The Arabian Nights in Historical Context:
From Galland to Burton

A conference at the Clark Library, October 21-22 , 2005
Arranged by
Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum, UCLA

Friday, October 21
1:30 P.M.	Peter Reill - Welcome Session One - Literary Aspects Felicity Nussbaum - Chair Robert L. Mack, University of Exeter Cultivating the Garden: The Fate of Galland's Arabian Nights in the Later Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Khalid Bekkaoui, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco White Women and Moorish Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, Oxford University Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
4:30 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, October 22
9:30 A.M	Morning Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Peter Reill - Welcome Session Two - Adaptations Saree Makdisi - Chair Madeleine Dobie Columbia University Translation and the Contact Zone: Galland’s Mille et Une Nuits Bridget Orr Vanderbilt University Scheherezade on Stage: The Arabian Nights and English Theatre in the Eighteenth-Century Nasser Al-Taee University of Tennessee, Knoxville Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
1:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session Three - Contemporary Resonances Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum - Chairs Srinivas Aravamudan Duke University Oriental Adventure: From Narratology to Political Critique Nabil Matar Florida Institute of Technology The People of the Book and the People Without a Book in The Arabian Nights Maher Jarrar American University of Beirut The Reception of The Arabian Nights in the Modern Arabic Novel