Center for Jewish StudiesINIRE Summer School and Conference Program
In the Name of God: A Voice for War, a Call for Peace
Full Schedule with Zoom Links (password protected)
SUNDAY, JULY 2
19:30
Informal reception for early arrivals
Location: Vista Restaurant, Washington Duke Inn
MONDAY, JULY 3
9:30-11:00
Summer Program Registration and Introduction*
Malachi H. Hacohen (Duke University and Leipzig University) and Peter Casarella (Duke Divinity School)
Introductions and Summer Program Agenda.
*Please note that the Summer Program is open to all conference participants.
Location: 0013 Westbrook Building
11:00-12:30
Introduction to Duke Libraries
Location: 0013 Westbrook Building
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Location: Westbrook Building
14:00-15:15
Conference Paper: How to Delivery Your Message
Summer School Faculty
Location: 0013 Westbrook Building
Coffee served in Westbrook Hallway
15:30-18:30
Abrahamic Texts Workshop – Reading Together
Imam Abdul Waheed (Duke), Zohar Maor (Bar Ilan University), and Peter Casarella (Duke)
Location: 0013 Westbrook Building
19:00-21:00
Religion and Peace - Small Group Discussion over Dinner
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
TUESDAY, JULY 4
10:00-13:00
Summer Program Lectures and Discussion: Peace and War in the History of Abrahamic Religions
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
"Holy War and Unholy Peace"
Yvonne Friedman, Bar Ian University, online
11:00-12:00
"Jewish Responses to War"
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University and Leipzig University
12:00-13:00
"Justice, Holiness, and Violence"
Matthew Rowley, Fairfield University and Quinnipiac University
13:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00
“My interest in Religion, War and Peace”: small group discussion in response to morning lectures
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
16:00-17:30
Conference Registration & Keynote
Finding God in a Time of Crisis
Imam Abdullah Antepli (Duke University)
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/96578926720
18:00: Bus from campus to Durham Bulls Athletic Park
18:35: Baseball game, with dinner, followed by fireworks
Bus Location: Chapel Quad
Baseball Game Location: Durham Bulls Athletic Park
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5
9:00-10:45
Session 1: Muslims and the Other
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Youssef Madrari, Dar Al-Hadith Al-Hassaniyya institution in Rabat, Morocco
The Contemporary Salafi Reproduction and Appropriation of Historical Islamic Theology and Heresiography
Rajil Aziz, Hassan II University in Casablanca
Coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Morocco between Yesterday and Today
Domagoj Krpan, University of Rijeka
Spoilers in religion-based reconciliation: A case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina (co-authored with Vedran Obućina, Universität Regensburg, not in attendance)
Commentator: Abdeslam Maghraoui, Duke University
11:00-12:00
Session 2: Religion and War: Advocacy and Resistance
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Yosef Liebesohn, Bar Ilan University
War and War Deities: Greece vs. Rome
Benjamin Schewel, Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT)
Constructive Resilience in the Baha’i Faith
Commentator: Hilda Nissimi, Bar Ilan University
12:15-13:00 INIRE Annual meeting (in-person and online)
Location: 0013 Westbrook Building
13:00 Lunch
Location: Westbrook Building
14:30-16:15
Session 3: The Holy Scripture on Active Duty
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Antonella Bellantuono, Université Catholique de Lille
Bible, War and Military Service
Sinduja Umandi Wickramasinghe Jayaratne, National Defense University of Malaysia (online)
Gateway to Violence: Analyzing the Link between the Concept of Jihadism and Salafi Jihadi Militancy
Hilda Nissimi, Bar Ilan University
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Scriptural Admonition or Political Argumentation?
Commentator: Matthew Rowley, Fairfield University and Quinnipiac University
Coffee served in Westbrook Hallway
16:30-18:15
Session 4: Theologians and War-Peace Ethics
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Ascher Biemann, University of Virginia
Reinventing the Idea of Humanity: Jewish Thinkers around 1945.
