Program
Thursday, September 5th |
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8.00 – 9.00 am | Registration |
9.00 – 9.15 am | Opening and welcome speech |
9.15 – 11.00 am |
Section IAt the Confluence of Genres: Between Literature,
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Ani Sargsyan, University of Hamburg / University of Yerevan “Persian-Ottoman Turkish Bilingual Rhyming Dictionaries: |
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Georg Leube, University of Bayreuth “Erudition at the Intersection of Genres? The Deployment of |
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Sushmita Banerjee, University of Delhi “Persian Texts, History and Construction of a Knowledge |
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Tunahan Durmaz, Sabancı University “Do diaries have titles? A study of the Ottoman diaries in 17th and 18th centuries” |
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11.00 – 11.30 am |
Coffee break |
11.30 am – 13.00 pm |
Section IINew Perspectives on Genre in Classical LiteraturesChair: Stephan Guth, University of Oslo |
Edith Gülçin Ambros, University of Vienna “A case study of social structures triggering a sub-genre: the 16th-century Ottoman poet ‛Askerī’s “book of advice” on lover boys in the context of his peers’ actions and verses” |
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Michael Douglas Sheridan, Bilkent University “Hijāʾ: The Black Sheep of the Islamicate Poetic Tradition” |
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Hülya Çelik, University of Hamburg “The Genre of Power and Patronage – The Islamic Eulogy and its Flexibility” |
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Dženita Karić, Oriental Institute in Sarajevo “Faḍāʾil Genre in the Early Modern Ottoman Context” |
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1.00 – 2.00 pm |
Lunch break |
2.00 – 3.45 pm |
Section IIILegends, Epics, MythsChair: Hülya Çelik, University of Hamburg |
Ingeborg Baldauf, Humboldt University Berlin “Motif, Myth and Genre” |
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Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London “Genre, Structure, Word, and Meaning in Shaykh Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭiq al-ṭayr: A Discourse Analysis” |
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Jutta Wintermann, Independent Scholar, Cologne “The Epic Genre in the Iranian-Turkic Tradition” |
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Christine Kämpfer, Philipps University Marburg “Between innovation and tradition: Ḫwāǧū Kirmānī (1290-1350) and the post-Mongol Persian epic” |
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3.45 – 4.15 pm |
Coffee break |
6.30 – 8.00 pm |
Keynote lecture (room 221, 2nd floor) |
Wolfgang Müller-Funk, University of Vienna |
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8.30 pm |
Reception |
Friday, September 6th |
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9.00 – 10.45 am |
Section IVTowards Modernity: The Birth of the Novel in the Middle EastChair: Petr Kučera, University of Hamburg |
František Ondráš, Charles University in Prague “Fictional worlds of the Arabic novel genre in context of the nahda (the Arab enlightenment)” |
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Günil Özlem Ayaydın Cebe, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University “Biography as the Genre in the 19th Century Ottoman Literature” |
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Zoe Georgiadou, University of Hamburg “The popular City Mysteries literary genre: the case of the Constantinopolitan Greek novels in the second half of the 19th century” |
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Stephan Guth, University of Oslo “The Arab World Becoming Part of ‘the’ World: The example of riwāya (transmission of narratives) coming to mean ‘novel’” |
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10.45 – 11.00 am |
Coffee break |
11.00 – 12.45 am |
Section VThe “Sacred Genres”: Religious and Pseudo-Religious NarrativesChair: Ramin Shaghaghi, University of Hamburg |
Gurdofarid Miskinzoda, The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London
“Problems of Defining Sīra as a Genre” |
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Imke Mizera, University of Hamburg
“Early New Persian and Judaeo-Persian tafsīr (10th/11th century): One genre?” |
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Björn Bentlage, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg “Arabic ziyāra narratives of the early modern period” |
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12.45 am – 1.45 pm | Lunch break |
1.45 – 3.30 pm |
Section VIGenre and GenderChair: Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia |
İpek Hüner Cora, Bosporus University, Istanbul “Genre and the Performance of Gendered Acts in Ottoman Prose Fiction” |
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Elham Naeej, University of New South Wales “Genre, Gender and the Field: Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels and the Female Struggle” |
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Maryam Eftekhari, Islamic Azad University of Kashan “The place of women’s poetry in Persian lyrical literature with an emphasis on E’tesami, Farokhzad, and Behbahani’s works” |
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3.30 – 4.00 pm | Coffee break |
4.00 – 5.00 pm |
Special guest lecture |
Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia “Defining Lives or Redefining History: On Iranian Women's Life Narratives” |
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5.15 – 7.15 pm | Guided tour through Hamburg |
Saturday, September 7th |
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9.15 – 11.00 am |
Section VIIGenre, Politics and Language in Modern LiteraturesChair: Johanna Chovanec, University of Vienna |
Ramin Shaghaghi, University of Hamburg “‘Sacred Defense’ in Contemporary Persian Literature: The Genesis of a New Genre?” |
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Fouad Mami, University of Adrar “Beyond Arabophone and Francophone Novel Writing in Algeria: A Reading in the Quandary of Language Choice?” |
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Petr Kučera, University of Hamburg “Genre as a Political Battlefield? The Uses and Misuses of the Novel in the Early Turkish Republic” |
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11.00 – 11.30 am | Coffee break |
11.30 – 12.00 am | Concluding remarks |
12.00 am – 1.00 pm | Round table: Publication of the papers in an edited volume |