Prof Wen-chin Ouyang: The Curious Life of Objects in the Arabian Nights, SOAS, University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 15/12/2014

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This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Wen-chin Ouyang titled "The Curious Life of Objects in the Arabian Nights" took place at SOAS, University of London on 3 December 2014.

The Curious Life of Objects in the Arabian Nights: what can food, gems and clothes tell us about cultural encounters, will trace the ways in which jade and silk figure in literary texts, and consider the role of literature in memorializing cultural encounters. 

Wen-chin Ouyang is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature. She was born in Taiwan, raised in Libya, and educated in Libya and the United States of America.