Saturday February 5
9:00 Opening Remarks
9:10-10:00 Frank Lewis
Emory University
Reading over Rumi's Shoulder:  Mowlana's Adaptation of Some Literary Models
10:00-10:50 Fatemeh Keshavarz
Washington University in St. Louis
The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred in Rumi's Fihi Ma Fih
11:10-12:00 Ahmet Kara-Mustafa
Washington University in St. Louis
Authorial Voice in the Qur'an and the Masnavi
12:00-12:50 Nargis Virani
Washington University in St. Louis
Rumi's Masnavi: A Persian Qur'an?
12:50-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:20 Gholamreza Aavani
Iranian Institude of Philosophy
Rumi and Love
2:20-3:10 Mahdi Tourage
University of Toronto
Gender Identity in the Masnavi of Rumi
3:10-3:20 Coffee and Tea
3:20-4:10 Maria Subtelney
University of Toronto
The Scent of the Rose: The Olfactory as a Modality of Spiritial Perception in the Poetry of Rumi
4:10-4:30 Open Discussion and Retrospection
7:30 An Evening of spiritual music with Lian Ensemble
Ticket: $30; Location: Matthews Auditorium, Kaneff Centre-UTM