Professor of Modern History, University of Chicago.
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA: THE IDEA
OF JERUSALEM
OPENING REMARKS: Allison Stanger, director, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and professor of political science, Middlebury College; Tamar Mayer, professor of geography, Middlebury College; and Suleiman A. Mourad, assistant professor of religion, Middlebury College. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “One City, One God, Three Faiths” by Francis E. Peters, professor of history, religion, and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, New York University. PANEL 1: THE RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM OF JERUSALEM Papers: “The Temple Mount in Jewish Tradition” by Yaron Z. Eliav, Jean and Samuel Frankel Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature, University of Michigan. “Jerusalem in Jewish History, Tradition and Memory” by Lee I. Levine, professor of Jewish history and the Rev. Moses Bernard Lauterman Family Professor of Classical Archeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Jerusalem in Early Christianity” by O. Larry Yarbrough, Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Religion, Middlebury College. “The Transformation of the Holiness of Jerusalem in Islamic Scholarship” by Suleiman A. Mourad, assistant professor of religion, Middlebury College. Chair: K. Parker Diggory, Class of 2004, Middlebury College. Moderator: Robert Schine, Curt C. and Else Silberman Professor in Jewish Studies, Middlebury College. PANEL 2: THE STRUGGLE OVER JERUSALEM Papers: “Jerusalem in the Visual Propaganda of Contemporary Iran” by Christiane J. Gruber, doctoral candidate in art history, University of Pennsylvania. “The Jerusalem Syndrome” by Alexander van der Haven, doctoral candidate in the history of religions, University of Chicago Divinity School. “Jerusalem in and out of Focus: The City as a Mirror of Changes in Jewish Nationalism” by Tamar Mayer, professor of geography, Middlebury College. “Palestinian Jerusalem in the Early Twentieth Century” by Issam Nassar, professor of history, Bradley University. “The Palestinian Leadership of Jerusalem, 1948-2004” by Elie Rekhess, senior research fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. “The Walls of Jerusalem: Past, Present, Future” by Bernard Wasserstein, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer
Chair: Maija Cheung, Class of 2005, Middlebury College. Moderator: Febe Armanios, assistant professor of Middle East history, Middlebury College. PANEL 3: THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE Papers: “Can There Be Peace Without Negotiating
“Has any city in the world captured the imagination of so many generations in both the East and the West as Jerusalem?”
–Tamar Mayer
Jerusalem?” by Sari Nusseibeh, president, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem. “Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: Facing the Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the alAqsa Intifada” by Ian S. Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. Chair: Suleiman A. Mourad, assistant professor of religion, Middlebury College Moderator: Jeffrey Cason, associate professor of political science, and director of international studies and Middle East studies, Middlebury College. PANEL 4: JERUSALEM IN THE ARTS Papers: “Nineteenth-Century Photography of Jerusalem” by Emmie Donadio, associate director and chief curator, Middlebury College Museum of Art. “The Map Has a Message: Reality, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem” by Rehav Rubin, professor of geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Fayruz, Jerusalem, and the Leba-stinian Song” by Christopher Stone, assistant professor of Arabic and international studies, Middlebury College. Chair: Amer Barghouth, Class of 2005, Middlebury College. Moderator: Pieter Broucke, associate professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College.
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ROHATYN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
ANNUAL REPORT 2004-2005