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Conference Announcement Theme: Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies Subtitle: History, Ideas and Institutions Type: 2nd International Conference Institution: Reset Dialogues On Civilizations King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences Location: Casablanca (Morocco) Date: 11.–13.7.2019 __________________________________________________ The second edition of Casablanca Seminars goes on with its aim of understanding of and among traditions to examine the fountains of tolerance in especially Islamic contexts from theological, philosophical, historical, socio-anthropological and institutionally juristic-legal perspectives. Comparisons with non-Islamic traditions, with which Muslim majority or minority societies interact, are also studied. The program is here: https://www.resetdoc.org/event/program-casablanca/ Program Thursday, July 11 09:30 – 10.00 am Registration and welcome coffee 10:00 – 10.30 am Welcome session Mohamed Sghir Janjar, Vice Director (King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, Casablanca) Giancarlo Bosetti, Chairman (Reset Dialogues on Civilizations) Jonathan Laurence, Vice President (Reset Dialogues US) 10.30-11.00 am Conference Introduction Mohammed Hashas (FSCIRE Foundation for Religious Studies, and Reset DOC) Fouad Ben Ahmed (Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania Institute for Higher Islamic Studies EDHH, Rabat) Session I: Tolerance in Mediterranean religious traditions 11:00-12:00 am Panel Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason Univ): Islamic revelation and human diversity Alberto Melloni (UNESCO Chair in Religious Pluralism and Peace, Bologna Univ): Religious climate change and human dignity 12.00-12:15 am Coffee Break 12:15-01:15 pm Panel Sari Nusseibeh (Al-Quds Univ): Open and closed systems of knowledge Massimo Campanini (Ambrosian Academy Milan): Religious tolerance and apologetics in the 5th Century H/11th C. AD 01:15-02:15 pm Lunch Break Session II: Tolerance and intolerance in thought and practice 02:15-03:45 pm Panel Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana Univ): Tolerance in Islamic thought and praxis Aomar Boum (California Univ, UCLA): The Minority question: Historicizing Morocco’s discourse of tolerance Aziz Mechouat (Hassan II Univ, Casablanca): Moroccan youth attitudes toward groups perceived as religiously different 03:45-04:00 pm Coffee Break 04:00 – 05:00 pm Roundtable Inter-and-intrareligious tolerance and the rising populism – Reflections on Papal Document “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” Abu Dhabi, 2019 Mohamed Sghir Janjar (King Abdulaziz Foundation), Alberto Melloni (Modena-Reggio Emilia Univ, FSCIRE), Khalid Hajji (Mohamed I Univ), Sari Nusseibeh (Al-Quds Univ), Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason Univ) Friday, July 12 Session III: Religion, philosophy, and pluralism 10:00-11:00 am Panel Said El Bousklaoui (Zayed Univ & Mohammed I Univ): On the limits of mutual recognition and tolerance between philosophers and theologians (in Arabic) Karim Barghouti (Birzeit Univ): The Other in Muslim Sufi philosophy (in Arabic) 11:00-11:15 am Coffee Break 11:15 am-12:15 pm Panel Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard and Birmingham Univs): The rise of the nation-state and its impact on religious tolerance in Turkey, Egypt and Syria Khalid Hajji (Mohammed I Univ): The Mediterranean Sea: A Space of both Detection and Projection 12:30-2.10 pm Lunch Break (and Friday Prayers) Saturday, July 13 Session IV: Politics and identity in the Mediterranean 10:00-11:00 am Panel Abdelhai Azarkan (Mohammed V Univ): The role of philosophy’s in making tolerance a value Abderrazak Belagrouz (Univ of Setif 2): From tolerance to recognition in Mediterranean societies 11:00-12:00 am Panel Huseyin Yilmaz (George Mason Univ): Negotiating diversity in Ottoman society Ahmet Alibašić (Sarajevo Univ): The platform for dialogue of the Islamic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina 12:00-12:15 pm Coffee Break 12:15 – 01:15 pm Roundtable 2: Book presentation, The Idea of European Islam (Routledge, 2019) by Mohammed Hashas Discussants: Massimo Campanini, Ahmet Alibasic, Jocelyne Cesari, Jonathan Laurence 1:15 – 1.30 pm Closing remarks 1.30 – 2.30 pm Lunch Break Working Languages English and Arabic. Simultaneous translation from English to Arabic and vice-versa will be provided. Venue King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences Rue du Corail, Ain Diab, Casablanca, Morocco Tel.: 05 22 39 10 27/30 Fax: 05 22 39 10 31 Email: secretar...@fondation.org.ma Web: http://www.fondation.org.ma __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
