Evening Cultural Events
3 November 2007
Gold Rooms A & B, MSU Union
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7:00-7:10pm | Introductory Remarks Paulette Granberry Russell, Director, Office for Inclusion & Intercultural Initiative, MSU |
7:10-7:30pm | Keynote Address Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa (Washington University), As the Sun Grows on the Eastern Horizon: Rumi's Place in our Global World 1 |
7:30-7:45pm | Intermission |
7:45-9:00pm | Poetry Reading Coleman Barks, with accompanying musicians Glen Velez (world percussion) and David Darling (cello) |
9:00-9:30pm | Whirling Dervishes & traditional Sufi music played on various traditional instruments (oud, tambour, kaval, kudum, and tar |
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1 "As the sun grows on the eastern horizon" is a verbatim translation of a Rumi verse in which the sun is likened to a flower but one that grows everyday.