Date/Time
Date(s) - 8 Dec 2011
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location
Rutgers University - Van Dyck Hall
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Rutgers Program in Medieval Studies announces a lecture by Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Professor of English and Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) on “World Literature in the Medieval Frame”
Murray Hall room 302 with refreshments to follow
Suzanne Akbari is a scholar of medieval literature with special interests in its intersection with science and philosophy and in its global contexts. She is the author of Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (2004) and Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 (2009); co-editor of Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West (2008) and of the forthcoming Persistence of Philology: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History; and volume editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, volume B: 100-1500.
For more information please visit http://medieval-studies.rutgers.edu or email program director Samantha Kelly at [email protected]