Nostalgia for the Future: Poetics of Occultation
Date
Thu May 25th 2017, 12:00pm
Location
Building 70, Room 72A1
Colloquium with Ahoo Najafian, PhD student in Religious Studies. For Religious Studies faculty, graduate students, and Stanford-affiliated guests.
This paper looks at appropriations of the 14th-century poet Hafez in the 20th-century Iran as the voice of mystical Shi’ism.
Open to Stanford Affiliates only