Presented By: Department of Middle East Studies
Great Lakes Adiban Society - 8th Annual Workshop
The Great Lakes Adiban Society is pleased to announce the schedule for its eighth annual workshop, to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The workshop is organized around the study of pre-modern Islamicate literatures, and participants will be sharing their current research projects for feedback and discussion. The workshop is free and open to the public; if any accommodations are needed, please email greatlakesadibansociety at gmail.com
Saturday, October 19
9:30–10:15. Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University) / Idol Shattering to Abrahamic Star Gazing: Jewish History and Muslim Polemics at the Mongol Court in Ilkhanid Iran
10:15–11:00. Kasra Shiva (Oxford University) / Sharing a Goblet with an Ismaili Da’i: Wine Drinking and its Ethos in Nizari Quhistani’s Dasturnama [on Zoom]
11:15–12:00. Jennifer Tobkin (The George Washington University) / Where in the Arabic Literary Canon is Nusayb b. Rabah?
1:30–2:15. Eva Kuras (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) / Chivalry and Courtly Love in the Global Medieval Romance
2:15–3:00. Paul Losensky (Indiana University) / The Perilous Path from Manuscript to Print: Editing Feyzi’s Nal o Daman
Sunday, October 20
9:30–10:15. Shahla Farghadani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) / Tracing the Roots: Awhadi’s Genealogical Legacy and its Significance
10:15–11:00. Ahmet Barış Ekiz (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) / The Ottoman Order of Books: Learning and Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire
11:15–12:00. Taymaz Pour Mohammad (Northwestern University) / Persian Jones and the Origins of a Palatable Philology
Saturday, October 19
9:30–10:15. Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University) / Idol Shattering to Abrahamic Star Gazing: Jewish History and Muslim Polemics at the Mongol Court in Ilkhanid Iran
10:15–11:00. Kasra Shiva (Oxford University) / Sharing a Goblet with an Ismaili Da’i: Wine Drinking and its Ethos in Nizari Quhistani’s Dasturnama [on Zoom]
11:15–12:00. Jennifer Tobkin (The George Washington University) / Where in the Arabic Literary Canon is Nusayb b. Rabah?
1:30–2:15. Eva Kuras (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) / Chivalry and Courtly Love in the Global Medieval Romance
2:15–3:00. Paul Losensky (Indiana University) / The Perilous Path from Manuscript to Print: Editing Feyzi’s Nal o Daman
Sunday, October 20
9:30–10:15. Shahla Farghadani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) / Tracing the Roots: Awhadi’s Genealogical Legacy and its Significance
10:15–11:00. Ahmet Barış Ekiz (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) / The Ottoman Order of Books: Learning and Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire
11:15–12:00. Taymaz Pour Mohammad (Northwestern University) / Persian Jones and the Origins of a Palatable Philology
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