Past Events

The Shaping of Many Islams: Struggle

over Authority between God, Texts, & People

Symposium at Smith College

April 18 – 19, 2008

Friday, April 18, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Seelye Hall 201 (Panel Open to the Public)

Panel Chair: Prof. Amina Steinfels

Religion, Mount Holyoke College

Speakers:

Prof. Walid Saleh

Near & Middle Eastern Civs., University of Toronto

"The Qur'an: Its Function andPlace in Islam"

Prof. Asma Sayeed

Religious Studies, Lafayette College

"Women and the Islamic Religious Tradition"

Reception to follow in Seelye Hall 207

Saturday, April 19

Kahn Institute Seminar Room (Attendance by Invitation Only)

Symposium Convened by

Prof. Suleiman A. Mourad

Religion, Smith College

Sponsored by the Religion Department Kent Fund, the Middle East Studies Program,

the Kahn Institute SAMS Fund, the Smith College Endowed Lectures Committee, and the Connections Fund.

Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program, the Smith College Endowed Lecture Committee,

the Connections Fund, the Kahn Institute SAMS Fund and Religion Department

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'Lost'

Between Memory

 and History:

Writing the Holocaust

 For the Next Generation

Award-winning Author

Daniel Mendelsohn

Thursday, November 29, 2007

7:30 p.m.

 Campus Center Carroll Room

Sponsored by Jewish Studies, German Studies, History, Religion and Comparative Literature

at Smith College; the Smith College Lecture Committee; the Five College Lecture Fund;

the Department of Spanish at Amherst College;

the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at UMass, Amherst;

the Jewish Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College;

the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Hampshire College; Smith/Amherst Hillel;

the Five College Slavic Seminar; the Jewish Arts and Culture Initiative

of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation; the National Yiddish Book Center;

the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center.

This lecture is part of the 2007-2008 Lecture Series in Jewish Studies:

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Love of God, Love of Neighbor:

 Martha and Mary

 in the Middle Ages

 Christ in the House of Mary and Martha  c. 1654-1656 by Jan Vermeer

National Gallery of Scotland

Amy Hollywood

Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor

 of Christian Studies at Harvard University

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Seelye Hall – Room 201

4:15 p.m.

Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Religion,

 Program for the Study of Women and Gender and

 the Smith College Lecture Committee

Smith College

Northampton, Massachusetts

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