February 19-20, 2009
University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL

Rachel Gibson, a doctoral candidate in French at the U of Minnesota, will be presenting a paper on her work on parallels between Persian poetry and troubadour poetry. The conference includes a keynote address by Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor, University of Chicago entitled “Mysticism, Longing and the Erotic in the Writings of 13th-century Sufi Master Ibn al-Arabi.”