The Carthage School on Cultural Pluralism and Political Liberties

The Third Annual Reset Dialogues Seminars in North Africa

29 June – 03 July 2020

Online, Via Zoom

14:00-19:00 (Carthage/Algiers/Rabat Time, GMT +1)

15:00-20:00 (Rome, GMT+2)

16:00-21:00 (Baghdad/Beirut, GMT+3)

09:00-14:00 (New York, GMT -5)

06:00-11:00 (San Francisco, GMT -8)

Organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations Association in Milan and Reset Dialogues US, in collaboration with The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts “Beit al-Hikma”, and the support of the Henry Luce Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

The following schedule is according to Rome Time.

MONDAY 29 JUNE

Opening Lesson and Introduction

3-3:30 pm – Introduction 

Giancarlo Bosetti / Mohammed Hashas / Federica Zoja / Jonathan Laurence

4 pm  – Lesson 1: Mohamed Haddad (Carthage University, Tunisia)

Tunisia and the Pandemics: Secularization of Society and the State in “the Long Term”

4.50 – 5 pm Break

5 pm  – Lesson 2: Soumia Boutkhil (Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco)

Women and Justice and Equity in Contemporary Morocco 

5.50 – 6 pm Break

6 pm – Lesson 3:  Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Gender Equality in the Inheritance Debate in Tunisia and the Formation of Non-Authoritarian Reasoning

6.50 – 7 pm Break

7 pm – Lesson 4: Jonathan Laurence (Boston College, US)

Paths to Toleration in the US and Europe

TUESDAY 30 JUNE

3 pm – Lesson 1: Nader Hammami (University omf Carthage)

Representations of Evil and Suffering in Islamic Thought

3.50 – 4 pm Break

4 pm – Lesson 2: Jocelyne Cesari (Georgetown and Birmingham Universities (US/UK))

Political Islam and why it matters for Religious Pluralism and Tolerance

4.50 – 5 pm Break

5 pm – Lesson 3: Mohamed Mesbahi (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)

Freedom in classical Arab Philosophy: Ibn Arabi and Ibn Roshd 

5.50-6 pm Break

6 pm – Lesson 4 – Debora Spini (Syracuse University in Florence) 

Protestant Reformation, Toleration, Freedom of Religion: Theology and Politics

Wed., 1 July -Thurs. 2 July: International Conference (open to the public)

THURSDAY 2 JULY

2 pm – Workshop in groups

FRIDAY 3 JULY

3 pm – Lesson 1: Mohammed Hashas (Luiss University of Rome; Fscire-La Pira Centre, Palermo)

Liberty in Contemporary Arab Thought

3.50 – 4 pm Break

4 pm – Lesson 2: Alessandro Ferrari (University of Insubria in Varese)

Religion and Law in Europe

4.50 – 5 pm Break

5 pm – Lesson 3:  Federica Zoja (Reset Dialogues on Civilizations)

Religious Freedom in the European Media

5.50 – 6 pm Break

6 – 6:15 pm Conclusions