Saturday, April 12, 2008
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Yale University

Conference Schedule

8:00 - 9:00am Registration; Breakfast & Coffee

9:00 - 9:15am Welcome

9:30 - 11:30am Panel 1: Points of Departure: Mapping Epistemologies of Science & Religion
Response: Professor Frank Griffel; Moderator: Sayeed Rahman

10:30 - 10:45am Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:00pm Panel 1, Session ii:
Response: Professor Andrew March; Moderator: Yasir Kazi

12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch Break and Dhuhr Prayers

1:30 - 2:45pm Panel 2: Science and Religion—The Expanding Realm of Bioethics
Response: Professor Sherine Hamdy; Moderator: Homayra Ziad

3:00 - 4:45pm Panel 3: Classical Ideas, Modern Application
Response: Professor Gerhard Bowering; Moderator: Matthew Ingalls

5:00 - 5:30pm Coffee Break and 'Asr Prayers

5:30 - 6:30pm Roundtable Panel Discussion, Moderator: Professor Zareena Grewal

6:30 - 7:30pm Conference Keynote

Introduction: Professor Dimitri Gutas

Address: "The Rise of Modern Science and its Implications for Islamic Societies," by George Saliba, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University

7:30pm Conclusion & Maghrib Prayers