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Schedule

 Note: This schedule is tentative.  As proposals for talks and panels are received, the plenary sessions may be readjusted.

SUNDAY JUNE 23, 2013

3:00 PM Registration
   
5:00 PM Opening Remarks
   
5:30 PM Plenary panel
   Moderator: 
 Nathan Kollar
     
  Rabbi Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary
  Leonard Swidler, Temple University
  Muzammil H. Siddiqi, Fiqh Council of North America
     
   
7:00 PM Dinner and opening address
   Moderator:   
       
  Father Tomas Michel, Georgetown University
     

MONDAY JUNE 24, 2013

 7:00 AM Breakfast 

 8:30-10:00 AM SESSION ONE 

 
Teaching and Learning: Scriptural Reasoning
Moderator:  Michael Dobkowski



William W. Young
    Listening Through Texts

Steven Kepnes
    Scriptural Reasoning as a Method of Inter-Religious Dialogue
   Rabbi
 Gilbert Rosenthal
     
   
The Doctrine of               Umot Ha-Olam
 Salvation 
 and the Jewish concept of Hasidei
 
Thematic Readings: Chosen-ness, God, Creation
Moderator: Susan Novak

Peter J. Haas
    From Chosen to Choosing: For Whom Was the Revelation at Sinai?

Abdulla Galadari
    Reconciling Incarnation of God and Creation of Human Flesh: A Dialogue between the Qur'an and Bible Using Inter-textual Polysemy in Hermeneutics

Shalahudin Kafrawi
    Abrogation and Supersession: Exegetic Tradition on Q.S. 13:37-39
Individual and Communal Dialogue: Politics and Theology
Moderator: Ibrahim Siyar

Robert F. Shedinger
    Jesus and Jihad: The Politics of the Sacred and Christian-Muslim Dialogue

Kenan Cetinkaya
    Three Contemporary Turkish Perceptions of Interfaith Dialogue

Josh Mugler
    The Light of Muhammad that Enlightens All: Sahl at-Tustari and Jaques Dupuis
 10:00 AM Break 

 10:30AM-NOON SESSION TWO 

 
Teaching and Learning: Film
Moderator: Syed M. Sayeed
  Sharon Albert and Lora Taub-Pervispour
     Exploring Islam Through Film
Individual and Communal Dialogue: Origins
Moderator: Thomas Donlin-Smith

Jonathan Lawrence
    Which Came First: The Dialogue or the Trust?  Reflections on Dialogue in Buffalo’s Interfaith Community?

Ariana Patey
    God Made Man

George Heyman
    Adam and Eve in the Garden: Iblis, a Talking Snake, and God
Gender: Islam and Christianity 
Moderator: Melonie May

Meriem El Haitami
    Feminist Readings of the Qur'an and the Production of Textual Meaning

Etin Anwar
    Woemen in the Qur'an

Suraiya IT
    Mary in Islamic and Christian Tradition

NOON: Lunch and  address: 

James W, Watts, Syracuse University
  Scriptures in Three Traditions in Three Dimensions

1:30-3:00 PM SESSION THREE

 
     
   
Teaching and Learning: Torah and Testament
ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION: Moderator

Michael Dobkowski and Richard Salter
Ritual, Worship, and Liturgy: Christians Looking Outward
Moderator: Father William Graf

Denise Yarbrough
    Preaching the Great Commission of Matthew's Gospel: Interreligious Opportunity or Nightmare?

Demetrios E. Tonias
    From the Springs of Israel: The Jewish Bible and Eastern Christian Liturgy

David A. Stosur
    The New English Translation of the Mass
Thematic Readings: Nation, Person, and Nature
Moderator: Iqbal Unus

Mustafa Gokcek
    Qur'an as a Discursive Tool in Late Ottoman Debates on Nationalism

Zeki Saritoprak
    Revisiting the Qur'an's Chapter 49:13

John Kaltner
    Nature as Muslim: Applying a Qur'anic Concept to the Bible
 3:00 PM BREAK 

 3:30-5:00 PM SESSION FOUR 

 
     
   
Differing Cultures: Translation, Dialogue, Behavior
Moderator Douglas Cullum

Badmus N.o. Abdulazeez
    Merits and Demerits of of Translated Scriptures: A Case Study of the Yoruba Translation of the Qur'an

