Open Seminar with Sita Steckel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) and Ahmad Khan (American University in Cairo): Co-Producing Heresy
This seminar will be a kind of mini-conference on "Co-Producing Heresy," as a follow-up to our conference on this topic in September 2024. It will include two papers on this topic. First, Sita Steckel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) will speak on "Enemies within: Re-using inter-religious and anti-heretical polemic in the mendicant-secular controversy." Next, Ahmad Khan (American University in Cairo) will provide an answer to the question: "How did medieval Muslims think and write about heresy?"
Each presentation will be 45 minutes (30 min talk + 15 min discussion).
Conference: Co-produced Rituals between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Uncovering a Common Late Antique and Early Medieval Religious Culture
Organized by Caroline Bridel and Maureen Attali
Historical and anthropological studies often point out what they consider to be ritual similarities between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The study of both literary and material data suggests that many of those rituals originated from or developed upon practices performed by all inhabitants of the Roman and/or Sassanian empires. This workshop proposes to investigate the formation processes and early development and contexts of so-called Abrahamic rituals through the notion of religious co-production.
Click this link for the Call for Papers. Proposals are due by July 15, 2024.
Conference: The “Excluded Third” in the Co-Production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Organized by Mercedes García-Arenal, Katharina Heyden, David Nirenberg, and Davide Scotto
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are often understood as an ensemble of three (‘Abrahamic,’ ‘monotheistic,’ scriptural, or prophetic) religious communities and traditions. But often when adherents of two of these “sibling” religions interact, the third is treated as a figure to be marginalized, stigmatized, or instrumentally exploited vis-à-vis the others. This conference proposes to explore this dynamic of the excluded third.
Click this link for the Call for Papers. Proposals are due by June 1, 2024.
