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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Feb 16: Public Lecture: Jeannie Miller (Univ of Toronto)
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SUMMARY:Feb 16: Public Lecture: Jeannie Miller (Univ of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:<p align="center"><strong></strong></p><p align="center">The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations presents:</p><p align="center"><strong>Dr. Jeannie Miller</strong></p><p align="center">Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations<br> University of Toronto</p><p align="center"> "<strong>Exceptions and Wonders: Rhetoric and al-Jahiz's Natural Science"</strong></p><p align="center"> Tuesday, February 16, 4:00 p.m.</p><p align="center">6 Divinity Avenue, room 201</p><p>The ninth-century polymath al-Jahiz has, in his cultural afterlife, acquired two personae: the impish and sophistic author employing the rhetorical genre of “debating the merits” of various objects, and the passionate theologian who pursued natural science as a component of theology.  Integrating these elements of al-Jahiz’s output, this talk will examine the argumentative and performative strategies within the rhetorical debates he narrates in <em>Kitāb al-</em><em>Ḥ</em><em>ayawān </em>(Book of Animals). I will ask how he thought rhetoric produced knowledge of natural science, and why exceptional, shocking, and extreme creatures figure so prominently.</p>
LOCATION:6 Divinity Ave., #201
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