Date
December 16, 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 Panel 4 can be found here.
Registration for Panel 5 can be found here.
Registration for Wen-Chin Ouyang’s keynote talk can be found here.

9:00–10:30am
Panel 4: THEORIZING THE CLASSICAL
Chairperson: Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago
“Mannerism Revisited: al-Maʿarri’s Zajr al-Nābiḥ and its Variations.”
Sarah R. bin Tyeer, Columbia University
“A Case for Love Poetry in Literary History.”
Jennifer Tobkin, George Washington University
المقطّعات ال ّشعريّة في مد ّونة المقل : بين ثوابت نظرية األدب عند العرب ومتغيراتها ّين
Ali Boujdidi, University of Gabes

10:45–12:30pm
Panel 5: LOCATIONS OF THEORY
Chairperson: Yaseen Noorani
“Amīn al-Rīḥānī as a Literary Theorist.”
Michael Battalia, Princeton University
“Sociological Perspectives to Literature in the Modern Arab World(s): ʿAlī alWardī’s Usṭūrat al-adab al-rafīʿ (1957).”
Antonio Pacifico, Jean Moulin University of Lyon 3.
“False Dichotomies.”
Taoufik Ben Amor, Columbia University
“The Missing Pictorial in Narrative.”
Joscelyn Shawn Ganjara Jurich, Columbia University

12:45-1:30pm
Keynote Talk
Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS, London University, UK
Creativity in Arabic Critical Theory

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