Talk: "Say, Man, What do you Love?" Persian Poetry and the Varieties of Amorous Experience by Richard (Dick) Davis

• Event Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
• Time: 4:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series

An anonymous scholar once remarked: “Greek literature is about freedom, Persian literature is about love.” One interpretation of this comment is that Greek literature is about the autonomous individual, whereas Persian literature is about the individual in relation to something or someone outside of the self, without which that individual is incomplete. This something or someone can take myriad forms, and we will look at some of them, ranging from the divine to the romantic and even the obscene.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in conjunction with the Center for Translation Studies, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Linguistics, Department of Religion, Iranian Cultural Association, Program in Comparative and World Literature, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Spurlock Museum, and the University Library.