Wednesday, May 7th
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
15:00-16:00 Registration
16:00 Welcome adresses
José María Sanz Martínez, Rector, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Antonio Cascón Dorado, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
Isabella Camera d’Afflitto, EURAMAL President, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, EURAMAL Secretary General, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
16:30-18:15 Session I
Chairperson: Rasheed El-Enany, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
“Gulfanizing Arab Culture in the Age of Diaspora”
Walid Hamarneh, University of Richmond (USA)
“The past and the present periods in the prose of Qatar”
Natalia B. Kovyrshina, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Russia)
“Khalf al-shams by Bushra al-Maqtari when commitment is female in a macho society”
Francesco De Angelis, Università di Milano (Italy)
"Tariqati al-khassa. New tendencies in Arabic literature for children."
Astrid Ottosson al-Bitar, Stockholm University (Sweden)
“Future Environments”
Tetz Rooke, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
18:15 Writers’ testimonies: Conversation with Raja Alem
19:00 Cocktail
Thursday, May 8th
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
10:00-12:00 Session II
Chairperson: Tetz Rooke, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
“Poetry and power in Egypt: Ahmad Fuad Nagm”
Francesca Corrao, University LUISS (Italy)
“À propos du zajal marocain”
Mercedes Aragón Huerta, University of Cádiz (Spain)
“An old/new genre: vicissitudes of the Lebanese zajal”
Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
“Arab women writers in the 21-st century”
Natalia Shoujskaya, The State Institute of International Relations (Russia)
“The Arabian Peninsula Novel’s Eastern Front: Class, Citizenship, and Identity”
William Granara, Harvard University (USA)
“Some Emerging Writers from the Gulf”
Rasheed El-Enany, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
12:00 -12.15 Coffee break
12:30-13:30 Session III
Chairperson: Isabella Camera d’Afflitto, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
“Religion et religiosité, un champ propice à la création littéraire : essai sur le roman Mawlana d’Ibrahim Issa”
Sobhi Boustani, INALCO (France)
“Intertextuality”
Elisabeth Moestrup, University of Aarhus (Denmark)
“Between Resacralization and political Islam – On the Role of Religion in the Contemporary Syrian Novel”
Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck, University of Basel (Switzerland) / University of Münster (Germany)
13:30-14:00
Edward de Moor Memorial Lecture: “Transforming the Arabic Literary Canon”
Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
15:45-17:45 Session IV
Chairperson: William Granara, Harvard University (USA)
" الـشــــعـر الـســوريّ الـمـعــاصـر ومـســألـة الالـتــزام "
(“Contemporary Syrian novel and the question of iltizam”)
Abdo Abbud, University of Münster (Germany)/ University of Damascus (Syria)
رواية الالتزام السياسي السوري: مناصرة الثورة من خلال إعادة توليد تجربة رعب الذاتية”
(“Compromise and commitment in the Syrian political novel: supporting revolution through reconstitution of how we experienced horror by ourselves”)
Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
“Cracks in the Wall: Syrian Literature and Art in Light of Radical Political Change”
Part one: Friederike Pannewick, University of Marburg (Germany)
Part two: Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
“Paysages et narration: le retour à la rihla dans l’œuvre de Yusuf Rakha”
Monica Ruocco, Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)
18:00 -18.15 Coffee break
18:30 Writers’ testimonies: Ezzat al-Qamhawi
Friday, May 9th
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
10:00-12:00 Session V
Chairperson: Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck, University of Basel (Switzerland) / University of Münster (Germany)
"Diary as a privileged medium for new committed literature"
Dina Heshmat, American University in Cairo (Egypt)
“The space-time structure in Rabee Jabir’s novel The Druze of Belgrade”
Francisco Rodríguez Sierra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
“Risalat al-ghufran Revisited in Today’s Yemeni Literature”
Paola Viviani, Second University of Naples (Italy)
“Programs of Renewal – Towards an adab al-buh wa’l-sidq wa’l-karama? An analytical and comparative glance at the forewords of some recent literary publications”
Stephan Guth, University of Oslo (Norwey)
“The Monstrosity of Ghurba”
Tarek El-Ariss, University of Texas (USA)
“What happened to “Iltizam”: Elias Khoury’s Sinalcol”
Sabah Ghandour, University of Balamand (Lebanon)
12:00 -12.15 Coffee break
12:30-14:00 Session VI
