Early Career seminar, Cambridge 2015
The 3rd joint graduate workshop between CRIS, CUPRiH and Goethe Universität Frankfurt has taken place in Cambridge on May 26th-28th 2015. The workshop continuted the former year's overarching theme of The Dynamics of Interreligious Interaction.
Conference Programme and Timetable:
Tuesday 26th May
6.00 Lecture by Lord Winston at St. John's College: “The Science of God”
8.00 Dr Lena Salaymeh (TAU): “Rethinking the Comparison of Jewish and Islamic Law”.
Wednesday May 27th Audit Room, King’s College
10-11.00 Kate Nichols (CU): A Dark and Kingly Jew in the Fresh Prime of Manhood': the Interreligious Dynamics of Late Victorian Bible Painting.
11.30-12.30 Merav Schnitzer (TAU): The Key of the Treasure: Jewish and Christian Women's Adornment in the Medieval City.
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.30 Yosi Israel (TAU): Satanic Doctrine or the Cradle of the Church: The Converso Crisis of the Fifteenth Century and the Discovery of the "Rabbinic" Origins of Christianity.
3.00-4.00 Jesse Zink (CU): Writing a New Religious History: Religious Change among the Dinka in Sudan's Second Civil War.
4.30-5.30 Yolanda Yavor (TAU): The Identity of Abraham's Intended Sacrifice in the Quran.
Thursday 28th May Audit Room, King’s
9.30-10.30 Ulrike Kleinecke (GUF): Perceptions of Christianity in American Jewish Thought: The Case of Eliezer Berkovits
11.00-12.00 Mike Golan (CU): A Conflict of Law: Baghdadi Jews and the British Empire
12.30-1.30 Yedidah Koren (TAU): Those Who May Not Enter the Congregation: Community, Prostitution and the Demonic In Early Judaism and Christianity.
1.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.30 Yael Fisch (TAU): Hermeneutics of Unveiling, Hermeneutics of Modesty: 2 Corinthians 3 on the Veiling of Moses in Exodus 34:29-35 and its Resonance in Rabbinic Hermeneutics
4.00-5.00 Shinjini Das (CU): Imperial Apostle : St Paul, Protestantism and Conversion in British India.
6.00 Mirav Rosenfeld on Israeli and islamic musical interfaces
