PROGRAMME
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SATURDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2014
Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews
17:00 Registration, reception
17.30 Welcome by Convenors
Catherine Cobham (University of St Andrews)
Christine van Ruymbeke (University of Cambridge)
Kirill Dmitriev (University of St Andrews)
18:00-19.30 Lecture
The Impact of Abū Nuwās on Arabic and Hebrew Andalusian Poetry
Arie Schippers (University of Amsterdam)
20:00 Conference dinner (invited speakers only)
Macdonald Rusacks Hotel, Pilmour Links, St Andrews
SUNDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2014
Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews
9.30-10.00 Coffee/tea
10.00-12.00 Session 1: Arabic khamriyya
The Rhetoric of the Khamriyya in the Poetry of the Hudhayl tribe
Ali Hussein (University of Haifa)
The motif of wine in early Arabic ghazal: some observations on the poetry of Abū Ṣaḫr al-Huḏalī
Kirill Dmitriev (University of St Andrews)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session 2: Persian wine poetry
Ahl-i dhimmat as Facilitators of Muslim Transgression in Early Persian Wine Poetry
Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford University)
Of Fight and Feast: Antinomian Metaphors in Persian Iran-Iraq War Poetry
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Leiden University, via Skype, tbc)
18.30 Conference dinner (invited speakers only)
Hotel Du Vin, 40 The Scores, St Andrews
MONDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2014
Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews
9.30-10.00 Coffee/tea
10.00-12.00 Session 3:
Wine poems in Mamluk, Ottoman, Safavid-Mughal literature
The role of wine in Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār’s diwan
Hakan Özkan (Universität Münster)
Wine in Fuzūlī’s Poetry
Orhan Elmaz (University of St Andrews)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 The Circulation of the Astonishing Cup:
The Many Facets of Wine Imagery in Bedil’s Muḥīṭ-i A`ẓam
Hajnalka Kovacs (Stanford University)
The Wines of Ahmadnagar: Bacchic Themes and Court Culture in Ẓohūri’s Saqi-nāma
Paul Losensky (Indiana University, via Skype, tbc)
17:00-18.30 Lecture
The Wine-Drinking Party in Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Raymond Scheindlin (Jewish Theological Seminary New York)
19.00 Dinner
TUESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2014
Departure of the participants