Oslo, February 13, 2016

Dear colleague After Circular_2 had already given you a general idea about some practicalities, this third circular comes with some more details. 1) The URL of the conference homepage is https://euramal12th.wordpress.com/

Information about EURAMAL in general is to be found at http://www.euramal.eu/

2) Please find attached (below) a (provisional) list of the papers that have been accepted for the 12th Euramal meeting. Internal arrangement into panels etc. will not be done before May until.

3) Bank details to be used for payment of membership & registration/conference fees • Please

make your payment by the 31st of March (at the latest) to the following bank account:

Acc. holder Stephan Guth

IBAN DE65 1203 0000 1035 8681 71

BIC BYLADEM1001

Subject/ text "EURAMAL"

Within Germany, the internal acc.no. 1035868171 at DKB Deutsche Kreditbank AG (BLZ 120 300 00) will also work fine.

As a default, registration is done via payment. You pay, so you are registered. Whenever

possible, please use this method. (It is not impossible to pay in cash on arrival. However, if you prefer to have it this way, please send us a message, by the 31st of March at the latest, saying that you will participate – otherwise calculation of logistics becomes difficult.)

If we receive neither payment nor a positive registration message, the presentation you have announced risks to be relegated to the end of a conference day.

Please note that papers only can be given if membership and conference fees are paid.

Bi-annual membership: 80 € (reduced for students, etc.: 40 €)*. Payment of membership fee entitles to participation in EURAMAL activities, among which also the 2016 meeting.

Registration and conference fee: 70 € (reduced 35 €)*. This fee covers welcome cocktail, free coffee & snacks, light lunch (sandwiches etc.) during the whole conference, as well as the official conference dinner.

The DEFAULT payment will be 150 € (reduced 75 €)* (membership + registration/ conference fee).

*Reduced fees for students without funding from their home university, or for fellows from countries

with weak economy, etc. Please apply to the organizers for reduction.

4) Not yet a EURAMAL member? • Please apply for membership by sending

(a) an informal cover letter and (b) your CV, incl. research profile and list of publications

to the EURAMAL President (sobhi.boustani@wanadoo.fr) and the Secretary (stephan.guth@ikos.uio.no).

Proceed as if you were already accepted (i.e., make the due payments, etc.). Your application and performance on the conference will be discussed among the Board, who then will suggest your name to the General Assembly for acceptance (usually a formality).

No (or difficult) funding for your trip? • Student members and others who face difficulties in obtaining the necessary funding for their trip and participation in the conference may apply for a subsidy from the organizers. Applications should be sent to the Secretary (stephan.guth@ikos.uio.no), briefly explaining your situation. For the time being, we cannot guarantee that subsidies can be granted at all; in any case, they will certainly not cover all your expenses. Should the organizers receive ample funding the available surplus will be distributed on equal terms.

5) "In 2016" workshop • Immediately our Euramal meeting, from Sunday 29 May (morning) until

