Panel 4 - The Qur'an, Nature, and Environmentalism
Chair: Devin Stewart
9:00 AM
10:20 AM
Break
Coffee, tea, water, & snacks available.
10:40 AM
Panel 5 - The Qur'an and Biblical Literature
Chair: Vanessa De Gifis
12:00 PM
Lunch Break / Graduate Student Mentoring Luncheon
Conference Lunch Break Conference attendees are free to enjoy lunch during this break. Lunch will be served on the courtyard terrace adjacent to the Dean’s Conference Room. Graduate Student Mentoring Luncheon (RSVP only) Graduate students & early career scholars who registered for the mentoring luncheon will meet with faculty mentors for informal conversation and networking over lunch. Location: Café Landtmann, Landtmann HallUniversitätsring 4, 1010 Vienna (approximately a 2-5 minute walk from the University of Vienna) Participants who RSVP'd will receive additional details by email.
1:30 PM
Panel 6 - Pre-Islamic Arabia: Epigraphy, Religion, and Language
Chair: Marijn van Putten
2:50 PM
Break
Coffee, tea, water, & snacks available.
3:05 PM
Panel 7 - Qira'at and the Reading Traditions
Chair: Hythem Sidky
4:25 PM
Break
Coffee, tea, water, and snacks available.
4:40 PM
Roundtable — Teaching the Qur'an in the Contemporary Academy
Sara Omar, Karen Bauer, Vanessa DeGifis, Andrew O'Connor, Nadja Abuhussein, Devin Stewart, Tehseen Thaver
6:30 PM
Presidential Address + Dinner / Reception
IQSA President: Johanna Pink Respondent: Shawkat Toorawa
