Please register with Monet Uva by October 12, 2007. The sessions are all open to the public, but the meals are restricted to the speakers, moderators and chairs.

This conference is chaired by Moshe Ma’oz, professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and former director of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, currently a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center. The conference steering committee is comprised of Ali Banuazizi, professor of political science and codirector, Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Boston College; Steven B. Bloomfield, Executive Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard Divinity School; and Herbert C. Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, emeritus, Harvard University. The conference will discuss theological and historical relations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims: commonalities and divergence, as well as cooperation and strife, during both medieval and modern eras. It will also highlight the issues of education, interfaith activities, and Jerusalem as foci of dispute and “trialogue.”

Conference Location:
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
136 Irving Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.amacad.org/