Stories to Connect: Stories and History in the Islamicate World

Stories to Connect: Stories and History in the Islamicate World

The power of stories is a point of discussion in all areas of knowledge, both at policy level and in academia. Lawyers lament the fossilization of “big case” stories to the detriment of using real-life, contemporary stories and cases. Fiction writers emphasize the importance of stories as instruments of truth. Historians argue that “narratives have changed history and influenced the mindsets of generations.”

 

Workshop details

Arezou Azad

Julia Bray

Hugh Kennedy

Confirmed Speakers

  • Hugh Kennedy (SOAS - London)

  • Arezou Azad (Oxford / Inalco - Paris)

  • Julia Bray (Oxford)

  • Enass Khansa (Beirut)

  • Simon Berger (Paris, CNRS)

  • Robert Hillenbrand (Oxford)

  • Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University)

  • Guy Ron-Gilboa (Bar-Ilan)

  • Isabel Toral-Niehoff (FU Berlin)

Chairs

Edmund Herzig (Oxford)

Arezou Azad (Oxford / Inalco - Paris)

Umberto Bongianino (Oxford)

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS - London)

Respondents

Teresa Witcombe (Oxford)

Sarah Savant (AKU - London)

Akshaj Awasthi (Oxford)

Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS - London)

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Corpus Christi College, Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JF

Workshop programme

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