[ecrea] Call for Abstracts (One Thousand and One Nights)

_Call for Abstracts_

*/One Thousand and One Nights : /**Comparative Perspectives on 
Adaptation and Appropriation*

/A conference funded by the Honeyman Foundation and the School of Modern 
Languages at the University of St Andrews/

University of St Andrews, 31 August – 1 September 2017

The proposed conference will try to bring old and new together by 
exploring parallels to and possible origins of tales of /1001 Nights/, 
as well as the wealth of modern and contemporary material that it has 
originated and continues to inspire.

Proposals (of no more than 250 words) for 20-minute papers that address 
the theory and practice of adaptations and appropriations of /1001 
Nights/ into any type of literary text and media are invited. Proposed 
papers shall bridge any borders imposed by time and space as well as 
genre, and - most of all – language, for what we know as /1001 Nights/ 
was born as a transnational text 300 years ago. The interest in the 
magical and wonderful world of these captivating tales lead to a 
significant reception of these tales all over the world. In the exact 
same manner, some of the “original” tales of those early translations 
were in circulation prior to the 9^th century in Baghdad. By collecting 
and incorporating earlier tales from other cultures and literary 
traditions while elaborating and appropriating them into the local 
culture in several cycles, the path was paved for the emergence of 
different editions of tales spanning up to 1,001 of the so-called 
/Arabian Nights/. At times, these tales are transformations of other, 
earlier tales, and at others, they have striking parallels with later 
tales which clearly demonstrates how entangled the literary world is – 
in past and present.

Participants shall present on various adaptations of /1001 Nights/, 
drawing parallels and highlighting the origin of their adaptation(s) in 
(and possibly the origin of) the original text traditions of the corpus. 
Through this, it will be possible to underline the dynamic nature and 
autonomous life that tales of /1001 Nights/ acquired and how they 
originated works like Edgar Allan Poe’s short parody, Jorge Luis 
Borges’s essays, Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 
symphonic suite, Henri Rabaud’s opera, Paolo Pasolini’s film, Hanan 
al-Shaykh and Tim Supple’s play, or Haruki Murakami’s short story which 
was translated and published in the/New Yorker/ in 2014.

The keynote speakers will be Prof Ulrich Marzolph (University of 
Göttingen), Dr Claudia Ott (University of Göttingen), and Prof Sinan 
Antoon (New York University). Presented and submitted papers will be 
peer-reviewed and those accepted are planned to be published in an 
edited volume.

Please submit your proposal to Dr Orhan Elmaz at (oe2 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(oe2 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)> by 31 October 2016. Authors will be 
notified of acceptance by 15 November 2016, and details regarding 
registration deadlines and fees will follow.


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