The Great Lakes Adiban hosted two panels at the 2019 International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The following papers were presented:

199. Fifty Shades of Green: The Islamicate Art of Seduction

  • “We bade farewell in Kashgar”: Sa’di’s Geopoetics of Seduction and Nostalgia: Domenico Ingenito, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
  • Between Melancholia and Masochism: The Devil’s Love for God in the Persian Sufi Tradition: Abolfazl Moshiri, Univ. of Toronto
  • Wrestling’s Rose: Youngmanhood, Heteroglossia, and Seduction in a Late Safavid Masnavi: Nathan L. M. Tabor, Western Michigan Univ.

258. Inscribed Bodies, Etched Surfaces: The Written and Unwritten in the Medieval Islamicate World

  • Kitāb al-Istikmāl: Architecture as Invisible Text at the Aljafería Palace: Alexandria Brown-Hedjazi, Stanford Univ., Edwards Memorial Travel Award Winner
  • Doing Things with (God’s) Words: Self-Authentication in the Masnavi-e Ma’navi of Jalal al-din Rumi: Matthew B. Lynch, Bard College