International Workshop “Magic and the Manipulation of ‘Nature’ in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu Narratives”
2023.07.31
| Date / Time | Tue 5 Sep 2023 10:00–18:00 |
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| Venue | in person at Seminar Room 4, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (10-1 Senribampakukoen, Suita-shi, Osaka, 565-8511, Japan) |
| Registration |
Pre-registration required. → Registration *Please sign up by 12:00 [GMT+9], 21 August 2023 [Mon]. |
| Admission | Free (260 yen will be charged if one does not register in advance from the link above.) |
| Language | English |
| Jointly sponsored by | NIHU Global Area Studies Program “Global Mediterranean at the National Museum of Ethnology” and “Global Mediterranean at ILCAA”; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A) “The Natural and the Supernatural in Comparative Perspective” (Principal Investigator: Yuriko YAMANAKA (National Museum of Ethnology) Project number:18H03573) |
| Contact | gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (Secretariat of the Global Mediterranean Project at ILCAA) Please change [at] to @. |
Program
| 10:00–10:30 | Opening remarks Yuriko Yamanaka（National Museum of Ethnology） “Where Lie the Boundaries of ‘Nature’?” |
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| 10:30–11:00 | Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (University of Edinburgh) “Witchcraft and the Supernatural in Iranian National History” |
| 11:00–11:30 | Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “The Narrative World of the Persian Dastan Vis-à-vis the Binary of Reality and Fantasy” |
| 11:30–12:00 | Christine Kämpfer (University of Bamberg) “The Role of Magic and Otherworlds in Khvaju’s Humay-u Humayun” |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00–15:00 | Museum visit |
| 15:00–15:30 | Ulrich Marzolph (University of Göttingen) “Magic in the Thousand and One Nights” |
| 15:30–16:00 | Pasha M. Khan (McGill University) “Epistemologies of the Qissah Genre and the Challenge of Western Disenchantment” |
| 16:00–16:30 | Break |
| 16:30–18:00 | Discussion |