The Great Lakes Adiban Society’s 7th Annual Workshop Program

Location
2500 Knauss Hall
1026 Van De Giessen Rd
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49006


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Friday, October 6

6:00 pm: Informal gathering at Nathan Tabor’s house with Medieval Studies Research Group, RSVP.

Saturday, October 7

8:45–9:15: Continental Breakfast on Site

Language as Ritual and Praise (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00: Transcending Adam’s Fall, Speaking Primordial Language, and Theorizing Islamic Ritual in Early Modern Cairo (Kamal Gasimov, University of Michigan)
10:00–10:45: “Your Frenzied Lover has Appeared Again”: An Ode to Imam Rezā by Shāni Takallu (Paul Losensky, Indiana University)

10:45–11:00: Coffee break

Persianate Networks of Translation (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:45: Poured into a Single Vessel: Poetry in Translation in Medieval Khurasan (Jeson Ng, University of Chicago)
11:45–12:30: Persian to Greek, Greek to Persian and Some Other Languages: Translations and Grammar Books in Ottoman Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century (Samet Budak, University of Michigan)

12:30–2:00: Lunch

Boundaries in Islamicate Literatures (2:00–3:30)
2:00-2:30: Violence, Memory, and Emulation During Nadir Shah’s Occupation of Delhi in 1739 (Nathan L.M. Tabor, Western Michigan University)
2:30-3:00: Title TBD (Latifa Bounou, Benedictine University)
3:00-3:30: Labor, Servitude, and Kingship in the Persian Epic Tradition (Kaveh Hemmat, Benedictine University)

6:30/7 PM, Dinner, Martini’s

Sunday, October 8

9:00–10:00: Continental Breakfast on Site

Performing the Canon (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00: What Makes a Good Ghaznavid Court Poet? The Po/et(h)ics of ʿUnṣurī (d. 1040) (Kristof Szitar, Université de Lausanne)
10:00–10:45: Two Nuṣaybs on Love, Each in His Own Way (Jennifer Tobkin, The George Washington University)

10:45–11:00: Coffee break

Courtly and Wild Realms of Indo-Persian (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:45: Kings and Memories: Anthologizing Persian Poetry and Royal Patronage Under the Mughals (Shahla Farghadani, University of Michigan)
11:45–12:30: Consider the Mosquito: Munīr Lāhorī’s Poetics of Place and Wonder in “Manifestation of the Rose” (Shaahin Pishbin, University of Chicago)

12:30–2:00: Lunch at Middle Eastern Appetite

The Ghazal: Remixes and Deep Cuts (2:00–3:30)
2:00–2:45: Translating the Divan-e Shams (Cameron Cross, University of Michigan)
2:45–3:30: Strange-making in the Poems of al-Mutanabbī: Context and Mechanisms (Indran Fernando, University of Chicago)

Wrap Up Discussion: 4:00-5:00 PM