Chairperson: Richard Jacquemond, Université d’Aix-Marseille et IREMAM-CNRS (France)
“Resurrection in Arabic Horror and Fantasy Fiction”
Tania Al-Saadi, Stockholm University (Sweden)
“Arabic prose as a system of discourses”
Baian Rayhanova, Sofia University (Bulgary)
“Poétique de la biofiction dans Al-Ajnabiyya (L’Etrangère) de Alia Mamdouh”
Dounia Abourachid Badini, University Luiss (Italy)/ CERMOM (Inalco, France)
“Transtextual Postmodernism: Hassan Najmi’s Novel: Girtrud and Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”
Joshua Abdallah Sabih, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
“His/Storytelling : Glimpses on a few modern Arabic historical novels”
Hartmut Fähndrich, University of Bern (Switzerland)
"The Waste Town: Corruption and “Gentrification” from Morocco to Saudi Arabia as portrayed by Raja Alem and Muhammad al-Ashaaari”
Isabella Camera d’Afflitto, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
15:30-17:00 Session VII
Chairperson: Stephan Guth, University of Oslo (Norwey)
"Body Geographies – Experience and Space in Kamal al-Riyahi’s novel al-Ghurilla (The Gorilla)"
Charlotte Pardey Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)
“Arabic Popliteratur”
Peter Nicholas Konerding, University of Bamberg (Germany)
“Towards a Poetics of the Hawamish. Reading the Egyptian Novel by Footnotes”
Mohammed Metwally, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
“Kifaya literature: Contemporary Egyptian Future Novels And The Power Of Text”
Amr Aboelsoud, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
“Between individual and collective memory: Prison testimonies in contemporary Moroccan literature”
Tina Dransfeldt Christensen, Roskilde University (Denmark)
15:30-17:00 Session VII BIS
Chairperson: Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
“Jamil Almansur Haddad and the paradoxes of an identity in transition”
Christina Queiroz, Sao Paolo University (Brazil)
" Du griot au cri : Une approximation à la poésie sahraouie contemporaine"
Laura Casielles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
“Re-defining identity in exile: an analysis of the Saudi novel Al-Arjuha by Badriyya Bishir”
Mercedes Melchor Velayos, Insitute of Mediterrenean and Neasr East Languages and Cultures (Spain)
“The poetic voice – A singular circulation and reception case: Mudhaffar al-Nawwab”
Fatima Sai, University of Salento (Italy)
“Syria and the reception of Surrealism: Siryal 1947 vs. Radio SuryaLi 2012”
Arturo Monaco, La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
17:00 -17.15 Coffee break
17:30-18:45 Session VIII
Chairperson: Hartmut Fähndrich, University of Bern (Switzerland)
“The Postmemory Paradigm in Salman Natur’s Dhakira”
Simone Sibilio, Universty Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Italy)
“Quête de territoire dans Learning English de Rashid al-Daif”
Katia Ghosn, University Paris &CERMOM, Inalco (France)
“Between Fantasy and ‘Science Fiction’: Saudi Culture and Society Throughout the Eyes of a Jinn”
Ada Barbaro, La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
17:30-18:45 Session VIII BIS
Chairperson: Xavier Luffin, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
“The study of Arabic poetry as multimodal texts on YouTube: challenges and perspectives”
Lorenzo Casini, Università degli Studi di Messina (Italy)
“Les constantes et les mutations dans les œuvres romanesques des écrivaines soudanaises – le cas de deux romans écrits à 60 ans d’intervalle.”
Roula Nabulsi, INALCO (France)
“Manifestations of Western Modernism and Christian Symbolism in Jabra I. Jabra's Novels and Short Stories”
Samir Hajj, Beit-Berl Academic College/ Oranim College, Haifa
“Embodied Identities in the Egyptian Blogosphere”
Teresa Pepe, University of Oslo (Norway)
18:45 Writers’ testimonies: Sinan Antoon
20.45 Meeting at Puerta del Sol (bottom of the clock) / 21:00 Meeting at the restaurant for dinner
Saturday, May 11th
La Corrala, cultural center, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
10:00-12:00 Session IX
Chairperson: Sobhi Boustani, INALCO (France)
“Le roman policier arabe, un genre qui finit par émerger ?”
Richard Jacquemond, Université d’Aix-Marseille et IREMAM-CNRS (France)
"Comic books, graphic novels and Egyptian culture: Arab spring as a catalyst"
Dinar Khayrutdinov, Kazan Federal University (Russia)
“The Emergence of the Arabic Literature in Saharan Africa: the case of Somalia”
Xavier Luffin, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
“The 99 in Comic: Islamic Superheroes?”
Susanne Enderwitz, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“World Literature after Orientalism. The Enduring Lure of the Occident”
Hafez, Sabry, Qatar University (Qatar)
12:00 -12.15 Coffee break
12:30
EURAMAL General Assembly and Elections