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The Khiḍr Dialogues
Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes

International Symposium | St George's Day/Hıdırellez | 6 May 2021 ​​​| Online

Programme
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(click on contributors' names to see paper summaries & bios)

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)
The al-Khidr, Prophet Elias and St. George Conjunction:
The Knitting of Communities and the Agents of Their Unravelling

Q&A

12:00-12:20 – Tom Selwyn (SOAS University of London)
Two Women of Bethlehem: Biblical Lessons from Rachel
and Ruth about Separate and Shared Sacred Spaces
 

Q&A

12:30-12:55 – Break (& a visit to the exhibition)


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 ​
About the symposium
Symposium registration

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
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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 4 | Encounters & Metamorphoses
 
16:40-17:00 – Yuri Stoyanov (SOAS University of London)
The Shared Religious Landscape of the North East Balkan Bektāshī Tekke of Ak Yazılı Baba and its Modern Syncretistic Transmutations
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)
Is al-Khiḍr comparable to the Green Man? Tracing Moments of Intercultural Encounters across the Mediterranean

18:10-18:20 – Safet HadžiMuhamedović (University of Cambridge)
Closing remarks 
The Khidr Dialogues Symposium Programme.pdf
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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. 
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  • Home
  • About
  • Exhibition
    • Dionigi Albera
    • Maria Angel
    • Philippe Antoine Martinez
    • Glenn Bowman >
      • Al-Khadr (series)
      • Sveti Nikola (series)
    • Helen Cornish
    • Susannah Crockford
    • Lene Faust
    • Jackie Feldman
    • Maria Chiara Giorda, Luca Bossi, Daniele Campobenedetto & Equoatelier
    • Emrah Gökdemir
    • Safet HadžiMuhamedović
    • Vanja Hamzić
    • Guy Hayward
    • Jens Kreinath
    • Federica Manfredi
    • Ashim Kumar Manna
    • Reza Masoudi
    • Jason Minton Brown
    • Manoël Pénicaud
    • Marlene Schäfers
    • Jesko Schmoller
    • Tom Selwyn
    • Olga Sicilia
    • Konrad Siekierski
    • Yogesh Snehi
    • Yuri Stoyanov
    • Jill J. Tan
    • Samuel Tettner
  • Symposium
    • About the symposium
    • Yogesh Snehi
    • Glenn Bowman
    • Tom Selwyn
    • Ioan Cozma, Maria Chiara Giorda and Silvia Omenetto
    • Bojan Baskar
    • Dionigi Albera
    • Emrah Gökdemir
    • Yael Navaro
    • Ethel Sara Wolper
    • Yuri Stoyanov
    • Manoël Pénicaud
    • Jens Kreinath
  • Panel
  • Contact
  • Related Projects
    • The Xenia Series
    • CIP Summer School in Inter-Faith Relations
    • Cambridge in Your Classroom
    • Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage Summer School
    • Bosnian Landscapes