an international
weekend conference on Arabic and Hebrew
Friday 8
October – Sunday 10 October 2004
Website: http://www.geocities.com/muwashshah
PROGRAMME OF CONFERENCE
10.00am
to 11.00am
OTTO
ZWARTJES [Oslo]: A Bibliography of
the muwashshahaat
MUHAMMAD IKRAAM ABDU-NOOR [Yale University]: “Andalusian Strophic Poetry
Between the Spoken and the Written: The Case of the Moroccan Andalusian Music
Tradition” [Summary]
11.00am to 11.30am: COFFEE BREAK
11.30am to 12.30pm
MARLE HAMMOND
[Oxford]: “He Desires Her? Situating Nazhun's muwashshaha in an
androgynous aesthetic of courtly love” [Summary]
GREGOR
SCHOELER [Basel]: “Neo-Persian
stanzaic poetry and its relation to the Arabic musammat”. [Summary]
2.00pm
to 3.30pm
SAADANE
BENBAABALI [Sorbonne]: “Love and
drunkenness in the muwashshsah as sung in the Maghreb”. [Summary]
FEDERICO
CORRIENTE [Zaragoza]: "The
metrical question: Which extended khalilean system?" [Summary]
ZVI MALACHI
[Tel Aviv]: “Muwashshahat in Edmond Jafil`s Diwan al-Aghani, Algiers”.
3.30pm
to 4.00pm TEA BREAK
4.00pm
to 5.00pm
DINA
DAHBANY-MIRAGLIA [CUNY] “The muwashshah
in Yemenite Jewish Women's Poem-Songs” [Summary]
YOSEF
TOBI [Haifa]: “Muwashshah
Muslim and Jewish Poetry in Yemen (15th-17th centuries)”
7.30pm
Conference Supper at the Sofra Restaurant, Covent Garden. All welcome to
attend. Address: 36 Tavistock Street, London WC2.
SATURDAY MORNING 9 OCTOBER
2004
10.00am
to 11.00am
LOURDES
ALVAREZ [US]: A paper on The
muwashshah in Andalus.
ZAKARIA ENANY [Cairo]
A paper on “The terminology of the muwashshahaat” [Summary]
11.00am
to 11.30am: COFFEE BREAK
11.30am
to 1.00pm
RICHARD
HITCHCOCK [Exeter]: A paper on “The
‘Romance’ kharjas retrospectively”. [Summary]
ANGEL
SAENZ-BADILLOS [Real Colegio
Complutense, Mass.] “The late development of Hebrew muwashshah in
Christian Iberia.” [Summary]
ULF
HAXEN [Denmark]: “A hitherto
unpublished Hebrew muwashshaha with an Arabic kharja.” [Summary]
1.00pm
to 2.30pm: LUNCH
SATURDAY AFTERNOON 9 OCTOBER
2004
2.30pm
to 3.30pm
KARIN
ALMBLADH [Uppsala]: "Nasimu
r-raudi faah: a muwashshaha and its contrafacts." A paper on mu´arada,
including a comment on a Sufi poem. [Summary]
ED
EMERY [UA]: A paper on “Maqamaat,
Machberoth and Shadow Plays” [Summary]
3.30pm
to 4.00pm: TEA BREAK
4.00pm
to 5.30pm
ANGELO
MICHELE PIEMONTESE [La Sapienza,
Rome]: "The muwashshah as an 'interwoven' poem, and its Persian
tradition" [Summary]
ARIE
SCHIPPERS [Amsterdam]: "Some
remarks on the muwashshahaat of Abraham ibn Ezra" [Summary]
MICHEL
SLEIMAN [Brazil]: "The long
panegyrical zajal of Ibn
Quzman". [Summary]
7.30pm:
!! MUWASHSHAHAAT Concert !! at the
Brunei Gallery Theatre, opposite Main Building, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London
WC1. [Details]
SUNDAY MORNING 10 OCTOBER 2004
10.30am
to 11.30am
OWEN
WRIGHT [SOAS, London] Preliminary
comments on “Musicological issues in relation to muwashshahaat”.
PHILIP
CIANTAR [University of Malta]: “Nostalgia,
History and Sheikhs in the Libyan ma'luf: Contemporary Meanings in the
Shadows of the Past”. [Summary]
11.30am to 12.00pm: COFFEE BREAK
12.00pm to 1.30pm
EDWIN SEROUSSI [Jerusalem]: “Medieval Hebrew strophic poetry in the musical
repertoires of the Moroccan Jews”. [Summary]
RUTH
DAVIS [Cambridge] with KATHRYN
STAPLEY [Oxford] : “Linguistic and musical aspects of the Tunisian ma'luf
” [Summary]
ANNA
PLAKHOVA [Novosibirsk] “The Rast maqam
in muwashshahaat” [Summary]
1.30pm to 2.30pm: LUNCH BREAK
2.30pm to 3.00pm
DWIGHT REYNOLDS [Univ. California]: “Ibn Sana´ al-Mulk´s Mysterious `Organ´ and the
Well-Composed Muwashshah: Two Musical Problems in Dar al-Tiraz” [Summary]
3.00pm to 3.30pm CLOSING SESSION: Goodbye till we meet again…