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Rumi Teach-In at Texas
February 6-9, 2010
UT Austin |
Hosted by Students in UT’s Rumi’s Poetry and the Persian Sufi Tradition
Course
and Rumi Persian Texts Graduate Seminar. Cosponsored by Society of
Iranian-American Women in Austin and Persepolis Institute. Arrangements
by Annette Noorzad.
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Session 1: |
Saturday, February 6, 3-6 pm, Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.302)
The Exordium to Rumi’s Spiritual Couplets:
An Explication de texte by Michael Craig Hillmann
Readings from Rumi’s Poetry (in Persian) by Bijan Afkhami
Rumi’s World: A Lecture (in Persian) by Bahram Moshiri
Moderator: Ahmad Fatehi |
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Session 2: |
Sunday, February 7, 12 noon
From Rumi to Sohrab Sepehri’s The Sound of Water’s Footsteps
A Round Table Discussion (in Persian) over Lunch (location to
announced) |
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Session 3: |
Monday, February 8, 5-7 pm, Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.302).
The Mystery of Rumi’s Religion: A Lecture by Koorosh Angali
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Session 4: |
Tuesday, February 9, 9-11:30 am, Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.402)
A Panel of Student and Faculty Papers (to be announced)
Moderator: to be announced |
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Session 5: |
Tuesday, February 9, 6-8 pm, Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.302)
Music and Poetry by Hadi Farasat and Friends |
AVAYA Auditorium (ACE 2.302) is in the
Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building (ACE) on the UT
Austin campus at 201 East 24th Street (southeast corner of Speedway and
24th). For directions, including parking options, google “AVAYA
Auditorium Parking.”
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