Workshop on Arabic literature arranged by the Research seminar in Semitic languages.

Programme

28 May

14.00 - 14.30         Narratives of Perseverance: Hope, Survival, and Renewal in Syrian Fiction (2011–2024). Lovisa Bergh, Dalarna University

14.30 - 15.00         Gendered Fictions of Crime: Female Killers in National-Colonial Egypt. Elena Chiti, Stockholm University

Coffee break

15.30 - 16.00        TBA. 

16.00-16.30         Figurative speech: A comparison between the poetics of Classical Arabic and Ancient Greek. Kerstin Eksell, Stockholm University

17-19               Refreshments  (see below regarding required pre-notice)

29 May

10-12              The Publics of Syrian Prison Narratives After 2011. Guest lecture by Anne-Marie McManus, Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin. In cooperation with CMES. See separate calendar post

Everyone is welcome to attend the lectures. If you also want to join in on the coffe break and/or the refreshments in the evening of the 28th, a pre-notification by 20 May is required (e-mail to maria.persson@mellost.lu.se).

 

The workshop is arranged in connection with Naja Bjørnson's mock viva (slutseminarium) which is held in the morning of 28 May (9.15-11, same location). For details, see separate calendar post.