Monday 30 May (lunch / early afternoon), a smallscale workshop connected to the "In 2016" project will be held. The aim of this project (located at Oslo UiO and about which you will find more detailed information here) is to provide a kind of ‘encyclopedia of 2016’, enabling users, in a snapshot portrait of one year, to ‘jump right into’ and move around (via cross-references) in post-revolutionary Arab realities; a tool that allows readers to approximate the experience of ‘how it feels’ to live in the Arab World in this period of transition and historic change. Does this sound interesting? If so, please let us know (by 31st March) whether you would like to attend (as a listener, on own budget). Here are some more details: Workshop title: Living 2016—Cultural Codes and Arrays in Arab Everyday Worlds, five years after the “Arab Spring” Aims: The workshop brings together researchers who share an interest in everyday life and popular culture in the contemporary Arab world, with a particular focus on Egypt and Tunisia. It is conceived as a first, small-scale working meeting in the framework of the “In 2016” project and an opportunity for a direct exchange between researchers who would like to contribute to this project or do so already via the “In 2016 Researchers’ Notebook”. In contrast to the overwhelming focus on political and security issues that dominates not only Western media reporting but also much of the research on the contemporary Middle East, the “In 2016” project places the socio-cultural sphere at the core of its interests. It aims to foreground salient aspects of the everyday life, the concerns and the expectations of ordinary Arabs five years after the 2011 uprisings. Instead of assuming that 2011 is a threshold year and the 2011 uprisings are a turning point, the project deals with ordinary time lived by ordinary people. The target year – 2016 – was chosen on this basis, when it was still to come. The arbitrariness of this choice aims to enable a look at cultural dynamics without a prefixed set of topics and a pre-oriented reading frame. The purpose is to identify phenomena that are, or have the potential of becoming, cultural trends or ways of life, as well as concepts used by people to categorize and structure their experiences and to locate themselves in space and time. This approach takes its intellectual inspiration from Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s book In 1926, in which the cultural atmosphere of that year is described according to two main categories: codes and arrays. In defining these categories, Gumbrecht illustrates their mutual links as well as their potential, as frames to deal with both everyday life and culture: “There are certain artifacts, roles, and activities (for example, Airplanes, Engineers, Dancing) which require human bodies to enter into specific spatial and functional relations to the everyday-worlds they inhabit. Borrowing a word first used within the context of historical research by Michel Foucault, I call such relations – the ways in which artifacts, roles, and activities influence bodies—dispositifs, or arrays. Coexisting and overlapping in a space of simultaneity, clusters of arrays are often zones of confusing convergence, and they therefore tend to generate discourses which transform such confusion into the deparadoxifying form of alternative options (say, Center vs. Periphery, or Individuality vs. Collectivity, or Authenticity vs. Artificiality). Since identifying the binary codes in which such discourses are grounded turns out to be surprisingly easy, and since they provide principles of order within the unstructured simultaneity of everyday-worlds, one might reserve the concept of ‘culture’ for the ensemble of such codes. This would be an alternative to a recent tendency to use the notion of ‘culture’ as coextensive with ‘everyday-worlds’—a usage in which the concept becomes too large to allow for any distinctions” (Gumbrecht, In 1926, p. 434). Researchers are encouraged to read their own ongoing observations through these lenses, in order to propose a first reflection on the arrays and codes that characterize 2016 Egypt and Tunisia. Given the kaleidoscopic nature of the research object, an interdisciplinary perspective is necessary. The workshop is open to sociologists and anthropologists, geographers and political scientists, literary experts and historians interested in contributing to shed light on a particular aspect of everyday life and popular culture in these Arab countries.

Presentations © = candidate for EURAMAL membership, please send your application (if you still haven’t done so) pending, to be confirmed paper in the framework of the "In 2016" workshop, 29-30 May (preceding EURAMAL)

Surname Name Affiliation Title

1. Abdel Nasser© Tahia AUC The Contemporary Arabic Novel in the Post-Human World

2. Abdel-Malek Kamal American University of RAK, UAE

Monsters Are Human: Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad

3. Aboelsoud Amr Free University of Berlin The Relapse into the State of Nature in Aḥmad Khālid Tawfīq’s Novel Yūtūbiyā

4. Aghsain© Abdellatif CNMS, Marburg The Meaning of Speaking in the „Empire of Silence“: Aesthetic subversive

strategies in the work of Zakariyā Tāmir

5. Al Saadi Tania Stockholms Universitet “Here you can bury your dead” – The virtual cemetery in the novel Ṭišārī by

Inaam Kachachi

6. Albers© Yvonne CNMS, Marburg The many ends of the Nahḍah: On the Arab cultural magazine after 1967 and

the case of Mawāqif

7. Allen Roger University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA The End of the Nahḍah?

8. Barbaro Ada Sapienza Università di Roma You'll be mine for ever: the human longing for eternal life in a novel that

explores the future

9. Barzaghi Edoardo Tawasul, Oman Living someone else’s life and the quest for authenticity in Samīr ʿAbd al-

Fattāḥ’s Tumās, ḥayāt uḫrā

10. Botros Atef (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Doha Institute

Dematerializing Prison: Writing Resistance Through Virtual Walls

11. Censi Martina Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia Ṭābiq 99 (2014) by Ǧanā Fawwāz al-Ḥasan: Revolutionary Love, Identity and

