Hafiz and The School of Love in Classical Persian Poetry

6.00-8.00 Opening reception for 'Ten Poems by Hafiz' an exhibition of works by Jila Peacock

DAY 1: HAFIZ AND THE 'RELIGION OF LOVE' (MADHHAB-I 'ISHQ) IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE

9:00-10:00 Coffee and Registration

10:00-11:00 DR. HUSAYN ILAHI-GHOMSHEI (University of Tehran)
First Keynote Address:
The 'Religion of Love' in Classical Persian Poetry, with Special Reference to the Divans of Sa'di and Hafiz

11:00-12:00 ALI ASGHAR SEYED-GHORAB (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
The Erotic Spirit: Mystical and Romantic Love (ishq-i haqiqi va majazi) in Persian Poetry from Nizami to Hafiz

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 DR. NASROLLAH POURJAVADY (University of Tehran)
The Idea of Love in Hafiz and Ahmad Ghazali

2:30-3:30 DR. LEILI ANVAR-CHENDEROFF (Sorbonne, Paris)
The Radiance of Epiphany: Beauty and Love in the Divan of Hafiz

3:30-4:00 Coffee/tea

4:00-5:00 PROF. JAMES MORRIS (Boston College)
The Transfiguration of Love: Participation and Perspective-Shifts in the Ghazals of Hafiz

5:00-6:00 DR. PARVIN LOLOI (Independent Scholar)
Reflections of Hafiz in English and American Poetry of the Ninteenth Century

DAY 2: HAFIZ'S SCHOOL OF LOVE IN LITERARY HISTORY, COMMENTARIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIVAN

10:00-11:00 PROFESSEUR CHARLES-HENRI DE FOUCHÉCOUR (Professeur emerite de l'Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle; Paris III)
Second Keynote Address:
Some Distinctive Traits that Explain the Pre-eminence of Hafiz Over Other Grand Poets of His Century

11:00-12:00 PROF. FRANKLIN LEWIS (University of Chicago)
Semiotics of the Dawn in the Poetry of Hafiz

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 PROF. CARL W. ERNST (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Hafiz and Jalal al-Din Dawwani (d. 907/1501)

2:30-3:30 DARYOUSH ASHOURI (Independent Scholar)
The Development of the Culture of the Spiritual Rake (farhang-e rindi) in Persian Love Mysticism: A Study of Rashid al-Din Maybudi's Myths of Adam and Satan and Their Epiphany in Hafiz's Poetry

3:30-4:00 Coffee/tea

4:00-5:00 DR. LEONARD LEWISOHN (University of Exeter)
Witnessing the Icon of Beauty (shahid-bazi): A Study of Hafiz's Metaphysics of Romance

5:00-6:00 DR. MICHAEL BARRY (Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.)
Tongue and Mirror of the Unseen World: The Vision of Hafiz in Timurid and Safavid Persian Painting

6:00-6:45 Concluding Remarks: PETER AVERY (Cambridge University)
The Translation and Study of the Divan of Hafiz in the West