Faculty House, Columbia University
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University Arabic Studies Seminar, Brill Academic Publishers, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Department of Culture & Tourism, Abu Dhabi)
This event is at full capacity. Limited virtual seats are available here. Please note that virtual participants will not be able to comment during the Q&A.
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society is proud to present Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism. This event will be held in-person at Columbia University at the Italian Academy (December 14) and Faculty House (December 15-16).
This event is also co-sponsored by Columbia University Arabic Studies Seminar, Brill Academic Publishers, and theSheikh Zayed Book Award (Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Department of Culture & Tourism, Abu Dhabi).
The program for the event can be found below.
Day 3: Friday – Dec 16 – Columbia Faculty House
9:00 – 10.45 am
Panel 7: Revisionist Critiques and Criticisms from the Nahda and Onwards
Chairperson: TBD
Haifa Saud al-Faysal (King Saud University)
ʾINTIQĀD IN EARLY MODERN ARABIC LITERARY THOUGHT
C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University)
Family Matters: Oedipus, Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm, and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Parallel Geographies of Palestinian Literature
Francesca Maria Corrao (Luiss University Rome)
On “Humanism and Democracy” by Edward Said. An idea of criticism beyond cultural boundaries.
10.45 – 11:00 am
Break
11.00 – 11:45 pm
Keynote Speech
Stefan Sperl (SOAS University of London)
Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics
1.00 – 3.00 pm
Panel 9: Drifts or Caveats? Ethical and Political Discourse in Crosstemporal Arabic Literary Criticism
Chairperson: Yasmine al-Khayyat (Rutgers University)
Pasquale Macaluso (University of Cape Town)
“Laughter Needs No Justification Even After June 5”: Literary Criticism and Satire in Ghassan Kanafani’s Book Reviews After the Six Day War
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut)
Etel Adnan – read, viewed, and remembered through her private papers
Jeff Sacks (University of California Riverside)
Anontological Life: Poetry and Form in Mahmoud Darwish
Ana González Navarro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Universidad de Barcelona)
Towards an Arab feminist literary criticism: the case of Morocco
3.00 – 3.15 pm
Break
3.15 – 4.15 pm
Roundtable 2: Past Archetypes and the Challenge of the Contemporary
Moderator: Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut)
Sarah Bin Tyeer (Columbia University)
Taoufik Ben Amor (Columbia University)
Moneera al-Ghadeer (Scholar from Saudi Arabia) VIRTUAL
Yasmine al-Khayyat (Rutgers University)
Ada Barbaro (Sapienza University of Rome)
4.15 – 4.30 pm
Closing Remarks
Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University
