Main Venue: Green College \, UBC\, 6201 Cecil Green Park Rd.(Public Keynote Lectures at the Chan Cent re and the Lasserre Building). Registration requested for the Lectures at G reen College.
Lunch will be provided for those who register.
Workshop #1 - Historical Jerusalem: the City and the Metaphor
(March 16-17\, 2006)
Thursday\, March 16:
Eva Mr
oczek\, University of Toronto
Destroyed\, Rebuilt\, Imagi
ned: Transformations of Temple in Ancient Judaism
Jennif
er A. Harris\, St. Michael's College\, University of Toronto
The Jerusalem Temple in the Medieval Christian Imagination
1
1:20 Light Lunch - Green College Reception Room
12:30 Keynote Addres
s
Public Lecture co-presented by UBC Community Affairs\, Chan Cent
re for the Performing Arts\, Royal Bank Cinema
Oleg
Grabar\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton
The Fu
ture of the Past: The Old City of Jerusalem
Oleg Grabar’s talk w
ill be based on his own life history of involvement with the city of Jerusa
lem\, first as a scholar of medieval art and culture (pursuing the meaning
of the past)\, then as a member of a UNESCO panel and a member of the Aga K
ahn Steering Committee for Islamic Architecture (on how to preserve the pas
t and why)\, finally as an observer today. The question that will be debate
d is can a site be preserved and should it be preserved for religious or hi
storical reasons.
Early Afternoon Free - Suggest visit to the Museum o
f Anthropology
Reception for Speakers and organizers offered at the ho
me of Hsingyuan Tsao and James Cahill 4 PM.
Dinner for Speakers at Gre
en College 6:30 PM
(If you wish to join speakers at Green College for
dinner tickets are $18. Please notify Carol Knicely knicely@interchange.ubc.ca by Tuesday)
9:00 Coffee - Green College Reception Room
9:30 Morning Session II
Chair Kate Steinman\, Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, UBC – Green College Coach House
April Liu\, University of British Columbia
Narrating the Dome of the Rock: Constructing Myth and Identity in Early Me
dieval Jerusalem
Niall Christie\, University of
British Columbia and Corpus Christie College
Jerusalem in the Kit
ab al-Jihad of ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106)
10:45 Coffee - Green College Reception Room
11:15 Morning Session II\, cont. -
Chair Niall Christie\, Classical\, Near Eastern & Relig
ious Studies\, UBC
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives\, UC Santa Ba
rbara and University of British Columbia
Loci sancti and helighe p
laetsen: Re-performing the Sacred Spaces of Jerusalem in Fifteenth-century
Flanders and Brabant
12:30 Lunch - Green College Reception Room< br />(Speakers and Registered Participants)
2:00 Roundtable Discussi
on - Green College Small Dining Room
(Speakers and Registered Particip
ants)
This will be an opportunity for all speakers and interested wor
kshop public
to participate in an open discussion and questioning abou
t the wide
ranging historical importance of the Holy City of Jerusalem
.
5:00 Reception- Green College Reception Room
7:15 Dinner - Watermark (on Kits Beach) 1305 Arbutus
The organizers of the Jeru
salem Workshops wish to thank the generous support from the following at th
e University of British Columbia:
Green College
The Department of
Art History\, Visual Art and Theory and the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture S
eries
The President’s Office
The Office of the Vice-President\, R
esearch
The Committee for Medieval Studies
UBC Community Affairs<
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Website:
http://jerusalem.arts.ubc.ca