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

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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)

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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

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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
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14:30-14:55 – Break ​

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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 

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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.