Alexander the Great and Iskandar: Dialogues on Medieval Reception

Preliminary Program DAY 1 4-4:30 Opening Remarks 4:30-5:30 Keynote: David Zuwiyya Filling an Imperfect Form: The Hero’s Birth, Destiny, and Death in the Spanish Alexander Romances 5:30-7 Reception DAY 2 9:15 Coffee, introductory remarks 9:30-10:45 Dialogue 1: Authority and Alexander Conquest and Consort: The Politics of Alexander’s Marriages in Medieval Islamic Writings / Blain Auer Candace and Other Women in the Malay Alexander Romance / Su Fang Ng 11-12:15 Dialogue 2: Alexander in India When Kṛṣṇa Faced a Greek Hero: Alexander and His Legacy in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa? / Steven Smith ‘Our souls are brighter than your own’: Cleophis Candace and India in the Historia de preliis / Russell Stone 12:15-1:30 LUNCH BREAK 1:30-2:45 Dialogue 3: Alexander and the Narrative of Imagery Miniatures in the French-Prose Alexander tradition: from narrative to narrator / Maud Simon Seafaring in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Iskandarnamahs / Sunil Sharma 2:45-3 COFFEE BREAK 3-4:15 Dialogue 4: Re-writing Alexander Whose Authority Is It Anyway? Alexander in the Twelfth Century / Venetia Bridges Alexander and Persianate Humanism in the Shahnameh / Owen Cornwall 4:15-5:30 Student panel Chair: Sunil Sharma Dina Famin Katie Harmon Riana Richani Andrea Guttormsen Wetzler Emily Yoder

When 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 19 March 2026
Building 745 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA