Thursday 17th January, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218

(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)

Monire Taliebakhsh is a PhD candidate in Persian Mystical Literature at Tarbiat Modares University in Iran. She did both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Guilan University in Iran. The title of her master‘s thesis was “Cognition & Metacognition in Rumi‘s couplet-poem (Masnavi)” and the title of her PhD thesis is: “Negativity and Its Role in the Genesis of Mystical I in Persian Literary Texts until the End of the Seventh Century”. It is an interdisciplinary study between Mysticism and Philosophy, especially Phenomenology, which focuses on the problem of identity and self in mystics. All her works and the horizon of her studies combine Persian literature, mysticism and philosophy. She is currently a visiting scholar at Phenomenology Research Center at SIU in order to consult and work with Prof. Anthony J. Steinbock.

Additionally, please note our provisional schedule for the rest of the quarter:

24 January: Saeed Yousef (University of Chicago), “The Uneven Development of Modernity in Persian Poetry”

31 January: TBA

7 February: Ameena Yovan (University of Chicago), “”I see no more companions about me”: Understanding fate and world order in the maqātil of Ḥusayn and the story of Siyāvash”

14 February: Hashem Morvarid (University of Illinois at Chicago), Title TBA

21 February: Shaahin Pishbin (University of Chicago), “From Nishapur to Buenos Aires: Jorge Luis Borges and Persian Literature”

28 February: Hamideh S. Bagherzadeh (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Title TBA

7 March: TBA