Yemima Hadad, Leipzig University
Friends and Foes: Martin Buber Reading Carl Schmitt
Zohar Maor, Bar Ilan University
Reorienting National Chosenness from War to Peace: Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy and the Great War Trauma
Commentator: Malachi Hacohen, Leipzig University and Duke University
19:00 Dinner
Location: Freeman Center for Jewish Life
THURSDAY, JULY 6
17th of Tammuz – Jewish fast
9:00-10:45
Session 5: Peace Undermined and Restored: Religious conflict and Reconciliation
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Hanna Abakunova, Uppsala University
Jewish–Roma Relations as an Example of Religious Interaction in Occupied Ukraine before and during the Holocaust
Huseyin Oylupinar, Uppsala University
The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Muslim Responses in Crimea and Russia during the Russian War against Ukraine
Abdellah Haddari, Afkaar Center for Studies and Research
Religion and Customs in Morocco: Ancient Ethics and Values of Peace Corrupted by Colonialism
Commentator: Rocio Cortes, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Anastasia Strakhova, Duke University and Harvard University
Coffee served in Westbrook Hallway
11:00-12:45
Session 6: Motivation: Religion and Pragmatism
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Emmanuel Chiwetalu Ossai, Manchester Metropolitan University (online)
“Fighting does not Feed us or Pay my Children's School Fees": Practical Interests and the Motivation of Peaceful Behavior in a "Deeply Religious" Nigeria.
Markus Thurau, Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr
"From Just War to Just Peace: Peace in Christian thought during and after the Cold War“
Mubarak Tukur, Makerere University, Kampala (online)
Shariah War and Peace: Women Interfaith Council in Northern Nigeria, 1992-2022.
Commentators: Sara Katz (Duke University) and Vera Kallenberg (Duke University and Bielefeld University)
13:00 Lunch
14:30-16:15
Session 7: Religion and Civil Strife
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Michael G. Bazemore Jr., independent scholar
“Something nefarious was happening”: Antisemitism, Reactionary Populism, and Extralegal Violence from Blois to Comet Ping Pong
Doron Avraham, Bar Ian University
The German Kulturkampf: Religious Conflict and the Challenge of Modernization
Motti Inbari, UNC Pembroke
Religious Zionism and the Temple Mount Dilemma
Commentator: Zohar Maor, Bar-Ilan University
16:30-18:15
Session 8: Holy Texts and Non-Violence
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Rocío Cortés Rodríguez, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
The Role of Scriptural Reasoning in Promoting a Non-Fundamentalist Understanding of Religious Scriptures
Matthew Rowley, Fairfield University and Quinnipiac University
Depolarizing Religion and Conflict in the Classroom (Practical and Theoretical proposals)
Sobia Bhat, South Asian University (SAU) (online)
Doing Religion in a Militarized Zone: Islamic Prayers or Salah as a Source of Ontological Security in Kashmir
Commentator: Peter Casarella (Duke Divinity School)
18:30-19:30
The Jewish Fast of 17th Tammuz and Churban (Catastrophe): Discussion
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
20:00/21:00 Dinner
Location: Vista Restaurant, Washington Duke Inn
FRIDAY, JULY 7
9:00-10:45
Session 9: Catastrophe, Faith, and Dialogue
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
Simon Massiga, Makerere University, Kampala
Teaching Peace Education Through Interfaith Dialogue
Raphael Thurm, Bar Ilan University
"Neo-Orthodoxy Responds to World War I"
Neil Bar, Bar Ilan University
This is thy God, o Hellenists of Israel
Commentators: Yaakov Ariel, UNC Chapel Hill, and Motti Inbari, UNC Pembroke
11:00-12:00
Group discussion: War, Peace and Religion: What we have learned (feedback session)
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building
12:00: Zohar Maor, Bar Ilan University: Summer Program Conclusion
Location: 0012 Westbrook Building