Monday, April 9th
8:30 – 9:15 Reception of the guests and breakfast
9:15 – 9:45 Opening Remarks: Director of the Institute (Prof. Wisnovsky),
the Graduate Program Director (Prof. Hartman)
and the Head of the Symposium Committee (Pauline Froissart)
9:45 – 11:00 Panel 1: Identity in Tension and Negotiation
Chair: Prof. Katherine Lemons
Mahshid Zandi, The Insider/Outsider Problem in Theorizing Islam
Yi Lei, From Guests to Locals: Muslims in China after the 13th Century Mongol Invasion
Seyda Karaoglu, Islamophobia à la Française: A Typology in Étienne Dinet's Hajj Travelogue (1930)
Matvey Lomonosov, Do Anti-Muslim Narratives Have Primeval History?: Rethinking Perenniality of the Serbian Myth of the Kosovo Battle, 1389
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Panel 2: Interpreting Shi‘i Texts and Tradition
Chair: Prof. Rula Jurdi Abisaab
Zahra Mehreen Jiwan, More Fragrant than Musk: Olfactory Associations with the Soil from the Grave of Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī (d.680) in ibn Qulawayh’s (d. 979/980) Kāmil al-Ziyārāt.
Osama Eshera, Science, Religion, and State in Safavid Iran: Discourses on the Qiblah
Fariduddin Attar, “Substitution of States”: Quṭb al-Dīn Askevārī’s Historiographical Method and Literary Technique in Maḥbūb al-qulūb
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45 Panel 3: Approaching Religion from a Philosophical Perspective
Chair: Prof. Robert Wisnovsky
Wissam Nuwayhid, The Qur’anic Image of Man
Hussein Ibrahim, Mullā Ṣadrā and Spinoza on Religion: Reason and Imagination and their role in Prophecy
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:15 Keynote by Prof. Dima Ayoub: Itinerant Paratexts in Translation
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Tuesday, April 10th
9:00 – 9:45 Breakfast
9:45 – 10:45 Panel 4: Problematizing the Nation in a Global Age
Chair: Prof. Armando Salvatore
Emre Amasyali, Sectarian One-Upmanship: Educational Competition and Modernization at the End of Empire
Alireza Nouri, Rural/Urban Divide and Shifting Turkish Foreign Policy
Emadodin Mortazavi, Secularism as a Depoliticizing Power: The Case of Re-Islamization of Iranian Muslims
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Panel 5: New Approaches to Arabic Literary Studies
Chair: Prof. Michelle Hartman
Peiyu Yang, Triangular Translation: Interpreting Naḥdawi Literary Production in China
Ralph Haddad, Reading Queer Affects in Emerging Arabic Literature
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 Panel 6: Poetry and Belonging in South Asia
Chair: Prof. Pasha M. Khan
Sabeena Shaikh, Selfhood or Seduction: an analysis of 'autobiography'
Fizza Joffrey, Lament Through Time: Urdu Shi‘i Mourning Poetry and the Power of Memory
14:15 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:45 Roundtable: Methodological Considerations in Approaching Islamic Studies Interdisciplinarily
Prof. Prashant Keshavmurthy & Prof. Robert Wisnovsky