Category: Events
IPRA Geneses conference, Nantes, May 2017
Our conference brought together specialists in Jewish, Christian and Muslim studies, from across Europe, North American and the Middle East. Together we explored the construction (and deconstruction) of narratives of the creation of religious...
BURSARIES IN JEWISH STUDIES (CSIC-UCM)
The project “Jewish Cultures Across Mediterranean Europe” (J-Med), CSIC-UCM, invites applications for up to three-month study and/or research bursaries in the field of Jewish studies at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the...
IPRA – IEA conference: Nadia Maria El Cheikh
Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects....
IPRA’s second international conference: Geneses : comparative study of the historiographies of the rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam
A certain triumphalist fatalism has long dominated the historiography of the rise of Christianity and that of the expansion of Islam. Eusebius and Jerome give the tone: they celebrate a Christian cult destined to...
Jews and Christians between the Mediterranian and the Indian Ocean: Co-existence and Conflict
A research-intensive course at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 10-21, 2017 The course will introduce its students to the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the...
