Tuesday, January 19 (9:30am – 1pm PST // 12:30pm – 4pm EST)
9:30am – Introduction and Welcome: Karen Barkey and Jonathan Laurence
9:50am – Keynote Address: Religious Tolerance Revisited –Denis Lacorne (Sciences Po)
11am – Panel: Thinking Toleration
- On pluralism in the Quran and Islamic philosophy – Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University)
- Beyond Toleration? Syncretism, Amalgamation, and Religious Multiplicity in the Shinto Tradition – Fabio Rambelli (UC Santa Barbara)
- Hasidism and Toleration – Sam Berrin Shonkoff (Graduate Theological Union)
- Commenter: Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)
Wednesday, January 20 (11am – 1pm PST // 2pm – 4pm EST)
11am – Panel: Minorities, Pluralism, Law
- Toleration: Thought and Practice in the Societies of the Medieval Islamic World – Lev Weitz (Catholic University of America)
- The Elusive Toleration of Islam in Europe – Jonathan Laurence (Boston College)
- The Way has not a Constant Name. State Attitudes to Religious Toleration in Chinese History – Eugenio Menegon (Boston University)
- Commenter: Karen Barkey (UC Berkeley)
Thursday, January 21 (11am – 1pm PST // 2pm – 4pm EST)
11am – Panel: Sacred Space and Tolerance
- The Politics of Jewish Neighborhood: Exclusiveness and Tolerance in Rabbinic Law – Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University)
- Sounds of Emancipation: Politics, Identity, and Music in 19th-century Italian Synagogues – Francesco Spagnolo (UC Berkeley)
- Intolerance Under the Guise of Tolerance: Religious Diversity in Thirteenth-century India – Elaine M. Fisher (Stanford University)
- Tolerance and Rights: An Exploration of Medieval Canon Law – Alberto Melloni (University of Modena-Reggio)
- Commenter: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli)
Friday, January 22 (9am – 11am PST // 12pm – 2pm EST)
9am – Panel: Politics, Political Theory and Toleration
- Late Roman Toleration or How to Read an Imperial Edict: Theodosius to All the People on the Catholic religio – Susanna Elm (UC Berkeley)
- Asoka’s Dhamma: social toleration or communal Harmony – Rajeev Bhargava (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
- Church and State in the European Toleration Debates, 1560-1655 – Noah Dauber (Colgate University)
- Commenter: Simon Brown (UC Berkeley)
Saturday, January 23 (11am – 1pm PST // 2pm – 4pm EST)
UPDATE 1/22/2021 – SATURDAY’S PANEL WILL BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC.
11am – Panel: Text, Translation, Interpretation
- Tolerance and Intolerance in the Hebrew Bible – Robert Alter (UC Berkeley)
- Ecumenical Community: The Ummah in the Quran – Hamza Zafer (University of Washington)
- Toleration, Religion, and the Enlightenment – William Bulman (Lehigh University)
- Commenter: David Marno (UC Berkeley)