CRIS and CUPRiH Graduate Seminar, Cambridge 2014

A joint graduate seminar 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 25^th May

Professor Miriam Leonard (University College, London): Jews and Greeks in Nineteenth-Century European Intellectual Thinking.

Monday 26^th 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 27^th 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.