Overview
In bringing together leading scholars and performers of the Abbasid, Byzantine, Fatimid, Crusader, Jewish, Persianate, and Ottoman traditions, this conference seeks to engage three major themes: the power of patronage to affect and inflect performance modes in comparison with other settings; the ways court performers express emotion and invite emotional response in their audiences; and how performance often blurs the line between oral and written traditions.
Dates
February 27-28, 2012
Location
Intercontinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Conference Conveners
Maurice Pomerantz Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYUNY
Evelyn Birge Vitz Professor of French, NYUNY
Agenda
February 27, 2012
| 9:00-9:30 AM | Coffee & Registration | |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Opening Remarks | |
| 10:00-11:00 AM | Panel I: Court Performance Remembered and Recalled | |
| 11:00-11:30 AM | Break & Refreshments | |
| 11:30 AM-1:00 PM | Panel II: Speech, Etiquette, and Courtly Negotiations | |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Poetry in Performance | |
| 2:30-4:00 PM | Panel III: Performing and Re-Performing Genres | |
| 4:00-4:30 PM | Break & Refreshments | |
| 6:30-8:30 PM | Performance Traditional Arabic Music: Between History and Modern Performance George Sawa Qānūn Performer; Historian of Arabic Music Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi |
February 28, 2012
| 9:00-9:30 AM | Coffee & Registration |
| 9:30-11:30 AM | Panel IV: Speaking to Princes |
| 11:30 AM-12:00 PM | Break & Refreshments |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Panel V: The Passions, Animal |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00-2:45 PM | Performance on the Ūd |
| 2:45-3:45 PM | Panel VI: The Passions, Human |
| 3:45-4:15 PM | Break & Refreshments |
| 4:15-6:15 PM | Panel VII: Varieties of Performance |
