Apr 16-17: Conference: The Thousand and One Nights

"The Thousand and One Nights: Sources, Transformations, and Relationship with Literature, the Arts and the Sciences"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies & Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) are pleased to present a conference

Organizing Committee: Sandra Naddaff (Harvard University); Aboubakr Chraïbi (Inalco, Paris); William Granara (Harvard University)

Thursday,  April 16 and Friday, April 17 all day; CGIS South (Apr 16) and William James Hall (Apr 17)

 
Literary works with many textual sources, having been transformed, much translated, and exercising wide influences, such as the Thousand and One Nights, create dense and fluid textual networks. What must we have read, seen or heard to claim to know the Nights? The oldest and most comprehensive Arabic manuscript? The Bulaq or Mahdi edition? Burton or Haddawy’s translations? Poe’s short story? Rabaud’s opera? Mahfouz’s novel? Borges’s essays? Pasolini’s film? Materials related to the Nights continue to emerge from many arts, countries, periods, disciplines, and languages, and their scope continues to widen, making the Nights a universal work from all points of view.

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