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 2 can be found here.
Registration for Panel 3 can be found here.
Registration for Bilal Orfali’s keynote talk can be found here.
9:00-10:45 am
Panel 2: THE CHALLENGE OF THE CONTEMPORARY
Chairperson: Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania
“Cauldron of Conspiracy”: Modernity, Apocalypse, and Conspiracy Theory in Habiby’s The Pessoptimist and Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad.”
Aya Labanieh, Columbia University
“Infrapolitical Digital Culture & the Reclaiming of Postcolonial Arab Identity.”
Ali Omar Abu-yasein, Universitat Ramon-LLull
“Adab al-malǧa’: Towards a new Aesthetics of Refugeedom.”
Annamaria Bianco, Aix-Marseille Université (IREMAM)
“A Biography for a Poet?”
Jonathan Lawrence, University of Oxford
10:45-12:45pm
Panel 3: DECOLONIZATION AS THEORY
Chairperson: Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
“Iltizām Under Duress, The Case of Ghassan Kanafani.”
Nouri Gana, University of California, Los Angeles
“Kitab Sudan: Arabic Language and Islamic Epistemologies in the Black Arts Movement.”
Ellen McLarney, Duke University
“Literature, Labor, Extraction.”
Shir Alon, University of Minnesota
“Poetic Accumulation: Toward a Critique of Settler Form.”
Jeff Sacks, University of California, Riverside
“Final Remarks on the Postcolonial.”
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
12:45-1:45pm
Keynote Talk
Bilal Orfali, American University in Beirut
The Art of Enumeration in Pre-modern Arabic Literature
