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

This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, so registration is required. Register by October 16 here. 

Colloquium Program: 

9:30-10 Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks

    -Adam Bursi, Utrecht University

    -Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University

    -Sarah Pearce, NYU

    -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-CCHS

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

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

This colloquium is co-sponsored by: Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU.