University of Southern California

National and International Events

November 2009

Weekend of Twinning of Mosques and Synagogues Across North American and Europe: November 13-15, 2009
People with questions about planning their Weekend of Twinning programs should contact Walter Ruby at this e-mail address or at 917 294-1772. The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding would greatly appreciate if you can e-mail them by Monday October 26 information as to when and where your Weekend of Twinning program(s) will be taking place and a little on the planned content.

Confronting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
An exploration of their socio-historic and theological roots and similarities
One Day International Conference

Sponsored by: The Joseph Interfaith Foundation in association with The Centre for Jewish Studies at SOAS: University of London and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: The University of Exeter

Tuesday 10th November 2009, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG

To register and for more information please contact: info@josephinterfaithfoundation.org

June 2009

Jews of Arab Culture, 1948-2009
Cambridge, 22-24 June, 2009
Westcott House, Cambridge, UK

An international Conference organized by the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (CMJR) and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, under the patronage of HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal and supported by the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Amman

While the study of medieval and early modern Judaeo-Arabic culture & literature is a comparatively well established field in Western academia, there exists so far no comprehensive study of the more recent Arabic literature written by Jews. The conference will attempt to fill this gap and explore various aspects of the process of 'De-Arabization' of the literary culture of "Arab Jews" since the 1940s. The conference will convene a number of internationally renowned academics to explore and discuss the past sixty years of Arab Jewish culture(s) and discuss the repercussions of a cultural extinction. For the details and Registration Form, please visit the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (CMJR)