Saturday, October 15, 2:30 pm–4:30 pm
Oklahoma North
This live event will not be recorded.
Chair: Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)
2:30 pm
Scheherazade Comes to Town: Representations of Arab and Arab American Women in Alia Yunis' The Night Counter
Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
3:00 pm
Sofia Aleksandrovna Will Certainly See: Images of the "Folk" in War and Peace
Isabella Palange (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
3:30 pm
"Do not mention gravy!" Food in the Writing of Okie Poet Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Karen Neurohr (Oklahoma State University)
4:00 pm
Arabian Nights Tales: Written, Read, Told, and Re-Told by Hannā Diyāb
Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)
Assembled Panel