Colloque : « Temple – Synagogue – Church – Mosque: Connections, Interactions, and the Politics of Conversion » (New-York, 25-26 avril 2019)

Colloque : « Temple – Synagogue – Church – Mosque: Connections, Interactions, and the Politics of Conversion » (New-York, 25-26 avril 2019)

Programme :

Thursday, April 25, 2:30–7:00. Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

2:30–3:00

Sabine Frommel & Holger A. Klein

Introductions

 

3:00–3:30

Philippe Bernard, EPHE, PSL

A Latin Mass Formulary for the Dedication of a Church ‘in a place where there was once a synagoga’ in Late Antique Rome

Discussion

 

3:45–4:15

Ioanna Rapti, EPHE, PSL

The Holy Cave from Martyrium to Memorial: Inter-visuality and Space in the Basilica of Bethlehem

Discussion

 

4:15–4:45

Coffee Break (Stronach Lounge)

 

5:00–5:30

Luis Rueda Galan, Universidad de Jaén / EPHE, PSL

The Conversion of Andalusian Mosques during the Late Middle Ages: The Formation of a Cross-Cultural Model of Church

Discussion

 

6:00

Evening Lecture

Ünver Rüstem, Johns Hopkins University

Victory without Conquest: Ottoman Imperial Mosques and Their Symbolism in the “Age of Decline”

 

Reception (Stronach Lounge)

 

Friday, April 26, 9:30–5:00. Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

9:30–10:00

Pinar Aykac Leidholm, Middle East Technical University

Contesting the Past: Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia as an Ideological Battleground in Turkey

Discussion

 

10:15–10:45

Holger A. Klein, Columbia University

Contesting the Future: Hagia Sophia in Vize and the Politics of Conversion

Discussion

 

11:00

Coffee Break (Stronach Lounge)

 

11:30–12:00

Savannah Esquivel, University of Chicago

Living with the Dead in a Colonial Mexican Monastery

Discussion

 

12:15–12:45

Arathi Menon, Columbia University

Trading Spaces: The Thazhathangady Juma Masjid in Kottayam, Kerala

Discussion

 

1:00–3:00

Lunch Break

 

3:00–3:30

Sabine Frommel, EPHE, PSL

The Early Modern Unified Space Ideal: Function and Aesthetics

Discussion

 

3:45–4:15

Isabelle Saint Martin, EPHE, PSL

Interfaith Places of Worship and Spiritual Spaces in Hospitals in France

Discussion

 

4:30–5:00

Final Remarks

 

5:00

Reception (Stronach Lounge)