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."
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Workshop details
Arezou Azad
Julia Bray
Hugh Kennedy
Confirmed Speakers
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Hugh Kennedy (SOAS - London)
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Arezou Azad (Oxford / Inalco - Paris)
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Julia Bray (Oxford)
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Enass Khansa (Beirut)
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Simon Berger (Paris, CNRS)
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Robert Hillenbrand (Oxford)
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Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University)
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Guy Ron-Gilboa (Bar-Ilan)
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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)
Corpus Christi College, Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JF
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