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April 3 - 4,
2016Holsti-AndersonRoom,
RubensteinLibrary,
Duke University
9:00am – Carl Ernst (UNC) ‘The Suspicious Hermeneutics
of
Authorship in the Reconstructed Diwanof al-Hallaj’
9:45am – Bruce Lawrence (Duke)‘The Koran in English: A
Biography’
10:45am – Coffee
11:00am – David Morgan (Duke)‘The Bible as an Agent
in American Protestantism’
11:45am – Kathryn Hellerstein (UPenn)‘Jewish Poets/ Jewish
Prayers:
Changing the American Siddur’
12:30pm – Lunch(Please register with [email protected])
© Victoria and Albert Museum
The Lives of
Religious Books
a symposium
1:15pm – Islamic materials in Duke’scollections, led by Dagmar
Riedel (Columbia)
Session in Rubenstein 150
2:15pm – Ursula Weekes
(Courtauld Institute)‘Early Engravings and their
Relationships
with Vernacular ‘Life of Christ’ PrayerCycles in Manuscripts of
the Devotio
Moderna during the Fifteenth Century’
3:00pm – Francis Newton (Duke)‘Monte Cassino and this
University: DukeMS lat. 79 and its Home in Southern Italy’
3:45pm – Tea
4:00pm – Closing Keynote Lecture: Dagmar Riedel
(Columbia)
‘The Lives of an Islamic Book: The Kitāb
al-Shifā by Qādī Iyād (1083–1149)’
Sunday April 3rd 7:00pm – Opening Keynote
Lecture: David Stern (Harvard), ‘The Lives of Jewish
Books’
Monday April 4th
Sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in
Critical Bibliography atRare Book School, Duke Interdisciplinary
Studies, and the Center for Jewish Studies.
For further information, please contact Jennie Grillo
([email protected])
