The Dynamics of Interreligious Interaction, Cambridge 2014
A joint graduate workshop between CRIS and CUPRiH has taken place in Cambridge on May 25th-28th 2014. The topic of the seminar was The Dynamics of Interreligious Interaction.
Conference Timetable:
Sunday 25th May
Professor Miriam Leonard (University College, London): Jews and Greeks in Nineteenth-Century European Intellectual Thinking.
Monday 26th May
Wine Room, King’s College
9.00-10.00 Avital Davidovich-Eshed: The Virginal Body as a Site of Inter-Religious Struggle in Medieval Jewish Culture
10.15-11.15 Oz Aloni: North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic: Language and Folklore in a Religiously Varied Environment - The Case of Yosef Ve-ʾEḥav.
11.45-12.45 Alessia Belucci: The "Dream Request" in Jewish Tradition
2.00-3.00 Anwaar Jabr: Religious Transformations - The Western Wall of Jerusalem
3.15-4.15 Naor Ben-Yahoyda: The Mediterranean terms of inter-religious affinity
4.45-5.45 Shai Ferraro: Connecting Wicca with radical feminism and Goddess Spirituality in Britain, c. 1970 - c.1990
Tuesday 27th May
Meeting Room, CRASSH
9.45-10.45 Reuven Leigh: Tolerance of Religious Jewish and Christian Philosophers in Modern European Philosophy
11.15-12.15 Iqbal Abd el Raziq: The Quranic Hanif
12.30-2.00 Theo Dunkelgrun: "The Masoretic text as a site of Jewish-Christian encounter in the 19th century"
2.30-3.30 Omer Michaelis: Crisis Discourse and Interpretative Revolutions in Medieval Jewish Culture
3.45-4.45 Alison Knight: Defacers or Defenders? Renaissance Christian Proponents of Jewish Textual Scholarship
5.00-6.00 Yael Fisch: Paul and Rabbinic Midrash: the case of Romans 10: 5-13
6.30-7.00: Lecture: Jeremy Morris, Dean, King’s College; Master Elect, Trinity Hall.