Symposium Schedule
Working event schedule (to be finalized):
To access pre-circulated readings, please email mest@indiana.edu OR use this link.
Friday, January 25 (Global Studies 3067)
2:00 - 3:30pm
- Scott Johnson (University of Oklahoma): “Syriac, Christian Origins, and Romanization”
- Abby Kulisz (Religious Studies, IU): “Textual Meetings, Textual Feelings: Rewriting the ‘People of the Book’ in Late Ancient Dispute Texts”
3:30pm — Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:15pm
- Maia Kotrosits (Denison University): “When Authenticity Goes Deep: Anatomizing Cultural Purity in the Proto-gospel of James”
- Asma Afsaruddin (NELC, IU): “Jihad and Religious Minorities in the Siyar Literature: The Diachronic View”
Saturday, January 26 (CAHI House)
9:00 – 10:30am
- Sara Ronis (St. Mary's University): “The Magical Arab and the Wandering Jew in Sasanian Babylonia”
- Nicolò Sassi (Religious Studies, IU): “The Textual Ways of Religious Promiscuity”
10:30-10:45am — Coffee Break
10:45-12:15pm
- Kevin Jaques (Religious Studies, IU): “Divine Images, ‘Polytheism,’ and the Dīn of Ibrāhīm: Did Some Early Muslims Continue to Venerate Divine Images into the 2nd Islamic Century?”
- Sarah Ifft Decker (Jewish Studies, IU): “Acculturation and Its Discontents: Jewish Family Law and Christian Legal Culture in Medieval Catalonia, 1250-1350”
12:15pm — Lunch provided for all attendees; RSVP to mest@indiana.edu
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