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<\/p>\nJoin us for the 6th Annual Big Fat Books Symposium, showcasing “The Thousand and One Nights.” It will take place on Friday, April 5th from 9:30am-6:00pm in STH 625 (745 Comm Ave, 6th floor).<\/p>\n
“The Thousand and One Nights” is a seminal text for world literature. Its authorless collage premodern Islamicate literary genres (prophets’ lives, travelogues, mystical love lyrics, wine songs) has inspired adapters and literary innovators in every medium and style.<\/p>\n
Continuing WLL’s Big Fat Books tradition and welcoming translator-poet Yasmine Seale, this symposium will explore the magic of the Nights through the sources, translations, rewritings, and film versions that have enchanted audiences in Asia, Europe, and beyond.<\/p>\n
See the poster below for the symposium schedule.<\/p>\n
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Schedule:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 9:30-10:00<\/strong> – BREAKFAST Join us for the 6th Annual Big Fat Books Symposium, showcasing “The Thousand and One Nights.” It will take place on Friday, April 5th from 9:30am-6:00pm in STH 625 (745 Comm Ave, 6th floor). “The Thousand and One Nights” is a seminal text for world literature. Its authorless collage premodern Islamicate literary genres (prophets’ lives, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15857,"featured_media":18308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18352,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18302\/revisions\/18352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n10:00-10:10<\/strong> – WELCOME
\nMargaret Litvin & Catherine Yeh
\n10:10-11:00<\/strong> – SOURCES OF THE NIGHTS
\nModerated by Sunil Sharma
\nHaci Osman G\u00fcnd\u00fcz – An Unlikely Arabic Source for the Nights
\nPeter Schwartz – Your Pretty Dervish is Going to Hell
\n11:00-11:15<\/strong> – COFFEE
\n11:15-12:05<\/strong> – 1001 NIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
\nModerated by Margaret Litvin
\nAbigail Gillman – The Nights in Jewish Literature
\nRoberta Micallef – The Nights as a 21st-Century Turkish Transmedia Story
\nSunil Sharma – The Return of the Nights to Persia and India
\n12:05-1:00<\/strong> – LUNCH
\n1:00-2:15<\/strong> – THE NIGHTS AND WORLD LITERATURE
\nModerated by Anita Savo
\nKeith Vincent – Proust and the Nights
\nYoon Sun Yang – Early Colonial Korean Nights
\nCatherine Yeh – Chinese 1001 Nights Translations
\nAnna Zielinska-Elliott – Murakami, Scheherazade, and the Power of Storytelling
\n2:30-4:30<\/strong> – KEYNOTE: TRANSLATOR AND POET YASMINE SEALE
\nAlways Almost: Approaching The 1001 Nights (Part of the Translation Seminar, CAS \/ 725 Comm Ave \/Room 306)
\n4:45-5:45<\/strong> – STUDENT PANEL
\nModerated by Haci Osman G\u00fcnd\u00fcz & Margaret Litvin
\n6:00<\/strong> – RECEPTION<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"