Fifty Shades of Green: The Islamicate Art of Seduction
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Great Lakes Adiban Society
Organizer Name
Cameron Cross
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Presider Name
Cameron Cross
Paper Title 1
"We bade farewell in Kashgar": Sa'di's Geopoetics of Seduction and Nostalgia
Presenter 1 Name
Domenico Ingenito
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Paper Title 2
Between Melancholia and Masochism: The Devil's Love for God in the Persian Sufi Tradition
Presenter 2 Name
Abolfazl Moshiri
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Paper Title 3
Wrestling's Rose: Youngmanhood, Heteroglossia, and Seduction in a Late Safavid Masnavi
Presenter 3 Name
Nathan L. M. Tabor
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Western Michigan Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2019 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1350
Description
Fifty Shades of Green: The Islamicate Art of Seduction calls for papers on the bodily, social, and epistemic dilemmas intrinsic to erotic relationships. It is common (in both sources and scholarship) to consider love as “given” after the fact, a product of innate disposition or the will of heaven, but we suggest that greater attention to the manifold processes that culminate in love’s fruition (or failure) will open up broader inquiries into the conception, mediation, and regulation of desire through social and political networks. How is desire accounted for in medical and philosophical thought, and what are the tools and stratagems available for its management? How do such solutions interact with, or possibly upset, broader codes of sociability and publicity? What are the non-human, subliminal, social, and structural agents at work in the act of seduction? By raising these and other questions, this panel aims to break down the barrier between scientia sexualis and ars erotica by closely reading the settings, both literary and historical, in which pre-modern authors construct competitive tensions, productive ambiguities, and normative ideals for the enactment of erotic love.
Fifty Shades of Green: The Islamicate Art of Seduction
Schneider 1350
Fifty Shades of Green: The Islamicate Art of Seduction calls for papers on the bodily, social, and epistemic dilemmas intrinsic to erotic relationships. It is common (in both sources and scholarship) to consider love as “given” after the fact, a product of innate disposition or the will of heaven, but we suggest that greater attention to the manifold processes that culminate in love’s fruition (or failure) will open up broader inquiries into the conception, mediation, and regulation of desire through social and political networks. How is desire accounted for in medical and philosophical thought, and what are the tools and stratagems available for its management? How do such solutions interact with, or possibly upset, broader codes of sociability and publicity? What are the non-human, subliminal, social, and structural agents at work in the act of seduction? By raising these and other questions, this panel aims to break down the barrier between scientia sexualis and ars erotica by closely reading the settings, both literary and historical, in which pre-modern authors construct competitive tensions, productive ambiguities, and normative ideals for the enactment of erotic love.