The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present a talk by Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi on her new book, Subjectivity in ʿAṭṭār, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (Purdue University Press, 2017), on January 29, 2018, at the UNC FedEx Global Education Center.
By looking at ʿAṭṭār’s poetry contrapuntally with medieval European literature and modern theory, this talk will map out the ways ʿAṭṭār’s poetry interacts with itself within the Persian cultural and historical framework as well as with medieval European culture and modern Western theoretical perspectives in regard to the concepts of transgression and the breaking of taboos, and the construction of subjectivity. Traversing linguistic, national, and disciplinary boundaries, this talks calls into question the presumed differences between Medieval Islam and the West and makes possible a rich dialogue between civilizations that have historically been pitted against one another.
Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi is Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian Studies and Persian Coordinator in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research subjects include Persian literature, Iranian “woman question,” minorities in Iran, contemporary Middle Eastern literature, diasporic literature, literary theory, and gender and sexuality studies.
The book talk is free and open to the public.
Monday, January 29, 2018 | 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Room 1009, FedEx Global Education Center | UNC Chapel Hill