Time: 9:30–1:00 PM, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM

Registration 9:00–9:30

Opening 9:30

Session 1: Sailing the Seas and Crossing the Mountains - English and Dutch Travelers

9:35–11:25

Chair: Dr. Elio Brancaforte (Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans)

• Dr. Willem Floor, “Jan Janz. Struys’ Most Unhappy Voyage to Iran” (Independent Scholar, Bethesda, Maryland)
• Mr. Kurosh Meshkat, “The Journey of Master Anthony Jenkinson to Persia, 1562–1563” (Ph.D. Candidate, Queen Mary, University of London)

Coffee Break 11:25–11:40

Session 2: How to Pay and What to Buy – On the Economics and Validation of Traveling

11:40–1:00

Chair: Dr. Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (Department of History, Tufts University)

• Dr. Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Economic Espionage and European Travel to Safavid Iran” (Department of History, Boston College)
• Dr. Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, “Health and Commerce through the Hormuz Straits: The Medicinal Trade between Safavid Persia and the Portuguese Estado da Índia, 1550-1700” (Department of History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

Lunch Break 1:00–2:00

Session 3: Appreciation or Condemnation? Striking the Right Tones: The Challenges of Reporting for Travelers and Hosts

2:00–3:20

Chair: Dr. Abbas Amanat (Dept. of History and International Studies, Yale University, New Haven)

• Dr. Babak Rahimi, “Writing Muharram, Seeing Muharram: The Early Modern European Representation of Shi'i Muharram Rituals of the Safavid period, 1540-1714 C.E.” (Program for the Study of Religion & Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego)
• Dr. Sussan Babaie, “Visual Vestiges of Travel: Persian Windows on European Weaknesses” (Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Coffee Break 3:20–3:40

Session 4: Writing, Painting, Mapping – The Medium’s Impact on the Content and Form of Representation

3:40–5:00

• Dr. Sonja Brentjes, “Immediacy, Mediation, and Media in Early Modern Catholic and Protestant Representations of Safavid Iran” (Department of Philosophy and Logic, University of Seville)

Concluding Remarks: Dr. Nagmeh Sohrabi (Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University)