Date
December 15, 2022

Location

Faculty House, Columbia University


Time
8:30 am – 8:00 pm

Event Organizer

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society


Event Sponsor

Event Co-Sponsor(s)

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 the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Department of Culture & Tourism, Abu Dhabi)

The program for the event can be found below.

Day 2: Thursday, Dec 15 – Columbia Faculty House

PLEASE NOTE THAT TIMES HAVE BEEN UPDATED

9.00–10.20am
Panel 4:Traveling Criticism: Reshaping Imaginary Centers and Peripheries of the Arab World
Chairperson: Monica Ruocco (L’Orientale University of Naples)
Clarissa Burt (US Naval Academy)
Ayyām al-ʿArab on Screen: Re-Imaging Turāth and Trans/Forming Pre-Islam and its Poetry for
Contemporary Audiences
Shuaib Ally (McGill University) [VIRTUAL]
Irony as False Attribution of Beliefs: ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Contribution to the Theoretical
Development of Irony in Arabic Linguistics and Exegesis
Rym Chakraoui (Lusail University, Doha Qatar)
Arabic Narrative in American Voices: John Barth and Edgar Alan Poe

10.20 – 10:40 am
Break

10.40– 12.20 am
Panel 5: Paradigms Interrogated?
Chairperson: Suzanne P. Stetkevych (Georgetown University)
Ali Hussein (University of Haifa)
The Development of Rhetoric in Classical Arabic Poetry
Amidu Sanni (Fountain University)
The Arabic Literary Theory on the Ancients (Qudamā’) and the Moderns (Muḥdathūn): A New
Perspective
Yaseen Noorani (University of Arizona)
The Struggle to Define World, Eastern, and National Literary Identity in Egypt during the 1930’s and 1940’s
Boutheina Khaldi (American University of Sharjah)
Bint al-Shᾱṭi’: A Revisionary Reading of the Arabic Literary Canon

1.20– 3.00 pm
Panel 6: Reading the Text and the Paratext: The Role of Translation in the Development of Arabic Literary Criticism
Chairperson: Shir Alon (University of Minnesota)
Qussay al-Attabi (Harvard University)
How Theory Travels, or Sartre in Baghdad
Fatima Sai (Università degli Studi Gabriele d’Annunzio – Chieti-Pescara) VIRTUAL
Mu‘āraḍa, Metaphor of Modernism
Arturo Monaco (Sapienza University of Rome)
Theory in Use: Samples of Literary Comparativism in the Footnotes of Sulaymān al-Bustānī’s
Translation of the Iliad

3.00 – 3.15 pm
Break

3.15 –4.00 pm
Keynote Speech
Monica Ruocco (L’Orientale University of Naples)
Is Riḥlah Still a Genre in Contemporary Arabic Literature?

4.00 – 5.00 pm
Roundtable 1: Cross-temporal Poetics and Criticism
Moderator: Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut)
Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Matthew Keegan (Columbia University)
Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS University of London)

 

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