Conference Room (C1.18), Graduate School of Arts, Languages and Cultures,
Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester

December 12, 2019

Convenor: Adi S. Bharat, University of Manchester

Programme

10:00-10:20am: Registration and Coffee/Tea (Atrium)

10:20-10:30: Opening Remarks

10:30-11am: Adi S. Bharat, University of Manchester

Queering Jewish-Muslim relations in France? The case of LGBT Jewish and Muslim associations Beit Haverim and HM2F

11-11:30am: Ezra Stripe, Hidayah LGBTQI

Seeking guidance, needing redemption: The real lives at the centre of LGBT discourse in Islam

11:30-12pm: Katja Stuerzenhofecker, University of Manchester

Everything You Always Needed to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask the Rabbi): Women Legal Advisors And Innovation in Jewish Leadership

12-12:30pm: Cathy Gelbin, University of Manchester

Gender, sex and Jewishness in early queer cinema

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch (Atrium)

1:30-2pm: Dalia Mostafa, University of Manchester

1940s Alexandria as a melting pot of religions and ideologies in Youssef Chahine s film Alexandria   Why?

2-2:30pm: Noam Sienna, University of Minnesota

A Rainbow Thread: The intersection of Jewish and queer identities from the first century to 1969

2:30-2:45pm: Break (Atrium)

2:45-4:15pm: Imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, CALEM Institute & Rabbi Elli Sarah, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue

Queer(ing) Islam and Judaism: Theological perspectives

4:15-4:30pm: Break (Atrium)

4:30-5:45pm: Keynote

Shanon Shah, King s College London

LGBTQI inclusion and the persistent securitisation of Muslims

5:45-6pm: Closing Remarks

Co-sponsored by artsmethods@manchester and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages

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