All events located at UNC-Chapel Hill, FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003
**tentative schedule, times subject to slight changes
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015
9:30-10:00am – Registration/Breakfast
10:00-10:15am – Opening remarks, Juliane Hammer, UNC, Department of Religious Studies
10:15-11:45am – Panel 1: “Art and Iconography”
Sarover Zaidi, “Shattered Objects: artifact and icon in Islam”
Andrew Gayed, “Queering Middle Eastern Contemporary art and its Diaspora”
Faculty Respondent – Dr. David Morgan, Duke University, Department of Religious Studies
11:45am-1:15pm – Lunch
1:15-2:45pm – Panel 2: Poetry, Poetics, Aesthetics
Pamela Klasova, Voices from the Time of “in-between”: A Clash of Two Worlds in the Poetry and Akbār of three Mukhadram Poets”
Matthew Lynch, “Judgements of Taste in Translating the Persianate”
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Mona Hassan, Duke University, Department of Religious Studies
2:45pm-3:15pm – Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 – Panel 3: “Intellectual Un/Certainty”
Mohamad M. Jarada, “Muslims and America: Redemption against Images of a Past”
Mohammad Syifa A. Widigdo, “Jadal: A Search for Religious-Intellectual Certainty”
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Juliane Hammer, UNC, Department of Religious Studies
4:45pm-5:00pm – Coffee Break
5:00pm-6:00pm – Keynote presentation: “Islamicate Aesthetics / Islamicate Cosmopolitanism,” Dr. Bruce Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus, Duke University; Adjunct Professor, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Istanbul
6:00-8:00pm – Dinner at GEC
SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2015
9:30-10:00am – Breakfast
10:00-11:30am – Panel 4: “Performing Beauty”
Verena Meyer, “Al-Ghazali on Stage: Towards A Theological Interpretation of Javanese Wayang Theatre”
Elizabeth Dospel Williams, “Ideal Beauty: Practices and Theories of Adornment in the Early Islamic Period”
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Anna Bigelow, Philosophy & Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
11:30am-12:30pm – Lunch
12:30pm-1:30pm – Closing Remarks