9:00- 9:25: Arrival and Coffee
9:25- 9:35: Opening Remarks – Jonas Elbousty
9:40- 10:20: Keynote Address:
Sufi Discourse and Translatability: Two Arabic Historical Novels
Roger Allen, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
10:20- 10: 35: Coffee Break
10:35- 12: 15
Panel: The Problematics of Arabic Literary Translation
Chair: Sam Hodgkin, Yale University
Vulgar Eloquence: The Ethics of Translating Vernaculars
Qussay Al-Attabi, Harvard University
Out of Tune: Music, Migration and Translatability
Ikram Masmoudi, University of Delaware
12:15-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30-3:00
Roundtable: Modern Arabic Poetry and Translation
Chair: Roger Allen, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Akram Alkatreb
Firas Sulaiman
Samantha Kostmayer Sulaiman
Hussam Jefee-Bahloul
Fadi Saad
3:00- 3:15: Coffee Break
3:15- 5:00
Poetry Reading
Firas Sulaiman
Samantha Kostmayer Sulaiman
Hussam Jefee-Bahloul
Fadi Saad
Akram Alkatreb
Jonas Elbousty
5:00- 5:50
Prose Reading from recent translations
Roger Allen
Ikram Masmoudi
Jonas Elbousty
5:50- 6:00 Closing remarks