Inaugurating the Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics.
Monday, 19 December, 2022
Drachlis Hall, Gilman building, room 496
10:00-12:00 Session 1
Menachem Fisch (TAU)
The Trading Zones of Interreligious Studies Commentators: Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (GU) and Avital Davidovich-Eshed (TAU)
Moderator: Nehama Verbin (TAU)
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-15:00 Session 2
Armina Omerika (GU)
Constructions of Islamic History in Modern Muslim Religious Thought: A Relational Perspective Commentators: Frederek Musall (Heidelberg) and Florian Zemmin (Berlin)
Moderator: Camilla Adang (TAU)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Session 3
Barbara U. Meyer (TAU)
Before Creation: Interreligious Dynamics of the Logos, Sophia, the Spirit, the Torah and the Qur’an Commentators: Adam Afterman (TAU) and
Ahmad Igbaria (TAU)
Moderator: Ishay Rosen-Zvi (TAU)
The Jaglom Auditorium, The Senate Building
17:30-18:15 Reception
18:15-19:00 Greetings and Signing Ceremony
Prof. Ariel Porat, TAU President Prof. Enrico Schleiff, GU President Prof. Christian Wiese (GU)
Prof. Menachem Fisch (TAU)
Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
Drachlis Hall, Gilman building, room 496
10.00-12.00 Session 4
Youval Rotman (TAU)
Boundaries and Borderlines in Multi-religious Environments
Commentators: Hartmut Leppin (GU) and
Nurit Stadler (HUJI)
Moderator: Jeremy Cohen (TAU)
12.00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:30 Session 5
Yossef Schwartz (TAU)
Divine Logos in Translation: Between Interlanguage and Interreligious Dimensions
Commentators: Simon Goldhill (CU) and
Iris Idelson-Shein (BGU) Moderator: Ilit Ferber (TAU)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 Session 6
Christian Wiese (GU)
Religious Positioning: Perspectives on Plurality, Difference, and Dialogism in Modern Jewish Thought Commentators: Karma Ben-Johanan (HUJI) and Benjamin Pollock (HUJI)
Moderator: Galili Shahar (TAU)
18:00-19:30 Roundtable Discussion
Impacting the Field – The Interreligious Approach
Armina Omerika Barbara U. Meyer Yossef Schwartz Christian Wiese
Moderator: Omer Michaelis (TAU)
Moderator: Prof. Milette Shamir, TAU Vice-President
19:00-20:30 Keynote Lecture