Spring 2019 MESALC Interdisciplinary UVA Forum

January 24, 2019

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The MESALC Interdisciplinary UVA Forum is a new scholarly venue that invites UVA junior scholars and doctoral students to present their interdisciplinary research in the Literatures and Cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

SEMINAR I:Of fals ymaginacioun: Poetics of Hypocrisy in Medieval Anglo-Arabic Texts”

  • Sherif Abdelkarim, English
  • Thursday, January 31st
  • 144 New Cabell Hall
  • 3:30 - 5:00 PM

 

SEMINAR II: Dada à Lucknow: India and the European Avant-Garde

  • Bilal Hashmi, MESALC
  • Thursday, February 14th
  • 144 New Cabell Hall
  • 3:30 - 5:00 PM

 

SEMINAR III: “The Dialectic of the Sea & the Desert: Exile, Commitment and Dissent in the Novels of Abdulrahman Munif”

  • Suja Sawafta, MESALC
  • Thursday, February 28th
  • 144 New Cabell Hall
  • 3:30 - 5:00 PM

 

SEMINAR IV: “Resistance and Rebellion in Modern Iranian Literature and Culture”

  • Pardis Minuchehr, MESALC
  • Thursday, March 7th
  • 144 New Cabell Hall
  • 3:30 - 5:00 PM

 

SEMINAR V: “Proposing Marriage, Pursuing Peace: Diplomatic Relations and Discord between Mouley Ismaël of Morocco and Louis XIV of France”

  • Mary E. Allen, French
  • Thursday, March 21st
  • 144 New Cabell Hall
  • 3:30 - 5:00 PM