Lawforms Workshop 2019: Manuals, Stylebooks, and Formularies for Persianate Legal Documents
8-10 July 2019, Hotel Du Vin and Bistro, Magdalen Street, Exeter EX2 4HY
We are preparing for our upcoming workshop; here is the draft programme. This is a project team-centred event, but we have space for a few more people; if you can read Persian, and would like to read manuals for fun, do get in touch! N.Chatterjee@exeter.ac.uk
Working Programme; will continue to be updated
Day 1 – Monday, 8 July 2019
9:00-10:30 am – Epistolary models and the concept of inshā’
Introductory discussion of aims of workshop
Further discussion of readings on inshā’and related manuals and formularies genres (Paul, Mitchell, Flatt, Horstmann, Deshpande)
10:30-11:00 am– Tea and coffee break
11:00 am-12:30 pm– Modelling Persianate legal documents I
Discussion of selections from inshā’ from Iran or Central Asia (TBD)
12:30-2:00 pm– Lunch at conference venue
2:00-3:30 pm –Modelling Persianate legal documents II
Discussion of selections from Manāẓir al-Inshā’, ed. Ma’dankan, pp. 185-7, 192-3, 219
3:30-4:00 pm– Tea and coffee break
4:00-5:30 pm– Modelling Persianate legal documents III
Discussion of selections from Inshā’-yi Harkaran, ed. Balfour, pp. 162-75
6:30-8:30 pm– Conference-sponsored dinner at local restaurant
Day 2 – Tuesday, 9 July 2019
9:00-10:30 am– Numeracy and accounting
Discussion of selections from Khulāṣat al-Siyāq
10:30-11:00 am– Tea and coffee break
11:00 am-12:30 pm– Hybrid manuals I
Discussion of selections from Mughal dastūr al-ʿamal (BL or Richards?)
12:30-2:00 pm– Lunch at conference venue
2:00-3:30 pm– Hybrid manuals II
Discussion of selections from Alwar colonial dastūr al-ʿamal from APRI
3:30-4:00 pm– Tea and coffee break
4:00-5:30 pm– Indic-language manuals
Presentation on Marathi manuals by Dominic Vendell, Lawforms Project
Presentation on Rajasthani/Hindi manuals by Elizabeth Thelen, Lawforms Project
6:30-8:30 pm– Conference-sponsored dinner at local restaurant
Day 3 – Wednesday, 10 July 2019
10:30 am-12:30 pm– Grammars and dictionaries
Discussion of RAS Tod 173 (Persian facetious dictionary) and Thanjavur Marathi grammar led by Lawforms team
12:30-2:00 pm– Lunch at conference venue
2:00-3:30 pm– Group discussion of workshop insights and future goals
3:30-4:00 pm– Tea and coffee break
4:00-5:30 pm– Further project-related conversation and planning