Tradition and Transition in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Cultures
Sunday 24th June-26th June 2012
Joint Conference with the Open University of Israel
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Sunday 24 June 2012
18.15 Opening remarks
- Hagit Messer-Yaron (President, The Open University of Israel)
- Bat-Zion Klorman-Eraqi (Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, Muslims, The Open University of Israel)
- Lars Fischer (Academic Director, CJCR)
- Ora Limor (former Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Open University of Israel)
19.15 for 19.30'The fair maiden': Sephardi songs from Muslim lands. A lecture given by UCL's Hilary Pomeroy with musical illustrations from Lucie Skeaping and Jon Banks (of The Burning Bush, http://www.theburningbush.co.uk/).
Monday 25 June 2012
Morning panel: 9.00-10.30
Refreshments: 10.30
Morning reading session: 11.00-12.30
Space (Panel Chair: Josef Meri, CMJR, Woolf Institute)
- Ishay Landa (The Open University of Israel), Anti-Dionysus: a Judaeo-Christian critique of the Nietzschean space
- Joachim Schlör (Southampton), Beyond the secularization paradigm – the creation of urban space through religious practice in 19th century Europe
- Laura Vaughan (UCL), Urbanity, discontinuity and diversity: the significance of place in Jewish East London
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon panel: 14.00-15.30
Refreshments: 15.30
Afternoon reading session: 16.00-17.30
Family (Panel Chair: Shana Cohen, CMJR, Woolf Institute)
- Tali Artman (Hebrew University and The Open University of Israel), Prostitution? (Not) in my family! On community boundaries and the sacred
- Maria Diemling (Canterbury Christ Church), Wet-nursing as a case study in Jewish-Christian relations
- Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman (Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, Muslims, The Open University of Israel), Polygamous practices: tradition in Yemen, transition in Palestine
18.00 Keynote lecture: Ada Rapoport-Albert (Head of Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London), Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Mystical-Messianic Doctrine of Jacob Frank (1726-1791)
19.30 Drinks
20.00 Conference dinner
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Morning panel: 9-10.30
Refreshments: 10.30
Morning reading session: 11.00-12.30
Art & Music (Panel Chair: Merav Rosenfeld Hadad, University of Cambridge)
- Ophir Münz-Manor (The Open University of Israel), Ut Pictura Poesis? On the connections between liturgical poetry and mosaic pavements in late antique churches and synagogues
- Lars Fischer (CJCR), Adorno and the Bilderverbot
- Aaron Rosen (KCL and CJCR), The changing face of Abrahamic hospitality
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon panel: 14.00-15.30
Refreshments: 15.30
Afternoon reading session: 16.00-17.30
Exile (Panel Chair:Bat-Zion Klorman-Eraqi, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, Muslims, The Open University of Israel)
- Amer Alhafi (Al al-Bayt University), Exile in the Holy Qu’ran
- Mustafa Kabha (The Open University of Israel), The fall of the Arab-Muslim state in Spain and the evolution of its themes in Arab-Muslim historiography throughout the generations
- Haggai Erlich (Tel Aviv University and The Open University of Israel), Christianity, Islam, Judaism – Ethiopia, exile and interreligious conceptualization
17.30 Closing remarks
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