International Workshop “Magic and the Manipulation of ‘Nature’ in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu Narratives”

When:

2023年09月05日 @ 10:00 – 18:00 Asia/Tokyo Timezone

2023-09-05T10:00:00+09:00

2023-09-05T18:00:00+09:00

Where:

Seminar Room 4, National Museum of Ethnology

Global Mediterranean at the National Museum of Ethnology

Date	Sept. 5(tue) 2023
Venue	Seminar Room 4, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Language	English
Co-organizers	NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, National Museum of Ethnology). KAKENHI “The Natural and the Supernatural in Comparative Perspective” (18H03573, Yuriko Yamanaka)
Registration	Registration Form　Until August. 21(mon) 2023
Inquiry	E-mail: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com （Please replace [at] with @）

Program

10:00-10:30	Opening remarks by Yuriko Yamanaka（National Museum of Ethnology） “Where Lie the Boundaries of ‘Nature’?”
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) “Alexander’s Miraculous Transformation in the Darab-nama”
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