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On the 800th anniversary of his birth, the Foundation and the British Museum have organised a conference that will focus on the poetic origins, quality, and impact of Rumi's writings, its sources of inspiration, and its echoes in Persian speaking parts of the world near and far.

Organised by
Iran Heritage Foundation and the British Museum.

Convenors
Dr. Leili Anvar Chenderoff & Prof. Fatemeh Keshavarz.

Conference committee
Dr. Leili Anvar Chenderoff, Dr. Sheila Canby, Mr. Farhad Hakimzadeh, Prof. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Dr. Zeynep Sabuncu, Prof. Franklin Lewis, Dr. Pierre Lory, Dr. Alan Williams.

Introduction
Widely admired, translated and commented upon, the works of Jalal al-Din Rumi remain largely unexamined from a literary perspective. Emphasis has been placed on him as a spiritual master, and on his Masnavi as a sacred text. As a result, the poet has often been concealed from view. There is much to be explored and discovered in the poetic legacy of Rumi's entire corpus: his dynamic image-making and his mastery of lyrical expression, his use of poetic devices, including strategies of unsaying or silence, the powerful rhetoric of his narrative structures, and more ...

Topics
While we would welcome papers with fresh topics and approaches, the following are suggestions for core concepts to be used as panel topics:

Rumi on Language: complexity, artistry, and function in poetic language, issues of generic diversity, hybridity (linguistic and generic), intertextuality, image making.
Rumi, Historical Reflections: in the mirror of Persian, Turkish, South Asian, Western, and other - freshly attempted -- biographies.
Rumi, Textual Studies: Study of the manuscripts, philological investigations, critical editions
Rumi the Lyrical Poet: the incorporation and impact of music, tradition and innovation, his sources of inspiration.
Rumi the Storyteller: Masnavi as fiction, Masnavi as pedagogical tool, character formation, voice and narrative structure.
Rumi across Linguistic Traditions: strategies and issues of translating classic texts, an overview of translations of Rumi, ongoing translations of the Masnavi and the Divan.
Rumi Reflected in Arts: recitation, performance to music, oral performance/whirling and Sama, pictorial arts. Studies of the architectural structure of Mevlevi tekkes.
Rumi on Subjectivity and the Self: explorations of the self and selflessness, issues of human agency and individuality, free will and determination, the role of love, the life journey.
Publication of proceedings
The papers presented in the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings, edited by Leili Anvar Chenderoff, Fatemeh Keshavarz and Alan Williams. All papers submitted should therefore be of publishable quality, constitute new work, and reserved to be exclusively published as part of the conference proceedings. No previously published work should be submitted.

Rumi festival
This conference is being organised within the context of the Wondrous Birds: The World of Jalal al-Din Rumi festival, a series of programmes and events which include concerts (both classical and contemporary), exhibitions of works of art as well as photographs, poetry readings, plays, dance performances, educational programmes for adults as well as the younger generation, etc.

Enquiries
The Iran Heritage Foundation, 5 Stanhope Gate, London W1K 1AH. 44 20 74934766 (tel), 44 20 74999293 (fax), info@iranheritage.org.

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Saturday - September 15, 2007

Jasmin and Stars - Discussion and book-signing with the author: Prof. Fatemeh Keshavarz (London)

Jasmin and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran

A discussion with the author:

Prof. Fatemeh Keshavarz

Fatemeh Keshavarz is a scholar, teacher and poet seeking to change the widespread impression that Iran is a stagnant, joyless society populated only by villains and their victims. In her intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, Jasmine and Stars, she introduces us to two modern Iranian women writers whose experiences and work contrast sharply with mainstream Western notions that Iranian women are a helpless, repressed minority. The book also critiques the recent best-seller “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, by Dr Azar Nafisi, which epitomizes what Keshavarz calls the “New Orientalist narrative,” a view marred by stereotype and prejudice more often tied to current geopolitical conflicts than to any real understanding of Iran. Blending in firsthand glimpses of her own life—from childhood memories in 1960s Shiraz to her present life as a professor in America—Keshavarz shares a timely view of Iran’s cultural depth and intellectual complexity.

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

FATEMEH KESHAVARZ is professor of Persian and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. She is author of four previous books, including Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal Al-Din Rumi and a volume of poetry. Keshavarz was born and raised in the city of Shiraz in southwest Iran.

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6th European Conference of Iranian Studies

6th European Conference of Iranian Studies
Tue 18 September 2007 until Sat 22 September 2007

The President and the Board of the Societas Iranologica Europaea have the pleasure to invite you to the 6th Conference of Iranian Studies to be held in Vienna from Tuesday, Sept. 18 to Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and some locations nearby. The conference office will be open on September 18 for registration and information, the programme of the conference proper will start on Wednesday, September 19 in the morning. The conference will be closed on Saturday, September 22.
During the conference papers are to be held within the frame of specific sections and panels. Moreover additional joint programmes will be arranged. See programme for detailed information: this page will be updated regularly. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/ecis6

By end March 2007, after having received the abstracts of the participants, we are able to announce a preliminary conference programme.
We would appreciate your participation and the contribution of a paper.

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