Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani is an Assistant Professor in the World Literature Programme, Simon Fraser University. She holds a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California, Berkley. Her teaching interests involve interconnections of literature and philosophy, with particular emphasis on the semiotics of translation. Her current research includes Goethe's conception of World Literature in light of his reading of Hafez. She also explores Nietzsche's understanding of Zoroastrianism as it appears in his notations and in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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Quest and Conquest
About the Workshop
✳ Organizing Committee
✳ Sponsors
✳ Previous workshops, and background information:
20091971-2008 (under construction)
Plenary Speaker
Michael Barry
Princeton University;
Keynote Address: "The Moor of Venice: Averroes and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art"
Princeton University;
Consultant to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on Islamic Art and Museum Issues
Keynote Address: "The Moor of Venice: Averroes and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art"
→ 1.00 p.m. on Friday 15 October, Green College
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PRACTICALITIES
LINKS
The University of British Columbia
SPONSORS
UBC:
UBC FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENTS:
✳ English
✳ History
SFU:
VANCOUVER:
LINKS: IMAGE GALLERIES
✥ "Knots in Traditional Art," Wikimedia Commons
✥ Qantara: Patrimoine méditerranéen: Traversées d'Orient et d'Occident
✥ "World's Top Ten Greatest Ceilings," SkyscraperCity Architecture Forums
