Rescheduled for fall 2026. 

The workshop interrogates the historicity and changeability of genre concepts, centering the semantics and pragmatics of genre in the pre-modern Arabic literary tradition (up to the early nineteenth century). Beyond analyzing terms and concepts as well as their meanings and uses, we ask how fictionality is indicated and negotiated within and across genres, in order to better grasp the boundaries of literary discourse in premodern Arabic.

See here for more details in Arabic.