Friday, 2 February 2007

9:00            

Introduction and welcome

Bill Finlayson, CBRL

Rami Daher, Turath

Hasan Abu Nemah, RIIFS

9:45            

Steven Snape: East/West interconnections during the Bronze Age

10:30           

Tamar Hodos: A Phoenician past and present

11:15           

Break

11:30           

Phiroze Vasunia: Greece, between East and West

12:15 

Mark Whittow: Pirenne, Muhammad and Bohemond: before Orientalism

13:00           

Lunch

14:00 

Andrew Peacock: Cultural identity and assimilation in a Christian-Muslim frontier society: the case of mediaeval Islam's Caucasian marchlands

14:45           

Erica Hunter: Inter-faith dialogues in the Abbassid period

15:30           

break

15:45           

John Bintliff: The Ottomans in Greece - archaeological perspectives

16:30           

Close

18:30           

Keynote Lecture: Mike Robinson: Tourism and Inter-cultural Dialogue: Translation, Transformation and Spaces of Belonging

19:30           

Reception at CBRL

Saturday, 3 February 2007

9:30   

Ben Fortna: The notion of ‘divide’ between East and West in the late Ottoman context

10:15           

Martina Rieker: Geographic Inscriptions

11:00           

Break

11:30           

HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal: Shifting Boundaries

13:00           

Lunch

14:00           

Rami Daher and Bill Finlayson: Summary

14:30           

Round table

17:15           

Close

Dinner