All of the talks will be online at 5pm Eastern Time (with the exception of the last talk at 1pm ET) to be conducted over Zoom.
February 2
5:00pm: Opening Remarks by Anthea Butler, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
5:15pm Opening Panel
Jack Tannous (Princeton), “Religion and theology: What difference does it make?”
Muriel Debié (EPHE, PSL & Institut universitaire de France), “Discussing politics and religion among the Arabs in pre-Islamic time”
Marion Holmes Katz (NYU), “An age of faith? The paradoxes of studying pre-modern Islam”
Chair: Jamal J. Elias
February 9
Eve Krakowski (Princeton), “Religion and everyday writing across the first millennium: The case of Hebrew-script documents”
Chair: Steven Weitzman
February 16
Valentina Grasso (ISAW), “The mobilization of faith and the politics of identities: Islam’s scripturalist antecedents in Arabia”
Chair: Joseph Lowry
February 23
Suleiman Mourad (Smith College), “Decentering Islam: Orthodoxy, orthopraxy & heresy in the Middle Ages”
Chair: Paul M. Cobb
March 2
Harun Küçük (UPenn), “‘If only he who condemns my religion were himself a Muslim’: The problem of belief in seventeenth-century Istanbul”
Chair: Reyhan Durmaz
March 16
Paul Heck (Georgetown University), “Emotions in classical Islam: Becoming one’s own religious authority”
Chair: Donovan Schaefer
March 23, 1pm (ET)
Heleen Murre – Van den Berg (Radboud), “Republic of letters: A minority perspective on religious change in an interconnected (Ottoman) world”
Chair: Megan Robb
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University of Pennsylvania, Department of Religious Studies