Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

206. Semitic/Romance

10:15–11:30 a.m., Nob Hill B, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature

Presiding: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Univ. of Toronto

1. “The Death of Esau: Rome, Remus, and Romance in a Medieval Midrash,” Ruth Nisse, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln

2. “In Search of Avicenna’s Legendary Oriental Philosophy in Medieval Castile,” Ryan Szpiech, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Orbits: Toward a Mediterranean Literary History,” Karla Mallette, Miami Univ., Oxford

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