International symposium: Around the Poetics of Averroès

CERMOM is pleased to invite you to the international colloquium: Autour de la Poétique d'Averroès, to be held on Wednesday June 17 and Thursday June 18, 2026.

Illustration tirée de Kalīla wa-Dimna, mentionné par Averroès dans son Commentaire à la Poétique © gallica.bnf.fr/Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Arabe 3465, f. 15v‎

Wednesday, June 17

INALCO, Dumézil auditorium

9:30am- Welcome

10am - Opening

Frédérique Woerther (CNRS) - Loïc Bertrand (INALCO)

Historical background, philosophical antecedents

10:30 am - Brief political and cultural history of al-Andalus, Emmanuelle Tixier du Mesnil (Université Paris-Nanterre)

11:15 am - Takhyīl between literature and psychology in Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd's Poetics, Feriel Bouhafa (Universitär Würzburg) & Johannes Stephan (Freie Universität Berlin)

Pause

Traditions poetics

2:30 pm - Reconsidering Averroes' Poetics and balāgha Ryan Milov-Córdoba (Scripps College)

3:15 PM - Poetic quotations from Averroes' Middle Commentary to the Poetics, ou la persistance du modèle éthique arabe au siècle almohade, Brigitte Foulon (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle)

Thursday, June 18

INALCO, salon Borel

Logic and linguistics

10h - The invention of names: What impact does it have on Averroes' theory of names as well as on his Poetics? Aïcha Belabid (INALCO)

10:45am - Averroes grammarian: Chapter 7 from the Middle Commentary to the Poetics,Francesco Binaghi (Sorbonne Université) & Léonard Bertin (Inalco)

Pause

Heritages and receptions

2:30pm - From Hebrew to Latin: Translators and Readers of Averroes' Middle Commentary on Poetics in the Renaissance, Francesca Gorgoni (Bar-Ilan University)

15:15 - The modern reception of the Middle Commentary on Poetics, du Cinquecento à Borges, Guillaume Navaud (Lycée Henri IV)

Conclusions

Organization :

Loïc Bertrand (Inalco-CERMOM)
Frédérique Woerther (CNRS)