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Free and open to the public<\/p>\n
March 19th, 2026 \u2013 Keynote<\/u>
\n745 Commonwealth Ave, Room 625<\/p>\n
March 20th, 2026 \u2013 All-Day Symposium<\/u> 4-4:30 Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:30-5:30 Keynote:<\/strong> Filling an Imperfect Form: The Hero\u2019s Birth, Destiny, and Death in the Spanish Alexander\u00a0Romances<\/em><\/p>\n Q&A Moderator: Anita Savo (Boston University)<\/p>\n 5:30-7 Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:15 Coffee, introductory remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:30-10:45 Dialogue 1: Authority and Alexander Conquest and Consort: The Politics of Alexander\u2019s Marriages in Medieval Islamic Writings<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\/ Blain Auer 11-12:15 Dialogue 2: Alexander in India<\/strong> When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Faced a Greek Hero: Alexander and His Legacy in the\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Bh\u0101gavata Pur\u0101\u1e47a?<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\/ Steven Smith 12:15-1:30 LUNCH BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n 1:30-2:45 Dialogue 3: Alexander and the Narrative of Imagery<\/strong> Miniatures in the French-Prose Alexander Tradition: From Narrative to Narrator<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\/ Maud P\u00e9rez-<\/span>Simon 2:45-3 COFFEE BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n 3-4:15 Dialogue 4: Re-writing Alexander<\/strong> Whose Authority Is It Anyway? Alexander in the Twelfth Century\u00a0<\/span><\/em>\/ Venetia Bridges 4:15-5:30 Student panel<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Sunil Sharma<\/p>\n Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Absence of Bucephalus from the Persian Alexander Romances \/ Dina Famin<\/span><\/p>\n Alexander Three Different Ways: How the Tale of Gog and Magog Reveals an Author\u2019s Intentions \/ Kate Harmon<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhy A Protagonist\u2019s Most Significant Other is Their Antagonist:\u201d The Importance of Darius and Alexander\u2019s Dynamic in The Greek Alexander Romance<\/em> \/ <\/span>Riana Richani<\/p>\n Alexander goes North:\u00a0<\/span>Alexanders saga<\/i> and Medieval Norwegian Kingship \/ <\/span>Andrea Guttormsen Wetzler<\/p>\n Fluid Katabases: Death en Route to Legacy across the <\/span>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>The Greek Alexander Romance<\/i>, and\u00a0<\/span>Perceforest \/\u00a0<\/i>Emily Yoder<\/p>\n March 19-20, 2026 Free and open to the public Dates & Location March 19th, 2026 \u2013 Keynote 745 Commonwealth Ave, Room 625 March 20th, 2026 \u2013 All-Day Symposium 745 Commonwealth Ave, Room B23-24 Preliminary Program DAY 1 4-4:30 Opening Remarks 4:30-5:30 Keynote: David Zuwiyya Filling an Imperfect Form: The Hero\u2019s Birth, Destiny, and Death in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21862,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19856"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20281,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19856\/revisions\/20281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n745 Commonwealth Ave, Room B23-24<\/p>\nPreliminary Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n
DAY 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDavid Zuwiyya<\/strong><\/p>\nDAY 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/strong>Chair:<\/p>\n
\nCandace and Other Women in the Malay Alexander Romance<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\/ Su Fang Ng<\/p>\n
\nChair: Brandon Jones (Boston University)<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Our souls are brighter than your own\u2019: Cleophis Candace and India in the<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Historia de preliis \/ Russell Stone<\/p>\n
\nChair: Ines Garcia de la Puente (Boston University)<\/p>\n
\nSeafaring in Illustrated Manuscripts of <\/em>Iskandar Narratives<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\/ Sunil Sharma<\/p>\n
\nChair:<\/p>\n
\nAlexander and Persianate Humanism in the\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Shahnameh \/ Owen Cornwall<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"