Session led by Jordan K. Skinner (Princeton University) Not only is the essay one that has drawn interdisciplinary attention—from the film criticism of Christian Metz to the narratology of Gérard Genette—but it also presents two problems of translation that would make for an interesting discussion. The first translation problem can be found with the term…

Presented by Nadia Sherbini. L’académicien français Pierre Loti, dont l’œuvre d’inspiration autobiographique est connue pour être nourrie de ses voyages, s’est lié d’amitié avec l’écrivain, orateur et personnage politique égyptien, Mustafa Kamel, avec lequel il partage un intérêt pour la défense des causes justes. Cette conférence explore ce lien d’amitié et analyse leur traitement (forme…

Presented by Rachel Friedman. Discourse about language figures prominently in the classical Arabo-Islamic tradition. Scholars in the 9th and 10th centuries CE developed a robust body of thought on a set of interrelated topics that include the properties of language, the means by which it signifies, and its origins. One of the principal foci of…

Presented by Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios. This article explores Henry Lefebvre’s theory of social space as a mediating force between capitalism and the imagined worlds it offers. According to Lefebvre, a mode of production is only affirmed as such and only merits this name if it has given rise to a space (and a social time) (217).…

Presented by Hanna Chuchvaha This presentation will explain how the modernist art periodicals, World of Art (Mir Iskusstva, 1899-1904), The Golden Fleece (Zolotoe runo, 1906-1909) and Apollo (Apollon, 1909-1917), the symbols of the print revival in late Imperial Russia, altered the understanding of periodical culture, influenced graphic design and established the conception of ideal book…