Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits
Columbia University
December 14 – 17, 2021
Hosted by Columbia University’s Arabic Studies Seminar, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Sheikh Zayed Book Award, and Brill Academic Publishers
In Memory of Jaroslav Stetkevych
Hosted at Columbia University’s Faculty House and available virtually for all.
Columbia University affiliates are eligible to attend in person with the ReOpen CU green pass, space is limited – register for in person attendance here. Virtual registration is open to all.
All times listed are EST – New York. A PDF copy of the program is linked here.
Registration for Panel 4 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
Registration for Panel 5 can be found here.
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
Registration for Wen-Chin Ouyang’s keynote talk can be found here.
12:30-1:30pm
Keynote Talk
Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS, London University, UK