CIP is delighted to invite you to theinternational symposium 'The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes ' on 6 May 2021, online from 10:30 to 18:30 BST.
During the symposium, we will inaugurate 'Shared Sacred Landscapes', an exhibition of photography. Further information is available at https://www.sharedsacred.com. Click here to register.
Symposium programme
10:30-10:50 – Safet HadžiMuhamedović (University of Cambridge)
Welcome & Inauguration of the Shared Sacred Landscapes Exhibition
Panel 1 | Sharing & Separation
11:00 – 11:20 – Yogesh Snehi (Ambedkar University)
Embedded Sacred Contours of Punjabi Sufi Shrines
Q&A
11:30-11:50 – Glenn Bowman (University of Kent)
Q&A
12:00-12:20 – Tom Selwyn (SOAS University of London)
Q&A
12:30-12:55 – Break (& a visit to the exhibition)
Panel 2 | Modes of Sharing in Discourse & Practice
13:00-13:20 – Ioan Cozma (Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome), Maria Chiara Giorda (Roma Tre University) and Silvia Omenetto (University of Rome ‘Sapienza’)
Sharing Religious Places: Theory, Categories, Historical (and Present-day) Case Studies
Q&A
13:30-13:50 – Bojan Baskar (University of Ljubljana)
Sharing the Poet, Sharing the Saint?
Q&A
14:00-14:20 – Dionigi Albera (IDEMEC, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University)
Modes of Sharing and Forms of Spatiality at St George Monastery in Büyükada (Istanbul)
Q&A
14:30-14:55 – Break
Panel 3 | Contours & Ripples of Sharing
15:00 – Emrah Gökdemir (painter, filmmaker, graphic designer & performance artist)
What Khidr Says to Moses: Turn Around Me(short film, 8’33’’, 2015)
15:20-15:40 – Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge)
Khidr Among Others: Socialism, Secularism and the Supernatural in Arab Alawi Spheres in Turkey
Q&A
15:50-16:10 – Ethel Sara Wolper (University of New Hampshire)
Shared Saints and Divided Landscapes: Shared Saints and the Memory of Mosul
Q&A
16:20-16:35 – Break
Panel 4 | Encounters & Metamorphoses
16:40-17:00 – Yuri Stoyanov (SOAS University of London)
Q&A
17:10-17:30 – Manoël Pénicaud (IDEMEC, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University)
Turbalı Sultan Baba in Thessaly (Greece): A Former Christian Monastery Converted to a Bektashi Tekke
Q&A
17:40-18:00 – Jens Kreinath (Wichita State University)
18:10-18:20 – Safet HadžiMuhamedović (University of Cambridge)
Closing remarks
The Shared Sacred Landscapes project is supported by the Public Engagement Starter Fund, University of Cambridge and based in the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity. For more information, get in touch with Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović.