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SUMMARY:CIRS Hosts Conference on "Innovation in Islam"
DESCRIPTION:On April 5–6\, 2008\, the Center for International and Regional Studies hosted the “Innovation in Islam” Conference. \n\nInnovation in Islam explored topics such as the idea and reality of innovation in Islam; development of knowledge in early Islam; development and change in the Islamic legal system; the arts and artistic innovation in Islam; science and scientific innovation in Islam; jurisprudential innovation in Islam; and politics and political innovation in Islam. \n\nIn addition to posting the proceedings of the conference on its website\, CIRS plans on compiling\, editing\, and publishing some of the key papers of the conference in the form of an edited volume titled Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions (University of California Press\, 2011).  \n\nKeynote Speaker:\n\nThe keynote address for the conference was delivered by the acclaimed poet Adonis. A pioneer in modern Arabic poetry\, Ali Ahmad Said Esber has written more than twenty books in Arabic.  \n\nParticipants:\n\nThe conference brought together some of the most prominent scholars on Islamic thought\, culture and history. They included Amira Sonbol\, Hassan Hanafi\, John Voll\, Mehran Kamrava\, Mohammed Arkoun\, Nasr Hamid Abu-Zayd\, Nelly Hanna\, Omaima Abou Bakr\, Patrick Laude\, Peter Gran\, Sherman Jackson\, Sumaiya A. Hamdani\, Tariq Ramadan\, Walter Denny\, Zakaryya Abdel-Hady\, and Ziba Mir-Hosseini.  \n\nSchedule:\n\nPanel I – Innovation In Islam: Concept and Reality  \n\nChair: James Reardon-Anderson \n\nDevelopment of Knowledge in Early Islam – Nasr Hamid Abu-ZaydHistory from Below; Dictionary from Below – Nelly Hanna	 \n\nPanel II – Islamic Institutions: Traditions and Contributions \n\nChair: Patrick Meadows \n\nThe Fatimid Legacy: Policy and Precedent for Minority-Majority Coexistence in Islam – Sumaiya A. HamdaniThe Changing Family in Islam – Amira SonbolThe Mosque Yesterday and Today – Zakaryya Abdel-Hady	​	 \n\nPanel III – Islam and the Intellectual Process \n\nChair: Ibrahim Oweiss \n\nNew Directions in Islamic Thought – Hassan HanafiIslam and the Intellectual Process: Deconstructing Episteme(s) – Mohammed ArkounKnowledge and Hermeneutics in Islam Today – Tariq Ramadan	 \n\nPanel IV – Literary and Artistic Innovation \n\nChair: Patricia O’Connor \n\nInnovation and Tradition in Islamic Art – Walter DennySufi Poetry:  Innovation and Tradition – Patrick LaudeHistory and Biography – Jawid Mojaddedi	​	 \n\nPanel V – Theology and Politics of Fiqh \n\nChair: Edmund Ghareeb \n\nShi’a Fiqh at the Gates of  Historic Change – Mehran KamravaFiqh and Moral Disagreement in : Challenging the Justice of the Criminal Justice System – Ziba Mir-Hosseini Interpreting Women’s Biographies in Medieval Islamic Writings – Omaima Abou-Bakr	​	 \n\nPanel VI – Islam and Modernity  \n\nChair: Joshua Mitchell \n\nLiberal/Progressive\, Modern and Modernized Islam: Muslims and the American State – Sherman JacksonModern Movements in Islam – John VollThe Reception of Islamic Roots of Capitalism  – Peter Gran	 
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/cirs-hosts-conference-innovation-islam/
CATEGORIES:Dialogue Series,Panels,Race & Society,Regional Studies
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SUMMARY:Documentary Film - Promises
DESCRIPTION:As part of its ongoing outreach efforts\, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) hosted B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro\, creators of the multiple award-winning documentary film Promises\, and invited them to take part in public screenings of the film. Promises is a documentary film that follows the stories of seven children from opposite sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The film was a nominee in the category of “Best Feature Documentary” at the 74th Annual Academy Awards.Goldberg and Shapiro were invited to come to the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar campus\, where they were welcomed by CIRS staff and where they conducted an informal workshop with SFS-Qatar students and faculty.On April 14th\, 2008\, CIRS organized two different screenings of Promises in one day in order to accommodate public demand and interest in the documentary. The first screening at the auditorium in the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q) was the matinee and aimed at local Qatari and international high-school students\, who attended the screening accompanied by their chaperones. The matinee was attended by 150 students from the American School of Doha and from Amna Bint Wahab School for Girls. The evening event\, also held at the CNA-Q auditorium\, was dedicated to the members of the general public and began with a reception for the attendees before the screening of the film. Both Goldberg and Shapiro were in attendance and took the stage after the screening of the film\, in order to answer audience questions. 