Humanity

12. Christensen Tina D-feldt Roskilde University A world of monstrosity and inverted martyr narratives: Hassan Blasim’s The

Iraqi Christ (2013)

13. Czerska-Saumande

Dominika INALCO, Paris Traditional and modern visions of humanity in the contemporary world in the

poetry of Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum

14. Dozio© Cristina Università degli Studi di Milano Contemporary and Traditional Characters in Bilāl Faḍl’s Satirical Writings

El-Ariss Tarek UT Austin (→ "In 2016" workshop, 29-30 May)

15. Fähndrich Hartmut ETH Zürich Humor – Irony – Satire – Bitterness? Ḥusayn al-Wād’s novel Saʿādatuhu… as-

sayyid al-wazīr

16. Fernandez Parilla

Gonzalo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Frankenstein in Baghdad—from Gothic to Gore

17. Fischione© Fernanda Sapienza Università di Roma Irony, black humour, sarcasm and cynism in contemporary Arabic rap: a text-

based analysis

18. Ghandour Sabah University of Balamand,Tripoli ?

19. Ghosn Baddoura Katia INALCO, Paris Transgression et polysémie dans le roman noir al-Fīl al-azraq (L’Eléphant bleu)

de Aḥmad Murād

20. Gottesfeld© Dorit Bar Ilan Changing Spaces: Reading the Novel Confusing the Stork by Akram Musallam

21. Guth Stephan Universitetet i Oslo (On the "In 2016" project)

22. Gutiérrez de Terán Gómez-Benita

Ignacio Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

: زائرية املعارصةالهتمك اجلنايئ والسخرية السوداء يف الوراية اجل مرزاق بقطاش أ و عابر السبيل اذلي يصور موته

23. Hajj Samir Beit-Berl Haifa Ṭishārī: Diaspora and Exoticism in the novel of In‘am Kajey Jey

24. Heshmat Dina AUC Intertextuality in a dystopic reality: Awān al-Qiṭāf by Maḥmūd al-Wardānī

25. Issa© Rana University of Oslo Oikos: Towards a Dystopic Theory of Political Subjecthood in the Near Future

Jacquemond Richard Univ. Lyon (→ "In 2016" workshop, 29-30 May)

26. Junge Christian CNMS, Marburg Aren’t we all humans in the end? A Post-Humanist Satire of Revolutionary

Alexandria by Nāʾil aṭ-Ṭūkhī

27. Khoury Moussa Birzeit University الإنسان اس تعادة املاكن، اس تعادة: الصباح قهوة تعد ايفا

28. Konerding Peter Nicholas

Universität Bamberg اللغة يف اجلزائر" هنضة"لواسيين ال عرج و" أ صابع لوليتا"رواية

29. Kraiche R-Z© Victoria ... Heritage of Palestinian Resistance Culture Promoters: Poets of the Generation

of 1967 and Rap and Protest Song Today

30. Lang Felix Philipps-Universität Marburg Mediating Otherness: the Author Figure of the 'Arab Writer' in the Euro-

American Intellectual Field

31. Lenze Nele NUS, Singapore Poetry as protest culture in Bahrain

32. Mejcher-Atassi Sonja American University of Beirut Unpacking Wannous in Light of Radical Political Change

33. Metwally Mohammed FU Berlin / Cairo Univ. Scattered Limbs and the World: Reading the ‘Organic’ in Contemporary Arabic

Novels

34. Milich Stephan Universität Köln The Politics of Fear and Terror: Mechanisms of Dehumanization in the

Contemporary Egyptian Novel (al-Ṭābūr, by Basma ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz)

