Arabic Pasts: Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography 2013
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 20 September 2013Time: 12:00 AM
Venue:
Type of Event: Conference
Note: Internal event not open to external attendees.
Session 1 | Chair: James McDougall, Trinity College, Oxford |
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| 9.45am - 11am | Julia Bray, St John’s College, OxfordWelcome and introduction: Thoughts on history and social memory in the Middle East and North Africa Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of LondonIbn Hawqal and the economic history of the Abbasid caliphate |
| 11am-11.30am | Coffee |
Session 2 | Chair: Julia Bray, St John’s College, Oxford |
| 11.30am - 1pm | Antoine Borrut, University of MarylandEarly Islam between memory and oblivion Sarah Bowen Savant, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan UniversityPatronizing Iran’s pre-Islamic past |
| 1 pm - 2pm | Lunch |
Session 3 | Chair: Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, University of London |
| 2pm - 4.15pm | Marie Legendre, Oriental Institute, OxfordForgetting the conquest: Egyptian subjects of the early Islamic state and the making of the “Copts” Isabel Toral-Niehoff, AKU-ISMC, LondonCaliphs, Astrology, Christian monks and Ancient prophecies: The foundation legends of Baghdad in context Graham Barrett, St John’s College, OxfordRemembering Hispania |
| 4.15pm - 4.30pm | Tea |
Session 4 | Chair: Sarah Bowen Savant, AKU-ISMC, London |
| 4.30pm-6pm | Ed McAllister, St Antony’s College, OxfordMemories of state in Bab el-Oued Malika Rahal, CNRS-Institut d’histoire du temps présent, ParisTime standing still in a country without a past : Algeria, 2011-2013 |
Workshop convened by: Dr Sarah Bowen Savant (sarah.savant@aku.edu), Julia Bray (julia.bray@orinst.ox.ac.uk), Dr Konrad Hirschler (kh20@soas.ac.uk), and Dr James McDougall (James.McDougall@trinity.ox.ac.uk). There is a limited budget for travel and accommodation.