Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
9 March–1 July 2012
The free exhibition Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond celebrates the beauty of Persian manuscripts and the stories of human and divine love told through their pages from the early 11th century on.
Many of the manuscripts on show have been loaned from the world-renowned collection of the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford; other exhibits are rare works from the State Library of Victoria and other Australian collections.
To coincide with the exhibition the two-day conference, Love and devotion: Persian cultural crossroads, will be held at State Library of Victoria from Thursday 12 until Saturday 14 April, 2012.
This cross-disciplinary conference will explore cultural convergences in literature, art and architecture, history and philosophy from the time of Firdausi in the early 11th century to the present day, within the various Persian empires, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India and Europe.
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Charles Melville – University of Cambridge
- Dr Stefano Carboni – Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Dr Zahra Taheri – Australian National University
- Dr Mammad Aidani – University of Melbourne
- Dr Barbara Brend – independent scholar, London
For more details, including the conference program and to register, please visit the conference website: http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/love-and-devotion/conference.