2022 Chamberlain Memorial Lecture
The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Horizon Hall, 3008
Please join the 2022 Chamberlain Memorial Lecture presented by the Modern and Classical Languages Department.
Dr. Stetkevych is a Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic Literature form The University of Chicago (1981) and taught for many years at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focusses on the ritual-structural and performative aspects of classical Arabic qaṣīdah poetry, from pre-Islamic times through the neo-classical poetry of the early 20th century, and on post-classical madīḥ nabawī praise poems to the Prophet Muḥammad.
Title: The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: The Poetics of Mourning and Memory in Two Elegies by Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 1057 CE)
This lecture will explore the poetics of mourning and memory in two contrasting elegies by the blind Late ʿAbbāsid poet Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī: one for a nearly anonymous Ḥanafī faqīh, identified only as Abū Ḥamzah; the other for al-Sharīf Abū Ṭāhir al-Musāwī, the father of the two most influential poet-scholars and political figures of Būyid Baghdād, al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā.
The lecture will be live-streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YplEz1E6kqQ
