New Perspectives and Contexts in the Study of Islamic Origins / 8th Nangeroni Meeting (2017 Florence), conference

Guillaume Dye, Free University of Brussels (ULB)

Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan

Early Islam (2017) is the topic of the 8th conference in the series of Nangeroni Meetings, and the second conference of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar, organized by the Enoch Seminar in Florence, Italy (June 2017).

8th Nangeroni Meeting (Florence, Italy; June 12-16, 2017)

Chair: Guillaume Dye (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)

Co-Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)

Secretary: Rodney Caruthers (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)

Preliminary Information

When: June 12-16, 2017

Accommodations: Florence, Italy

Location of the Seminar:

Purpose: The meeting aims at examining afresh formative Islam in its the late-antique context. The pre-circulating papers shall be presented briefly (5 min.) before being discussed by the participants (respondents will be allowed 10 min. to respond before the general discussion begins).

Paper Submission: All papers should be submitted by May 15, 2017. This will allow respondents and other participants enough time to prepare their responses and critical comments.

Paper Length: Major papers should be 6,000 words maximum; short papers, 3,000 words maximum.

Prospective Publication: A volume will be published with a selection of the papers offered atf the conference, which overall purpose is to contribute to the renewed study of Islamic origins in close dialogue with scholars working on the late-antique Near East, Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and Sassanian Iran.

Participation in the Early Islamic Studies Seminar is by invitation only.

Should you like to present a short paper, please send to the chair of the conference, Guillaume Dye (gdye@noos.fr), by May 2017.

Should you simply like to attend the conference, or receive further information about it, please contact its secretary, Rodney Caruthers (rodneyac@umich.edu) at your earliest convenience.

Accommodations

We have secured a lovely place in Florence, Italy for our accommodations. Four nights lodging and all breakfasts and lunches are included in the cost, paid directly in Florence:

• €0 – Authors of Major Papers
• €200 – Major Paper Respondents
• €300 – Everyone else
• €200 – Guests (children under 14, staying in the same room, are free)

Registration

Participation in the 8th Nangeroni Meeting is by invitation only. If you have already secured your participation, please fill out the official online registration form and pay your registration fee by February 28, 2017.

The registration fee is based on the number of Enoch Seminars/Nangeroni Meetings you have attended in the past:

• $125 – Newcomers
• $110 – Attended 1 Enoch Seminar
• $100 – Attended 2 Enoch Seminars
• $90 – Attended 3 Enoch Seminars
• $75 – Attended 4 or 5 Enoch Seminars + all emeriti
• $0 – Attended 6 or more Enoch Seminars or Nangeroni Meetings

This registration fee is a donation to our sponsor, the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, and it is tax-deductible for U.S. residents. The registration fee is refundable (minus a $50 administrative processing fee) 30 days prior to the start of the Seminar (i.e. by May 15, 2015) if for some reason you are unable to attend.

Provisional Schedule

Monday 12 June 2017

Morning: arrivals

Afternoon:

• 16:00-17:15 - Welcome & Opening session
• 17:45-19:30 - 1st paper
• 20:00 - Dinner

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Morning:

• 9:00-10:15 - Reading sessions
• 10:45–12:30 - 2nd paper

13:00 - Lunch

Afternoon:

• Short paper sessions +
• 3rd paper

Evening: Possible Public Lecture (organized by the City Council of Florence)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

Morning:

• Short paper sessions
• 4th paper

Afternoon: Free (Guided tour of St. John Baptistery, The Cathedral, and the new Museo dell'Opera del Duomo [spectacular!])

Thursday 15 June 2017

Morning:

• Reading sessions
• 5th paper

Afternoon: 6th paper + Short paper sessions

Evening: Possible Public Lecture (organized by the Catholic Faculty of Theology of Florence)

Friday 16 June 2017

Morning:

• 9:00–10:45 - 7th paper
• 11:15-12:30 - Conclusions

Afternoon: departures

Participants

8th Nangeroni Meeting (EISS), Florence, 12-16 June 2017

Participants

Chair: 1) Dye, Guillaume 2) Tesei, Tommaso 3) Boccaccini, Gabriel

Organization: 4) Zurawski, Jason

Major speakers 5) Debié, Muriel (as major speaker or respondent?) 6) Hughes, Aaron 7) Milwright, Marcus 8) Reynolds, Gabriel 9) Shoshan, Boaz 10) Tesei, Tommaso

Respondents 11) Bonner, Michael (respondent for Shoshan) Debié, Muriel (possible respondent for Tommaso, otherwise Stoyanov or Wood?) Dye, Guillaume (respondent for Hughes) 12) Kropp, Manfred (respondent for Milwright) 13) Oliver, Isaac (as respondent for Reynolds or for a minor paper?) 14) Shoemaker, Stephen (respondent for Debié if she gives a major paper)

Reading sessions 15) Legendre, Marie 16) Powers, David

Short papers 17) Agostini, Domenico 18) Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali 19) Azaiez, Mehdi 20) Bjerregaard Mortensen, Mette 21) Cook, David 22) Courtieu, Gilles 23) D’Ottone, Ariana 24) Fedeli, Alba 25) Gonzalez Ferrin, Emilio 26) Hilali, Asma 27) Hoffmann, Thomas 28) Neuenkirchen, Paul Oliver, Isaac 29) Pohlmann, Karl-Friedrich 30) Reed, Annette (? – should confirm) 31) Sahner, Christian 32) Swanson, Dwight 33) Wood, Philip

Under reservation 34) DiTommaso, Lorenzo (short paper?) 35) Stoyanov, Yuri (respondent or short paper?)

Audience 36) Akeel, Almarei (?) 37) Audi, Youssef (?) 38) Holcatova, Barbara (?) 39) Kerr, Robert (?) 40) Klostergaard Petersen, Anders 41) Mimouni, Simon (?) Gushina, Ekaterina (does not need any accommodation)