Conference
3 November 2007
Parlor Room, MSU Union
No registration is necessary
| 8:30-8:45am |
Welcome: Emine Evered (Michigan State University)
Opening Remarks
- Lou Anna Simon, President, Michigan State University
- Mohammed Ayoob, Director, Muslim Studies Program, MSU
- Jeffrey M. Riedinger, Dean, International Studies and Programs, MSU
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| 8:45-10:45am |
Session 1 - Religious Imageries in Rumi's Writings: Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University), Chair
- Alan Godlas (University of Georgia), Psychological & Spiritual Transformation in Rumi's Mathnawi
- Ahmet Karamustafa (Washington University), Speaker, Voice, & Audience in the Qur'an & the Masnavi
- Jawid Mojaddedi (Rutgers University), Prophets, Saints, & Revelation in Rumi's World-view
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| 10:45-11:00am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-1:00 pm |
Session 2 - Rumi & Gender: Najib Hourani (Michigan State University), Chair
- Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa (Washington University), The poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred in Rumi's Fihi ma fih
- Aisha Geissinger (Michigan State University), Sufi Women, "Orthodoxy," and Hadith-Transmission
- Mahdi Tourage (Colgate University), Rumi & the Language of Eroticism
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| 1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00-3:30pm | Session 3 - Contemporary Adaptations of Rumi's Work & World-view: Norman Graham (Michigan State University), Chair
- Mahmood Karimi-Hakak (Siena College), Rumi & the Contemporary Stage
- Kyle Evered (Michigan State University), Rumi in the Turkic World: Old Images & New Symbols
- Ömer Turan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Rumi Tradition in Turkey and the Balkans from Past to Present
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| 3:45-4:30pm | Closing Conversations
- Jyotnsa Singh (Michigan State University) & All Panelists
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| 5:30-7:00 pm |
Reception & Dinner (by invitation only) |
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