Date
December 14, 2021

Location

This event will be held virtually. Registration required.


Time
9:00 am – 1:30 pm

Event Organizer

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society


Event Sponsor

Columbia University’s Arabic Studies Seminar
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Brill Academic Publishers


Event Co-Sponsor(s)

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 opening remarks and the first keynote talks can be found here.
Registration for Panel 1 can be found here.
Registration for Tahera Qutbuddin’s keynote talk can be found here.

9:00 – 9:15am
Opening Remarks
Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University

9:15-10:10am
Keynote Talk
Faisal Darraj
Modern Arabic Literary Criticism
النقد الادبي العربي الحديث

10:10-10:45am
متحف الادب The Museum of Literature
شكري المبخوت Choukri Mabkhout

10:45-12:15pm
Panel 1: Opening Panel in Honor of Jaroslav Stetkevych
Chairperson: Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University
Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona
Michael Sells, University of Chicago
Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania
Moneera al-Ghadeer, Senior Advisor of International Cultural Relations, Ministry of Culture, Riyadh

12:30-1:30pm
Keynote Talk
Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago

 The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Room B-101
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