Programme 9:00-9:30
Coffee and Registration
9:30-10:00
Welcoming and Opening Remarks DR LEONARD LEWISOHN (IAIS, University of Exeter)
10:00-11:00
Chair: Dr Leonard Lewisohn DR HOSSEIN ELAHI GHOMSHEI (Independent Scholar, Former Director of the National Library of Iran) Keynote Address: Denizens of the Realm of Gold: A Sojourn among some Immortal Mediæval Persian Poets (Sa‘di, Hafiz, Jami…)
11:00-12:00
DR MAJDODDIN KEYVANI (Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran, Iran) New Research & Publications on Classical Persian Literature and Poetry in Iran: the Last 35 Years
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Chair: Dr Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab DR LEONARD LEWISOHN The Major Significance of Minor Persian Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
2:00-3:00
PROF ALIREZA KORANGY (University of Virginia) Yayan: The Fifteenth Century, the Proto-thematic and the Proto-rhetorical ‘Split Second’ before the Maktab-i Vuqu‘