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The UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies is hosting a conference which will showcase new books in the field of Middle Eastern Literature.Friday, February 28
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
Info: Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Freie Universität Berlin) in conversation with Nahid Siamdoust (UT Austin)
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Transla
Info: Anna Ziajka Stanton (Penn State University) in conversation with Karen Grumberg (UT Austin)
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History Between Iran
Info: Alexander Jabbari (University of Minnesota) in conversation with Avigail Noy (UT Austin)
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM
Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
Info: Emily Drumsta (UT Austin) in conversation with Kamran Ali (UT Austin)
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
Info: Sam Hodgkin (Yale University) in conversation with Levi Thompson (UT Austin)
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Roundtable on publishing books in Middle Eastern Studies today
Info: Moderated by Faith Wilson Stein (Northwestern University)
Thursday, February 27
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union
Info: Nergis Ertürk's keynote address
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Robert L. Patton Building (RLP), 305 East 23rd Street, Austin, United States
Tickets
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