35. Monaco Arturo Sapienza Università di Roma Muʿāraḍat al-karāǧāt: Luqmān Dayrkī and ʿAbbūd Saʿīd together to tarnish

writers’ reputation

36. Morén© Jonathan Uppsala University Inverting the Stranger: Salīm Barakāt in the Land of the Living Dead

37. Nabulsi Roula Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

La plus belle histoire au monde - roman de Maysaloun Hadi

38. Naguib© Assmaa The British University in Egypt, Cairo Grappling with Trauma in Wiʾām al-Tamāmī’s Memoirs

39. Nassif© Dani Univ. Münster Responsibility towards the Dead during the Syrian War: a close reading into al-

Mawtu ‘amalun shāqq

40. Omri Mohammed-Salah

University of Oxford Writing torture

41. Ottosson - al-Bitar

Astrid Stockholms Universitet The strange and the familiar in outer space: A reading of the SF novel Ajwān

(2012) by Nūrā Aḥmad al-Nuʿmān

42. Paniconi Maria Elena Università di Macerata How death is lived through: A Reading of Ḍarīḥ Abī (2013) by Ṭāriq Imām

43. Pannewick Friederike Philipps-Universität Marburg “We are doomed by Hope”—Humanism and Violence in Saʿdallāh Wannūs’

Play “The Rape” (al-Ightiṣāb)

44. Pardey Charlotte Philipps-Universität Marburg Writing about Death— Thinking about Tunisia. Deceased, Ghosts and

hauntology in Two Tunisian Novels

45. Pepe Teresa Universitetet i Oslo Representations of the Post-human in Istikhdām al-Ḥayāh (Using Life, 2015) by

Aḥmad Nājī and ʿUṭārid (Mercury, 2015) by Muḥammad Rabīʿ

46. Rooke Tetz Göteborgs Universitet From the Tent to the Skyscrapers – Gender and Liminality in the Works of

Mīrāl al-Ṭaḥāwī, with a special focus on the novel Brooklyn Heights (2010).

47. Ruocco Monica Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Rāwiyāt de Mahā Ḥasan: métamorphose et réincarnation comme dernière tentative pour préserver la vie

48. Sabih Joshua Dept. of Cross Cultural & Regional Studies, Copenhagen University

Investigating the politics of Crime and its Typology

49. Sai Fatima University of Salento/ Università di Napoli l’Orientale

Flesh and Blood: Necropolitics of literature

50. Said© Walaa’ Inst. of English and American Studies, Marburg

Aḥmad Khālid Tawfīq’s Utopia (2008) and Muḥammad Rabīʿ’s ʿUṭārid (2014): Resistance in Hell

51. Shraim© Iyad Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Post-Human Transformation via Genetic Engineering in Arabic Science Fiction Literature

52. Shuyskaya Natalya M. Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Arab reality through the lens of the contemporary Arabic novel

53. Sibilio Simone Libera Università degli Studi Sociali LUISS Guido Carli, Roma

A Syrian “Panorama of death and loneliness”: the martyrdom, the body, and the self in Rashā ʿUmrān’s poetry

54. Starkey Paul Durham University Resurrecting the Caliphate: Yūsuf Rakhā and the collapse of the Ottoman State

55. Viviani Paola Seconda Università di Napoli What Does Fiction Tell us about Morocco Today? Shortlisted Moroccan Novels

at IPAF

56. Winckler Barbara FU Berlin / Universität Münster

(Re-)Turn Towards the Past in the Face of an Inhumane World: Questions of Vulnarability and Unstable Identities in Recent ʻHistoricalʼ Novels

57. Zanelli Patrizia LUSPIO University / Ca’ Foscari, Venezia

Egyptian Humour, Satire and Self-irony in Mona Prince’s Doktora M.’s Life and Adventures

58. Zghouli© Hafid CNMS, Marburg Fiction as Counter-History: Fictionalising the Story of Forgotten

Revolts in a Moroccan Novel

59. Ziajka Stanton© Anna UT Austin, USA Arabic Prize-Winning Novels and the Problematic Ethics of World Literature