Thursday, October 26, 2017 | 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Student Union, Ballroom, 2110 Hillside Rd, Storrs, CT 06268
Please join us at this inaugural symposium to launch UConn’s Abrahamic Programs in the Middle East/North Africa Region.
SCHEDULE
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:15 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Daniel Weiner, Vice President for Global Affairs and Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut, USA
Zaid Eyadat, Department of Political Science, University of Jordan; Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, USA
Jeffrey Shoulson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Doris & Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut, USA, University of Connecticut, USA
9:30 AM Session I - Intercultural Encounters
Mohammed Abattouy, Professor of History & Philosophy of Science, Mohammed V University, Morocco
Ronald Kiener, Professor of Religious Studies, Trinity College, USA
Daniel Lasker, Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values, Ben Gurion University, Israel
10:45 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM Session II - Sciences: Reception & Translation
Nadir El-Bizri, Professor of Philosophy, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Brian Long, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Canada
Nicola Carpentieri, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Connecticut, USA
Joseph Ziegler, Associate Professor of History and Director of the School of History, University of Haifa, Israel
12:15 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM Session III - Revelations: Polemics & Prophesies
Alexander Fidora, Research Professor, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Andrea Celli, Assistant Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies, University of Connecticut, USA
Mayte Green-Mercado, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
Ahmed Chahlane, Professor Emeritus, Mohammed V University, Morocco
3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM Session IV - Geographies & Mobilities
Daniel Hershenzon, Assistant Professor of Early Modern Spanish & Mediterranean History, University of Connecticut, USA
Seth Kimmel, Assistant Professor of Latin American & Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, USA
Benjamin Liu, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of California - Riverside, USA
Pier Tommasino, Assistant Professor of Italian, Columbia University, USA
4:45 PM Concluding Remarks
Jeffrey Shoulson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Doris & Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut, USA, University of Connecticut, USA
Zaid Eyadat, Department of Political Science, University of Jordan; Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, USA
5:00 PM Reception
Fuente: http://abrahamicprograms.uconn.edu
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