This event will be held virtually. Registration required.
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University’s Arabic Studies Seminar
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Brill Academic Publishers
Foundations and Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory is a conference, held on December 14-17, in memory of Jaroslav Stetkevych.
The full event program can be found here.
There are multiple webinar sessions throughout the day; you must individually register for each Zoom you wish to attend.
Registration for Panel 6 can be found here.
Registration for the closing keynote talk can be found here.
9:00-10:45am
Panel 6: THE CIRCULATIONS OF THEORY
Chairperson: Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS
“A Balm for Sorrows? Permutations of Arabic Literary Theory in Hebrew
Poetics,”
Daniel Behar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“’High Treason Against Arabic Literature and Criticism’ Ghālib Hālasa’s
Translation of Gaston Bachelard’s La poétique de l’espace.”
Fernanda Fischione, Sapienza University of Rome
“Doing New Criticism in Baghdad.”
Emily Drumsta, University of Texas, Austin
Mahfuz Fi Diwan al-Awqaf: Awlad Haritna as Autobiographical Fiction”
Karim Malak, Columbia University
11:00-12:00pm
Closing Keynote talk
Suzanne Stetkevych, Georgetown University
