The Lokahi Foundation & British Library
The Lokahi Foundation & British Library
Ways of Reading: Conference Programme 9th – 11th July 2007
Monday Evening 9th July 2007
Public Lecture 6.30pm – 8pm
Prof Tariq Ramadan (The Lokahi Foundation) Reading the Texts and Facing the Future
Tuesday 10th July 2007
Morning 9.30am-1pm
Ways of Reading: New Horizons
Prof Tariq Ramadan (The Lokahi Foundation) Reading the Qur’an in the horizon of today
Prof Oliver Davies (King’s College London) Living the Text
Dr Diana Lipton (King’s College London) Hebrew Bible attitudes towards other religions: surprising evidence from Isaiah 40-55
Afternoon 2.30pm-5.30pm
Reading the Scriptures in Social and Political Dimensions
Prof Christopher Rowland (University of Oxford) ‘To defend the Bible in this year 1798 would cost a man his life’: William Blake, the radicals and the politics of the Bible.
Prof R.S. Sugirtharajah (University of Birmingham) ‘Victorian lives of two Masters: Gautama and the Galilean.
Dr Deborah Sawyer (Lancaster University) ‘God, Adam & Eve.’ Creating gender in Genesis
Prof Yahya Michot (University of Oxford) The Grand Inquisitor and the Qur’ân: Avicenna, Ibn Taymiyya and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dr Ela Nutu (University of Sheffield) Illuminating Texts: The Bible and Artistic Tradition Judith through the eyes of women painters and their male contemporaries
Tuesday Evening: 10th July 2007
Public Lecture 6.30pm – 8pm
Dr Avivah Gottlieb-Zornberg to speak on Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth.
Wednesday 11th July 2007
Morning 9.30am-1pm
Texts, Law and Moral Challenge
Prof Mona Siddiqui (University of Glasgow) Logic and meaning in classical law
Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer (Chief Rabbi’s Cabinet) Sacred Text and the Challenge of Interpretation
Dr Ziba Mir-Hossaini (SOAS) Classical Islamic Jurisprudence, Modern Ethics and Gender Justice
Prof Bernard Jackson (University of Manchester) The "Chained Woman" in the Jewish law of divorce
Prof Robert Gleave (University of Exeter) The legality and illegality of abortion in the Shari’a
Afternoon 2.30pm-5.00pm
Faith communities reading the Scriptures
Dr Raphael Zarum (London School of Jewish Studies) “You can’t say that!” – The limits of interpretation within a faith community
Prof David Ford (University of Cambridge) Deep Differences, Oceans of Meaning and a New Collegiality: The Experience of Jews, Christians and Muslims Reading their Scriptures together
Dr Ben Quash (University of Cambridge) Scriptural Cities & How to be a good Citizen of Them
The conference will take place at the Conference Centre, British Library 96 Euston, London NW1 – 2DB (nearest tube: King’s Cross St Pancras & Euston)
Tickets – £20 per day (£15 concessions) or £35 both days (£25 concessions)
Evening Lectures – £6 (£4 concessions) or free to day ticket holders
Book tickets in person at the Information Desk, Online at http://boxoffice.bl.uk or on 01937 546546
