Perin Gürel, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' A. Orr Fantasy Award recipient, invites you to a book launch and panel discussion of Laleh and the Language of the Birds -- a middle-grade eco-feminist retelling of the twelfth-century Sufi classic, The Conference of the Birds.
Book Launch and Panel Discussion
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Sojourner Truth Commons
300 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Reception to follow
About the Author
Perin Gürel is associate professor of American Studies and concurrent associate professor of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research and teaching explore the United States in the world and the world in the United States through transnational feminist lenses, with a special focus on U.S.-Middle East relations after World War I.
Professor Gürel has held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Institute of Turkish Studies, the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Advisory Network for the Yale Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion. She is also a faculty fellow affiliated with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at Notre Dame in the Keough School of Global Affairs.
Sponsors
Sponsored by the Gender Studies Program in the College of Arts and Letters and the Southwest Asian and Northwest Africa (SWANA) Working Group in the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs.