of an event of monumenta
 l importance in Iranian history: the Battle of Çald?ran. On 23 August 15
 14\, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I (the Grim) decisively defe
 ated the less-well equipped troops of Shah Ismai’il I. The latter had no
 t only founded the Safavid dynasty a decade before this battle but in so
  doing also\, arguably\, Iran as we know it today. After the disaster of
  this battle\, however\, that very Iran could have been easily ‘wiped of
 f the map’\; or could it? It goes without saying that the clash of 1514 
 is of equal if not higher interest for Turks and those fascinated by Tur
 key’s history\, not least given the recent(ish) turn toward the Middle E
 ast within the foreign policy of the Turkish Republic\, a phenomenon oft
 en (mis-)labelled by Western media as ‘Neo-Ottomanism’.\nThe 1514-battle
  that so violently inaugurated five eventful centuries of Ottoman/Turkis
 h-Iranian relations is a milestone of World History. Please join (MIHAN)
  (www.mihan.uk/) and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) (ht
 tp://bips.ac.uk/) to mark its 500th anniversary.\nAn expert panel of his
 torians of the Ottoman Empire and of Iran will assess the significance o
 f the event and its legacy.\n\n
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LOCATION:6.207\, University Place\, Manchester
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