Please find the program here.
Schedule:
Sunday, 16 November
7.00 pm
Ferial Ghazoul, “The Arab Poet: From the Spokesman of the Tribe to a Tribune of the Dispossessed”
Introduction: Angelika Neuwirth
Monday, 17 November
9.00 - 9.15 am
Introduction: Angelika Neuwirth, Friederike Pannewick
Panel: Writing in the “Stepmother Tongue”
9.15 - 10.15 am
Chaired by Friederike Pannewick
Ami Elad-Bouskilla, "Arabs Writing In Hebrew-Modification and Affirmation Of Norms"
Discussant: Alexandra Nocke
10.15 - 11.15 am
Doris Ruhe, "Which Society's Norms? Francophone Writers in Algeria Facing the Postcolonial Dilemma"
Discussant: Ines Kappert
11.40 am - 12.40 pm
Sonja Mejcher, "Speaking out against oppression: Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose and The Arab Apocalypse"
Discussant: Ken Seigneurie
Panel: Gender Norms – Deconstructed
Chaired by Maryam Mameghanian-Prenzlow
2.20 - 3.20 pm
Mona Amyuni, "Women’s Writing in the Literature of Wounded Beirut 1975-90" Discussant: Alois Hahn
3.20 - 4.20 pm
Renate Jacobi, "Layla al-Akhyaliyya- an Umayyad feminist?"
Discussant: Sunil Sharma
Panel: Writing Against Politics
Chaired by Kirill Dimitriev
4.40 - 5.40 pm
Stephan Guth, "Instructors of Rebellion. Two novels from Turkey on how to overcome Western cultural domination"
Discussant: Michael Hess
5.40 - 6.40 pm
Nima Mina, "Literature of resistance: Post-revolution Persian prison memoire writing"
Discussant: Maryam Mameghanian-Prenzlow
Tuesday, 18 November
Panel: Debating Norms in "Canonical" Literature
Chaired by Michael Marx
9.00 - 10.00 am
Samer Mahdy Ali, "Mutanabbi's Dirty Exchange with the Sufi: Correcting Poetic and Mystic Practice in a Staged Confrontation between Poet and Patron"
Discussant: Abdul-Rahim al-Shaikh
10.00 - 11.00 am
Vahid Behmardi, "The Madira of Baghdad versus the Sikbaj of Nishapur - An Illustration of Socio-cultural Contrasts"
Discussant: Asli Niyazioglu
11.20 am - 12.20 pm
Sunil Sharma, "The Poet/Lover and his Other in the Persian Ghazal"
Discussant: Nima Mina
1.40 - 2.40 pm
Asli Niyazioglu, "Dreaming of the Dead, Partiying with Friends: An Early seventeenth century Ottoman Poet and his Reasons for Composing Mesnevis"
Discussant: Andreas Islebe
Panel: Norms Through a Caleidoscope
Chaired by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
2.40 - 3.40 pm
Ibrahim Abu Hashhash: "Arabic Poets and the American Norms: New York in Arabic Poems at the Beginning and at the End of the 20th Century"
Discussant: Sonja Mejcher
4.00 - 5.00 pm
Abdul-Rahim Al-Sheikh, "Troy Never Fell, Achilles Never Defeated: Decoding Darwish's Aporia in the Post-Oslo Writings"
Discussant: Martin Treml
5.00 - 6.00 pm
Ken Seigneurie, "The Importance of Being Kawabata: The Narratee in Today’s Literature of Commitment"
Discussant: Andreas Pflitsch
8.00 pm
Rashid ad-Da’if (reading from "Lieber Herr Kawabata" [Arabic and German], discussion with Angelika Neuwirth)
So. 16 Nov. 2003
