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SUMMARY:A Practical Guide to Classical Arabic Poetry: Tools for Understand
 ing Form and Meaning\, Art and Function
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DESCRIPTION:Kindly contact Tahera Qutbuddin (tahera.qutbuddin@ames.ox.ac.u
 k) to confirm attendance. \n\nConference Program: \n\n7 July 2026 – St J
 ohn's College\, Oxford\n\n09:00–09:10 Welcome Remarks – Tahera Qutbudd
 in\, Kevin Blankinship\, Nathaniel Miller\n09:10–09:50 Tahera Qutbuddin 
 (Oxford) – Meter and Rhyme\n09:50–10:30 Tahera Qutbuddin – Balāghah
 : The Art of Eloquence\n10:30–10:50 Refreshment Break\n10:50–11:30 Hil
 ary Kilpatrick (Lausanne) – Poets as People\n11:30–12:10 Beatrice Grue
 ndler (Free University\, Berlin) – Performance and Reader Response\n12:2
 0–13:50 Lunch\n14:00–14:40 David Larsen (New York University) – Imag
 ery\n14:40–15:20 Nefeli Papoutsakis (Munster) – The Functions of Poetr
 y in Society\n15:20–15:40 Refreshment Break\n15:40–16:20 Kevin Blankin
 ship (Brigham Young University) – Lexicons\n16:20–17:00 Kevin Blankins
 hip – Translation\n\n8 July 2026 – St John's College\, Oxford\n\n09:00
 –09:40 Geert Jan van Gelder (Oxford) – Genres\, Themes\, Motifs\n09:40
 –10:20 Geert Jan van Gelder – The Sound of Arabic Poetry\n10:20–10:4
 0 Refreshment Break\n10:40–11:20 Nathaniel Miller (Denver) – Theoretic
 al Approaches\n11:20–12:00 Nathaniel Miller – Minor Genres\, Fun Facts
 \n12:05–13:35 Lunch\n13:45–14:25 Marlé Hammond (SOAS) – Women's Voi
 ces\n14:25–15:05 Theodore Beers (Drexel) – The Relationship between Ar
 abic & Persian Poetry\n15:05–15:25 Refreshment Break\n15:25–16:05 Bila
 l Orfali (American University of Beirut\, online) – Anthologies\n16:05
 –16:45 Yaron Klein (Carleton) – Music\n\n9 July 2026 – St John's Col
 lege\, Oxford\n\n09:15–09:55 Julia Bray (Oxford) – Form and Structure\
 n09:55–10:35 Julia Bray – Emotions\n10:35–10:55 Refreshment Break\n1
 0:55–11:35 Nathaniel Miller and Theodore Beers – Digital Humanities\n1
 1:35–11:50 Stefan Sperl (SOAS) – Conference Response
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LOCATION:St John's College - New Seminar Room\, New Seminar Room St John's
  College St Giles Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3JP United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Tahera Qutbuddin\, Kevin Blankinship\, Nathaniel Miller\, Hilary K
 ilpatrick\, Beatrice Gruendler\, David Larsen\, Nefeli Papoutsakis\, Geert
  Jan van Gelder\, Marlé Hammond\, Theodore Beers\, Bilal Orfali\, Yaron K
 lein\, Julia Bray\, Stefan Sperl
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