[Andalusi Studies] Colloquium in Honor of Ross Brann, 10/25

[SJ Pearce]

Dear colleagues,

Below (and attached), please find the program for a colloquium and book
presentation in honor of Ross Brann's 70th birthday. Some of Ross' students
and friends will gather on October 25 in the Richard Ettinghausen Library
of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU to share work
and readings of texts, and to present him with a Festschrift: *His Pen and
Ink are a Powerful Mirror* (Brill, 2020): https://brill.com/view/title/38218.
If you will be in the New York area, please join us for this celebration.
The event is open but seating is limited and we want to make sure to have
enough coffee on hand, so registration is requested via the colloquium web
site by October 4: https://wp.nyu.edu/powerfulmirror/registration/.

All the best,
S.J. Pearce


His Pen and Ink are a Powerful Mirror: A Colloquium in Honor of Ross Brann
on His 70th Birthday

October 25, 2019. Richard Ettinghausen Library, 50 Washington Square South,
New York, NY.

9:30-10. Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks

Adam Bursi, Utrecht University; Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University;  Sarah
Pearce, NYU; and Hamza Zafer, University of Washington

10:00-11:30. Seminar I: Compunctious Authors

Sefer ha-Pardes: A Short Introduction to the Human Experience
David Torollo, King’s College London

The Poetics of Contingency in al-Ḥarīrī's Maqāmah of Oman
Rama Alhabian, Cornell University

Respondent: Hamza Zafer, University of Washington

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 1:15.  Seminar II: Portraying the Hebrew Bible

>From Provence to Castile: The Hebrew Bible in the Vernacular
Esperanza Alfonso, CSIC

Solomon vs. Solomon
Uriah Kfir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Respondent: Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University

1:15-2:45. Lunch Break

2:45-3:00. Postprandial Remarks
Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University

3:00-5:00. Seminar III: Ideas Unmoored

Conceptions of Pre-Islamic Iberia: The Andalusi Ishbān Story
Kiley Foster, Cornell University

Growing Almohad Aesthetics: The Mosque of Seville in Context
Jessica Streit, College of Charleston

Legislating Borders in the Early Modern World: Merchant Networks
in the Venetian-Ottoman Mediterranean
Ali Humayun Akhtar, Bates College

Respondent: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University

5:00-5:30. Concluding Remarks
Ross Brann, Cornell University

5:30-6:30. Reception

-- 
S.J. Pearce
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
New York University
13-19 University Place, Room 425
New York, NY 10003
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