Student Diversity Events

Location

Tyler Hall, Room 102

"One of the most challenging questions framing histories of friendship is how properly to historicize the different valences of intimacy that bound together friends living in previous centuries. In the spirit of John Boswell I will talk about mostly male friendships in seventeenth-century Iran. Like same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe, sworn friendship in Iran was a form of voluntary kinship- a bond with religious overtones - that served the social needs of advancement in politics and commerce through the broadening of the family network. As such, they?rivaled?and competed with matrimony and blood kinship." Reception to follow: {{https://events.wm.edu/event/view/history/28906,https://events.wm.edu/event/view/history/28906}}.

Contact

For more information contact: Steve Otto 7572212496 [[w|scotto]]