Wednesday 12 February
Opening session: The Contribution of Christianity to Rabbinic Judaism
Chair: Vivian Liska (IJS, University of Antwerp)
20.00-20.10 Welcome words by Jacques Haers (UCSIA), Vivian Liska (IJS) and
Itzhak Benyamini (HU & BAAD)
20.10-21.00 Keynote lecture: Israel Yuval (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Contribution of Christianity to Rabbinic Judaism
21.00-21.30 Response by Bernd Witte (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
21.30-22.00 Discussion followed by a reception
Thursday 13 February
Workshop
Session I: Critical Theology and the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Chair: Dennis Baert (IJS)
09.00-09.30 Itzhak Benyamini (University of Haifa & Bezalel Academy of Arts and
Design)
Beyond the Hyphenated Jew: The “Judeo-Christian” in the Wake of
Jean-François Lyotard
09.30-10.00 Michael F. Mach (Tel-Aviv University)
Modern Jewish/Christian Theologies
10.00-10.30 Jacques Haers (KU Leuven and UCSIA)
Theology : Critical when Attempting to Discern Emerging Creativity
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.15 Coffee break
Session II: Law and Love in the Jewish and Christian Tradition
Chair: David Dessin (IJS)
11.15-11.45 Emmanuel Nathan (KU Leuven)
Two Pauls, Three Opinions: The Jewish Paul between Law and Love
11.45-12.15 Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University)
Spinoza and Paul: Christians and Pharisees
12.15-12.45 Vivian Liska (IJS, University of Antwerp)
Readings of Kafka and the Law from Walter Benjamin to Giorgio
Agamben
12.45-13.15 Discussion
13.15-14.30 Lunch (speakers only)
Session III: The Judeo-Christian Tradition and Other Religious Traditions
Chair: Jacques Haers (KU Leuven and UCSIA)
14.30-15.00 Warren Zeev Harvey (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Judeo-Christian Tradition’s Five Others
15.00-15.30 Elizabeth Harris (Liverpool Hope University)
Idolatry or a Path of Compassion? Jewish and Christian Attitudes to
Buddhism
15.30-16.00 Anya Topolski (KU Leuven)
A Genealogy of the 'Judeo-Christian' Signifier:
A Tale of Europe’s Identity Crisis
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
Closing session: Jewish and Christian Female Mystics
Chair: Vivian Liska (IJS, University of Antwerp)
17.00-17.10 Welcome words by Jacques Haers (UCSIA) and Vivian Liska (IJS)
17.10-18.00 Ada Rapoport-Albert (University College London)
“They laud his Mother Mary, entreat her and pray to her, for she is the
counterpart of the Holy Shekhinah”: A Sabbatean View of Divine
Femininity against the Background of Marian Piety
18.00-18.30 Response by Veerle Fraeters (Ruusbroecgenootschap, University of
Antwerp)
18.30-19.00 Discussion
19.00 Dinner (speakers only)