Conference Schedule

Monday, March 3, 2008

8:45am - 9:15am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Robert A. Paul (Dean, Emory College)
Bruce M. Knauft (ICIS Executive Director)
Vincent J. Cornell (MESAS)

Morning Session: Islam

9:15am - 10:30am

Bruce B. Lawrence (Duke University) -- Is Suicide Bombing an Unqualified Evil?

David S. Powers (Cornell University) -- Jewish and Christian Roots of Islamic Martyrdom Discourses

Vincent J. Cornell (Emory University) -- God's Roadmap to the Emerald City: Islamic Reconstructionism and the Cosmic Shari'a

10:30am - 10:45am Coffee break

10:45am - 12:15pm

Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales-Lampeter) -- Jihadi Networks of Cyber-Authority

George Michael (University of Virginia College at Wise) -- Common Discourses of Islamic and Euro-American Extremism

Gordon D. Newby (Emory University) Discussant

General discussion

Afternoon Session: Judaism

2:00pm - 3:30pm

David Novak (University of Toronto) -- How the Talmud Tamed the Bible

Shlomo Fischer (Tel Aviv University) -- The General Will, Charisma, Prophecy and the Politics of the Avant-Garde: Yehuda Etzion and the Theology of the Jewish Settler's Underground

Don Seeman (Emory University) -- Jewish Mysticism and the Phenomenology of Violence

3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee break

3:45pm - 5:00pm

Warren Rosenberg (Wabash College) -- Revenge of the Diaspora: The Land of Israel and the Problem of Jewish Male Violence

David R. Blumenthal (Emory University) Discussant

General discussion

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Morning Session: Christianity

9:30am - 10:45am

R. Scott Appleby (Notre Dame University) -- Infinite Justice in the Righteous Empire: Biblical and Traditional Roots

Kurt Anders Richardson (McMaster University) -- Gracious God/Wrathful God: Theological Models of Violence and Its Overcoming

10:45am - 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am - 12:15pm

Patrick Provost-Smith (Harvard University) -- Avenging an Injured God: Just War Theory in a Colonial Context

Steven Tipton (Emory University) Discussant

General discussion

Afternoon Session: Religious Extremism and Ideologies of Modernity

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University) -- The Psychological Structure of Identity in Identity Politics

Bruce Knauft (Emory University) -- Modernity, Religion, and Extremism in the Twenty-First Century

3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee break

3:30pm -5:00pm

Laurie Patton (Emory University) -- Postcolonial Ideologies of Sanskrit and Religious Extremism among Women: Some Portraits

Bradley S. Clough (American University in Cairo) -- Ideologies and Practices of Buddhist Extremism

Gyanendra Pandey (Emory University) Discussant

Closing discussion

Organized by/Sponsored by: Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)

Time: All Day

Building: Michael C. Carlos Museum Room: 3rd floor reception hall

Co-Sponsors: Emory University's Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS); Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Initiative; The Michael C. Carlos Museum; Candler School of Theology; Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies; Department of Religion, South Asian Studies Program; the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, and the Hightower Fund.