Venue: Faculty of Theology, 6 Sept: Faculty Hall and 7 Sept: Hall 531, Vuorikatu 3, 5th floor

WEDNESDAY 6 Sept.

9:00 Coffee (included for all participants of the workshop)

SESSION 1: INTERCHANGES BETWEEN POPULAR AND INSTITUTIONAL

9.30–10.15  Keynote: Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): “Alexandria in the Literary Memory of the Rabbis: The Failure of Culture Translation and the Textual Powers of Women”

Hasan-Rokem’s lecture illuminates the regional and cultural differences between Rabbinic textual creativity in Palestine (Galilee, Judea and Caesarea) and in Babylonia. The sum of these voices crosses the main line of the course “between folk literature and canonizing institutions,” eventually breaking down the dichotomy.

10.15–10.30  Response: Panu-Matti Pöykkö (Harvard, USA via Skype)

10.30–11.30  Discussion

11.30–13.30  Lunch (not included to the seminar)

SESSION 2: “una religio in rituum varietate”

13:30–15:30 Panel discussion based on the maxim of Nicolaus of Cusa “one religion, variety of rites” in his De pace fidei. Panelists: Anna-Liisa Tolonen, Marika Rauhala, Antti Ruotsala, and Pekka Kärkkäinen; Chair: Virpi Mäkinen

Coffee

18:00 Dinner (for speakers and respondents)

THURSDAY 7 Sep

9:00  Coffee (included for all participants of the workshop)

SESSION 3: JUSTICE TO ANIMALS

9:30–10:15  Miira Tuominen: Learning what Justice Is and Living It – The Case of Porphyry’s On Abstinence

10:15–11:00 Janne Mattila: The Animal Fable of the Brethren of Purity in Context – The Moral Status of Animals in Early Islamic Thought

Coffee break

11:15–12:00 Juhana Toivanen: On the Moral Status of Animals in Medieval Philosophy

12:30 Lunch (for speakers)

WELCOME!