J. Murray Watson
    Translation for Transformation: André Chouraqui and His Unique Contribution to Interfaith Dialogue and Friendship”

Abdul Malik Mujahid
    A Street Theology of Anger
Individual and Communal Dialogue: Peace, Actions, Interpretations
Moderator David Hill
  Pim Valkenberg
    Models of Peace-Oriented Interpretation of the Scriptures
  Musharraf Hussain al-Azhari
    Study of the Qur'anic Imperative "So Race to do good": 70 ways to Interfaith Work
  Hussam S. Timani
    Reading Scriptures in the 21st Century: Negotiating the Qur'an


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Differing Cultures: Sex, Contrition, Conversion
Moderator Rebecca Mays
  Michael D. Calabria
    Zualaykhā and Aseneth: Pagan Paragons of Contrition and Conversion
  Jonah Yunus Kumek
    Effect of Islamic Sacred Teachings in the Life of American Muslims
  Fahad Alhomoudi
    Remarks on the Second Oldest Hadith Manuscript, Nuskhat Waki B. al Jarrah al-Ruassi

Thematic Readings: Spirituality and Interpretations
Moderator Lawrence Hargrave

Julianne Hazen
    Sacred Texts and the Sufis in New York

Chris Van Gorder
    Freirean Insights for Muslim and Christian Interactions

Andrii Krawchuk
    Responses to a Common Word: Scripture as a Basis for Orthodox-Muslim Dialogue

Ghada Abdel Moniem Ibrahim


Ideological Connotations of the inscription of Goma's Masjad in Isfahan

6:00 PM: Dinner and address

Elaine Pagels, Princeton University
    Apocalyptic and Warfare in Sacred Texts

8:00 PM Abrahmaic Musical Traditions: a Concert

TUESDAY JUNE 25, 2013

 7:00 AM Breakfast 

 8:30-10:00 AM SESSION FIVE 

 
Individual and Communal Dialogue:  Creation, the World, and God
Moderator

Faith Harpci
    A Common Word: Global Faith and Pluralism in Islam

Hans Gustafson
    Vexation and Promise in the New Testament: Interpreting Pantheistic Passages and Their Implications for Interfaith Discourse

Yakir Englander
    From Human to Divine and Back Again: Religion as Instrument for Self-Critique and Self-Esteem
Thematic Readings: Qur'anic Readings and Human Unity
Moderator

S. Ali Saddiqui
    The Role of the Sacred Texts of Islam in Uniting but not Dividing Humanity

Scott Morrison
    The Interstices of Law: Equity (Istihsan) and the Qur'an

Daniel Bannoura
    Qur'anic Readings of the Psalms
Thematic Readings: Human Hatred and Compassion
Moderator

David Carlson
    A Post-9/11 Ethic Based on Matthew 25:31-46 and Hadith 1172     

Vanessa J. Avery
    Humans Left Alone: The Book of Esther and the Vicious Cycle of Scapegoating

Sona Grigoryan
    The Status of the Gospel According to Ibn Taymiyyah
 10: AM BREAK 

 10:30AM-NOON  SESSION SIX      

 
   
Differing Cultures: Interpretive Consequences
Moderator

Hakan Çoruh
    Modern Qur'an Exegesis, the Concept of Jihad and Cross-Religious Unification

David Aune 
    Ways of Salvation: Confessional Particularity in New Testament Exclusivist Texts

Marinus C. Iwuchukwu
    Navigating  Between the Extremes of Exclusivism  in Christian and Islamic Sacred Texts: The Case for Inclusive Pluralism
Thematic Readings: Evil, Pluralism, and Institutions
Moderator

Rabbi Daniel Lehrman
    If Brutality is Human

John McCarthy
    Sacred Texts and Sacred Pluralities

Romana Manzoor
    The Interplay Between People of Abrahamic Faiths in the Development of Theological Language and Academic Faculties

NOON-2:00 PM Lunch and Concluding Plenary Dialogue

  Rabbi Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary
  Leonard Swidler, Temple University
  Muzammil H. Siddiqi, Fiqh Council of North America

3:30  PM TRIP  TO NIAGARA FALLS (FAMILIES ARE WELCOME)

 

 

 

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