Temple – Synagogue – Church – Mosque:
Connections, Interactions, and the Politics of Conversion

Thursday, April 25, 2:30–7:00
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

2:30–3:00
Sabine Frommel & Holger A. Klein
Introductions

3:00–3:30
Philippe Bernard, EPHE, PSL
A Latin Mass Formulary for the Dedication of a Church ‘in a place where there was once a synagoga’ in Late Antique Rome
Discussion

3:45–4:15
Ioanna Rapti, EPHE, PSL
The Holy Cave from Martyrium to Memorial: Inter-visuality and Space in the Basilica of Bethlehem
Discussion

4:15–4:45
Coffee Break (Stronach Lounge)

5:00–5:30
Luis Rueda Galan, Universidad de Jaén / EPHE, PSL
The Conversion of Andalusian Mosques during the Late Middle Ages: The Formation of a Cross-Cultural Model of Church
Discussion

6:00
Evening Lecture
Ünver Rüstem, Johns Hopkins University
Victory without Conquest: Ottoman Imperial Mosques and Their Symbolism in the “Age of Decline”

Reception (Stronach Lounge)

Friday, April 26, 9:30–5:00
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

9:30–10:00
Pinar Aykac Leidholm, Middle East Technical University
Contesting the Past: Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia as an Ideological Battleground in Turkey
Discussion

10:15–10:45
Holger A. Klein, Columbia University
Contesting the Future: Hagia Sophia in Vize and the Politics of Conversion
Discussion

11:00
Coffee Break (Stronach Lounge)

11:30–12:00
Savannah Esquivel, University of Chicago
Living with the Dead in a Colonial Mexican Monastery
Discussion

12:15–12:45
Arathi Menon, Columbia University
Trading Spaces: The Thazhathangady Juma Masjid in Kottayam, Kerala
Discussion

1:00–3:00
Lunch Break

3:00–3:30
Sabine Frommel, EPHE, PSL
The Early Modern Unified Space Ideal: Function and Aesthetics
Discussion

3:45–4:15
Isabelle Saint Martin, EPHE, PSL
Interfaith Places of Worship and Spiritual Spaces in Hospitals in France
Discussion

4:30–5:00
Final Remarks

5:00Reception (Stronach Lounge)