October 25, 2019
Richard Ettinghausen Library, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University
9:30-10. Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks
Adam Bursi, Utrecht University; Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University; Sarah Pearce, NYU; and Hamza Zafer, University of Washington
10:00-11:30. Seminar I: Compunctious Authors
Sefer ha-Pardes: A Short Introduction to the Human Experience
David Torollo, King’s College London
The Poetics of Contingency in al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmah of Oman
Rama Alhabian, Cornell University
Respondent: Hamza Zafer, University of Washington
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 1:15. Seminar II: Portraying the Hebrew Bible
From Provence to Castile: The Hebrew Bible in the Vernacular
Esperanza Alfonso, CSIC-CCHS
Solomon vs. Solomon
Uriah Kfir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Respondent: Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University
1:15-2:45. Lunch Break
2:45-3:00. Postprandial Remarks
Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University
3:00-5:00. Seminar III: Ideas Unmoored
Conceptions of Pre-Islamic Iberia: The Andalusi Ishbān Story
Kiley Foster, Cornell University
Growing Almohad Aesthetics: The Mosque of Seville in Context
Jessica Streit, College of Charleston
Merchant Networks in the Venetian-Ottoman Mediterranean
Ali Humayun Akhtar, Bates College
Respondent: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
5:00-5:30. Concluding Remarks
Ross Brann, Cornell University
5:30-6:30. Reception