Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) Spring Lecture Series
For the second lecture of the Spring 2019 NELC Department Lecture Series, we are welcoming Dr. Cameron Cross, Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Cross will present his lecture, Salvation Through Sin: How a Queen Rewrote the Rules of Romance.
This talk offers an exciting fresh perspective on the Medieval Persian Romance of Vis & Râmin, demonstrating its rich intertextual tradition, one that developed and traveled in and across languages like Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, Georgian, and other European vernaculars over the first millennium CE. By manipulating romantic conventions into the paradox of where the heroine must choose adultery to prove her virtue, Vis & Râmin probes the coherence of its own world-view, opening new possibilities for moral complexity and individual choice within its framework.
The talk should be accessible to a wide range of audience in Classics, NELC, and other scholars of literature
