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 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
