BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:300@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit;VALUE=DATE:20150415 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit;VALUE=DATE:20150418 DTSTAMP:20150204T225245Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/thousand-one-nights/ SUMMARY:The Thousand and One Nights DESCRIPTION:MASSACHUSETTS\n\nThe Center for Middle Eastern Studies &\;  Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)\n\na re pleased to present a call for conference papers\nOrganizing Committee:\ n\n-       Sandra Naddaff (Harvard U.)\n-       Aboubakr Chra ïbi (Inalco\, Paris)\n-       William Granara (Harvard U.)\n\nLiter ary works with many textual sources\, having been transformed\, much trans lated\, and exercising wide influences\, such as the Thousand and One Nig hts\, create dense and fluid textual networks. What must we have read\, se en or heard to claim to know the Nights? The oldest and most comprehensiv e Arabic manuscript? The Bulaq or Mahdi edition? Burton or Haddawy’s tra nslations? Poe’s short story? Rabaud’s opera? Mahfouz’s novel? Borge s’s essays? Pasolini’s film? Materials related to the Nights continu e to emerge from many arts\, countries\, periods\, disciplines\, and langu ages\, and their scope continues to widen\, making the Nights a universa l work from all points of view.\n\nAntoine Galland’s French translation published in 1704 had a tremendous impact and was much imitated in French literature\, even contributing to the creation of a new literary genre (th e oriental tale). It can be argued\, by analogy\, that the arrival of the  Thousand and One Nights in the Arabic-speaking world in the mid-8th cen tury had a similar effect on Arabic literature of the period\, and that of following centuries. The book’s interactions with the wider culture wou ld last a thousand years\, the longest period in the text’s history. The testimonies of Ibn al-Nadîm and Abu ’Abd Allâh al-Yamanî\, who expli citly mention Arabic imitations of theNights\, strongly support this hypot hesis. Similarly\, the existence of numerous books closely related to theN ights in terms of content\, such as Kitâb al-Hikâyât al-’Ajîba wa- l-Akhbâr al-Gharîba and the Hundred and One Nights\, shows that this is not a single text but rather a set of texts of a particular genre\, which can be called middle literature and which circulated in the Arabic-speakin g world at the same time as the Nights.\n\nThe simultaneous transformatio ns of the Thousand and One Nights and their environment often introduce new forms of interaction and promote the creation of new cultural objects and new research perspectives.From the 19th century\, short stories and no vels would gradually dominate the various forms of literary production\, w hile the Nights would also be revitalized with new editions (Bûlâq\, C alcutta I and II\, Breslau\, etc.) and new translations (Lane\, Burton\, M ardrus\, etc.). Always a publishing staple\, the Nights would gradually enter world literature through the great novelists of the day\, from Argen tina to Japan\, but also other arts\, such as music and cinema from its ea rliest days (Méliès\, 1905\; Reiniger\, 1926).  Another remarkable tran sformation relates to contemporary society\, namely the birth of several s cientific disciplines\, the revival of researchtools\, and the richness of interdisciplinary approaches such as sociology\, history\, anthropology\, psychoanalysis and political philosophy\, which have adopted the Nights  as a reference corpus.\n\nIn light of the above\, we ask the following q uestions:\n\nFirst panel: The manuscripts of the Nights and middle Arabi c literature:\n\nWhat could Arabic manuscripts of the Nights represent w hen compared to their lost Persian model? What changes have taken place? H ave they been imitated\, and by what? Do other texts of Arabic literature resemble the Nights? What criteria can be used to identify similarities? How do they differ from other genres\, such as the sîra\, the folktale or the khabar? In what ways might they constitute a middle literature?\n\nSe cond panel: Galland’s translation and the 18th century:\n\nHow and why w ere the Nights transformed when they were published in France? What type of literature didthey represent in the eyes of French readers? What was t heir impact on the concept of the “tale”? How was the “oriental tale ” constructed? What were the consequences on French literature\, or even thought and philosophy\, of the time?\n\nThird panel: The Nights\, world literature and the arts:\n\nDo the Nights\, which exploit a series of em bedded frame stories to act out a drama of literary creation\, represent a model for the writer and the artist? Among the Nights’ hundreds of sto ries which are the most used? Why and how were these storiesselected and t ransformed? What is the effect\, in turn\, on their original texts?\n\nFou rth panel: The Nights\, the humanities and the sciences:\n\nHow can the  Nights be used in other disciplines? How can issues concerning medieval s ocieties\,religions\, or political governance be explored through the Nig hts? For example\, is it possible\, in the context of interdisciplinary re search\, to use the therapeutic aspects of Shahrazad’s stories in medici ne?\n\n****************************************************\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/02/Unknown3.jpg CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture LOCATION:To Be Determined\, TBD\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States GEO:42.3736158;-71.1097335 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=TBD\, Cambridge\, MA\, Unit ed States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=To Be Determined:geo:42.3736158,-71.1 097335 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR