TheSources, Thousand Transformations, and One Nights: and Relationship with Literature, the Arts and the Sciences

April 16–17, 2015 Harvard University CGIS S020 & S030 (April 16) Wiliam James Hall, B1 (April 17)

Presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

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Organizing Committee: Sandra Naddaff (Harvard), Aboubakr Chraïbi (Inalco, Paris), William Granara (Harvard)

Thursday, April 16 9:00am — Welcome, William GRANARA (Harvard) & Aboubakr CHRAIBI (Inalco, Paris)

9:15am — Panel 1: Chair: William GRANARA (Harvard) Ibrahim AKEL (Inalco, Paris), Les premiers lecteurs des premiers manuscrits des Mille et une nuits (in Arabic) v Ulrich MARZOLPH (Göttingen Academy), Fables in the 1001 Nights v Delio PROVERBIO (Vatican Library), The Arabian Nights transmission in Turkish tradition: an overview v Francesca BELLINO (University of Turin), The Garshuni dimension of the Nights—Texts of the Arabian Nights genre addressing the Christian Arabic audiences

1:30pm ­­— Panel 2: Chair: Sandra NADDAFF (Harvard) Arafat ABDUR RAZZAQUE (Harvard), Genie in a Book: Print Culture, Authorship and “L’affaire du tome VIII” in the History of Les Mille et une nuits v Daria KOVALEVA (Harvard), The Arabian Nights and the Ottoman Imperial Harem v Paulo HORTA (NYU-Abu Dhabi), The “Sleeper” and Christopher Sly: Shakespeare and the early-modern circulation of Nights tales v Margaret LITVIN (Boston U. ), 1001 Days in alt-muslim Fantasy: G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen v Daniel BEHAR (Harvard), Jaqueline Kahanoff on the margins of A Thousand and One Nights

Friday, April 17 9:00 — Panel 3: Chair: Aboubakr CHRAIBI Abdelfattah KILITO (U. Mohammed V, Rabat), Eugénie et les deux rêveurs v Evanghelia STEAD (Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies), Modern Irony, Creative Writing and InefficientArabian Nights tales v Henry M. BOWLES (Harvard), Psychological Realism and The 1001 Nights: The Dreams’ of Abû al-Ḥasan v Adam MESTYAN (Harvard), Harun al-Rashid: Modernity and Kingship on the Arabic Stage, 1850s-1890s

1:30pm — Panel 4: Chair: Roy MOTTAHEDEH (Harvard) Ahmed RAGAB (Harvard), Demons and Fish Bones: Towards a history of illness in Alf Layla v Dominique JULLIEN (UCSB), Healing by exempla: political therapy in the Nights’ hypertext v Anny GAUL (Georgetown University), Flowers as Pharmacy: Engendering Subjectivities in The Thousand and One Nights v Fereshteh FARMANI (Inalco, Paris), Les illustrations de la première édition lithographique des Mille et une nuits en Iran v Ilaria VITALI (U. Bologna), L’héritage des Mille et une nuits dans l’oeuvre de Michel Ocelot

Open to the public. No registration required. Contact: Liz Flanagan, [email protected] v More info: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3719