Agenda

Time	Event
9:30-9:45am	Registration Institute Conference Center (A6), Meeting Room Foyer, Room 110
9:45-10am	Welcome Remarks and Introduction Awam Amkpa, Dean of Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi
10-11:30am	PANEL I: The Abu Shadi Archive in Context Moderator: Brad Bauer, NYU Abu Dhabi
	Behind the Scenes: How an Archive Gets Made Joy Amina Garnett, Art Director, Evergreen Review
	How to Hide an Archive: The Alexandrian Case May Hawas, University of Cambridge
	A Response from the Archives Brad Bauer, NYU Abu Dhabi
	Q&A
11:30am-12pm	Break and Refreshments
12-1:30pm	PANEL II: Abu Shadi and his World Moderator: Muhamed Al Khalil, NYU Abu Dhabi
	Tagore in Egypt Clare Davies, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
	An International Evening in Port Said (1926): Abu Shadi and his Intellectual Networks Anthony Gorman, University of Edinburgh
	Fake It to Make It: The Ismail Edham Story Raphael Cormack, Durham University
	Q&A
1:30-3pm	Lunch Break
3-4pm	PANEL III: Tour of the Abu Shadi Collection at NYU Abu Dhabi Library Archives and Special Collections Hosted by: Brad Bauer, NYU Abu Dhabi Meet in front of Library, Campus Center (C-2), 3rd floor

Time	Event
9:30-11am	PANEL IV: Abu Shadi Literature Moderator: Guy Burak, New York University
	Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi and the Romantic Paradigm Robin Ostle, University of Oxford
	Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi and Sayyid Qutb: Intersections and Divergences in Life and Art Muhamed Al Khalil, NYU Abu Dhabi
	Migrating Archives of Migration Deborah Starr, Cornell University
	Q&A
11-11:30am	Break and Refreshments
11:30am-1pm	PANEL V: Abu Shadi the Polymath Moderator: Joy Amina Garnett, Evergreen Review
	The continuing history of Bee World - the bee research journal founded by Abushâdy Robert Brodschneider, University of Graz
	Paper title to be confirmed Daniel Lowe, British Library
	Dusé’s Parts, Abu Shadi’s Spectacles (Some Modernist Optics at the Limit of Egypt) Mostafa Heddaya, Princeton University
	Q&A
1-2:30pm	Lunch and Closing Remarks