On a Seminar Sadly Missed: Tea, crumpets, and whirling ...

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Oh, how I wish I could have attended this weekend past of Baha'i scholarship. -gw

Religious Studies - Shi`i-Shaykhi, Babi-Baha’i Studies Academic Seminar Newcastle Baha’i Centre September 14-16th 2007

■PROGRAMME
■ FRIDAY, September 14
Session I
7.00 pm - Introduction and History of the UK Seminars
7.30 pm - Conference reports (MESA, Anjuman, Irfan, etc.); work in progress
8:00 pm - Roger Prentice : Toward a Bahā’ī-inspired Aesthetic including its`spirit’ and relationship to other central concerns.
9:00 pm - Sholeh Quinn : The Master and the Professor, A Tablet of `Abdu’l-Bahā’ to T. K. Cheyne (1846-1915).
■ SATURDAY, September 15
Session II
10:00-11:00 - Bijan Davarpanah : Did the Bāb and Bahā’u’llāh meet? Some scriptural, historical and theological approaches.
11:00-11:30 - BREAK
11:30-12:30 - Moojan Momen : Marginality and Apostasy in the Bahā’ī Community.
12:30-2:00 - LUNCH
Session III
2:00-3:00 - Erfan Sabeti : Bahā’īs and Mormons in the Global Field.
3:00-3.30 -BREAK
3:30-4:00 - Stephen Lambden: Shī``ī concepts of the Mightiest Name of God and the poem of Shaykh Bahā’ī on its recondite mysteries.
4:00-5:00 - Roger Prentice : The Spirit of Photography within art as mystical experience – a Bahā’ī perspective
5:00-5.30 - BREAK
5:30-6.30 - Moojan Momen : Changing Reality: the Baha’i Community and the creation of a New Reality.
7:00 - DINNER : TEA, CRUMPETS AND WHIRLING…
■ SUNDAY, September 16
Session IV
10:00-11:00 - Hooshmand Badii : The role of religion in Advancing Human Welfare
11:00-11:30 - BREAK
11:30-12:30 - Geoffrey Nash : Gobineau’s Persia : Diversity and invention in a Nineteenth Century Shi`ih Society.
Session V
1:00-2.00 - LUNCH
2:00-3:00 - Stephen Lambden : The Sūrah titles of the Qayyūm al-asmā’. Gateways to the earliest thought of the Bāb
3:00-4:00 - General Discussion

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