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/documentary-film-promises/
CATEGORIES:Dialogue Series,Distingushed Lectures,Regional Studies
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SUMMARY:Victoria Pedrick on Myths of Desecration in Nature
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Pedrick\, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Classics at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Qatar)\, wrapped up CIRS events for the academic year 2007-2008\, with a lecture entitled “A Hunger for Trees: Myths of Desecration in Nature.” The lecture was addressed to an intimate audience of 40 people made up of students\, Qatar Foundation faculty and personnel\, locally-based ambassadors\, and interested members of the general public. The talk was the sixth in the Monthly Dialogue Series\, an academic and outreach effort sponsored by CIRS where faculty discuss their latest work and research interests. \n \n \nPedrick began her talk by recounting a variety of anecdotes about how the tree figures in ancient mythology and how\, through these stories\, it can be read as a symbol of a wider understanding of nature and human attitudes regarding their natural environment. As such\, Pedrick’s lecture came with a warning regarding current ecological disasters. She cautioned that environmental degradation largely stems from how humans determine their role in the world as the center around which all other elements oscillate. \n \n \nPedrick explained that ancient Greek and Roman myths\, although fictional\, “offer us a window onto the ancient sensibilities and imagination of nature.” Beneath their fantastical elements\, these ancient myths reveal the truth of how ancient peoples reacted towards their natural environments and how they affirmed their debt to it. She explained that by comparing these ancient stories to modern ones\, we can clearly see our relative deterioration in values regarding the natural environment and how we have downgraded nature to little more than a resource that is in servitude of human endeavor and subject to the will and mercy of our voracious needs. Today’s insatiable human appetite and “hunger for trees” overrides any of nature’s delicate requirements as natural resources are exploited with impunity and humans rarely\, if ever\, give back in the form of sustainability and reciprocity. Today’s ecological destruction is paralleled by the myth of Erysichthon and the curse of the insatiable hunger cast on him by the goddess Demeter in return for his brazen cutting down of a sacred tree. \n \n \nRoman and Greek myths offer glimpses into human relationships with nature and with trees in particular. Pedrick explained that “yet despite – or perhaps because of – its ubiquity in ancient life\, the tree holds an enigmatic place in ancient thought.” Trees are the epitome of what we understand nature to be; a complex cycle that is at once annual and fleeting and yet lasting far longer than the average human life. Trees’ growth cycles from seed\, to sapling\, to splendid creations are in tune with seasonal cycles and if left to grow naturally in good conditions\, can grow virtually eternally. Trees’ life cycles of leaf-growth\, full foliage and leaf-fall are in harmony with the cycles of the seasons as these natural elements work in conjunction and in support of each other in a reciprocal manner. \n \n \nIn ancient Roman and Greek mythologies\, trees were valued and revered because they were crucial to the survival of ancient civilizations\, and also because they were the source of all kinds of benefits and comforts. Trees provided wood for a great many things but most significantly\, they were needed as vital elements to sustain the lives and lifestyles of the ancient heroes. A variety of ancient myths tell of the great heroes who depended on wood to build their chariots and mighty ships. These were the vessels that carried them on the glorious journeys that secured the retelling of their stories and hence their immortality and their being eternally etched in lore. Trees also provided the wood with which to take these heroes on journeys of another kind: they were used to build the funeral pyres that carried them across into the afterlife. As such\, the humble tree was seen as noble\, and its simple offering of its own body as a mournful loss and a sacrifice respected by all who cut down trees. Many of the myths record that often\, paradoxical prayers of thanks and prayers for forgiveness were said just before a tree was cut down in acknowledgment of the complexity of the relationship between humans and nature. Trees were simultaneously needed as a resource and yet at times needed to be cleared to make way for grazing and farming areas and all the practices that rendered humans civilized. Today\, however\, a tree’s use is measured by its exchange-value and has become an object of epistemological violence as it is forced to become a partisan to modern humans’ perception of nature as little more than a profitable resource. \n \n \nThe complexity underlying ancient stories is academic proof that humans and nature were in a delicate relationship of reciprocity. It is thus through these ancient Greek and Roman myths that modern humans can take valuable lessons and see that our progress has\, in many cases\, led to poverty. Our development has been dwarfed by ancient humans’ advancement in the stewardship of nature and of its bounty.  \n \n \nSummary prepared by Suzi Mirgani\, CIRS staff member.
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/victoria-pedrick-myths-desecration-nature/
CATEGORIES:Dialogue Series,Environmental Studies,Regional Studies
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