9.00–9.15 Registration. 
9.15–9.30 Welcome Remarks. Speakers: Marina Warner and Philip Kennedy.

I. Remembering the Corpus

9.30–10.15 Overview of the project, difficulties, ideals, scope, historical context. Speakers: Philip Kennedy and Tahera Qutbuddin lead discussion with Geert Jan van Gelder and Joseph Lowry.

Focus on Classical Arabic Literature, edited and translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder, and The Epistle on Legal Theory, by Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shāfiʿī, edited and translated by Joseph E. Lowry.

10.15–11.00 Different genres embraced by LAL and modes of writing. Speakers: Julia Bray and James Montgomery lead discussion with Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Beatrice Gruendler and Shawkat Toorawa.

Focus on Two Travel Books, by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī and Ahmad Ibn Faḍlān, edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and James Montgomery; Consorts of the Caliphs, edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa and translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature; and The Life and Times of Abū Tammām, by Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī, edited and translated by Beatrice Gruendler.

11.00–11.15 Coffee

11.15–12.00 LAL's importance to comparative literature and ways of reading.

Speakers: Marina Warner leads discussion with Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, Wen-chin Ouyang and Matthew Reynolds.

Focus on The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volumes One and Two, by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, edited and translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler; and The Principles of Sufism, by ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūnīyah, edited and translated by Th. Emil Homerin.

II. Editing the Corpus

12.00–13.00 Methods and approaches to establishing the texts, linguistic difficulty, history of transmission, literary character, audience.

Speakers: Michael Cooperson leads discussion with Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, Tahera Qutbuddin and Devin Stewart.

Focus on Virtues of the Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volumes 1 and 2, by Ibn al-Jawzī, edited and translated by Michael Cooperson; Disagreements of the Jurists, by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, edited and Translated by Devin Stewart; and Consorts of the Caliphs, edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa and translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature.

13.00–14.00 Lunch

III. Translating the Corpus

14.00–15.30 LAL's remit, ambition and complexity.

Speakers: Philip Kennedy and Richard Sieburth lead discussion with Roger Allen, Humphrey Davies, Marilyn Booth and Robyn Creswell.

Focus on Leg Over Leg: Volumes 1-4, by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies, and What 'Isa Told Us, or, A Period of Time: Volumes One and Two, by Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, edited and translated by Roger Allen.

IV. Reading the Corpus

15.30–17.00 LAL's contribution to cultural diplomacy, diffusion, literary exchanges, and education.

Speakers: Wen-chin Ouyang and Chip Rossetti lead discussion with Philip Kennedy, Julia Bray. Robert Irwin and Mohamed-Salah Omri.

Focus on The Expeditions, by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, edited and translated by Sean W. Anthony, and A Treasury of Virtues, by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī, edited and translated by Tahera Qutbuddin.

17.00 Tea

Followed by a concert in St John's Auditorium: Maya Youssef, kanun player