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| 14 May 2022 | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | |
| Panel: Interfaith and Intrafaith Studies | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes | |
| Q. 9: 28 and its Role in Sunni/Shi‘a Polemics | Oliver Leaman, Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy |
| American Shia Muslim Interfaith Engagement: How Shia Muslims Can Achieve Peaceful Coexistence with American Evangelicals | Tim Orr, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus, USA |
| Nader Shah’s Ja‘fari Madhhab: Shi‘i-Sunni Reconciliation in an Imperial Context | Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa, SOAS, London, UK |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | |
| Break | |
| 10:15 – 1:00 | |
| Panel: Theology, History, and Sacred Texts | |
| Chaired by Amir DeMartino | |
| Inscriptions As a New Source in Ismaili History | Karim Javan, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK |
| The Unknowable Lord Has Manifested: Quiddity of Deity Between Divine Immanence, and Divine Transcendence, within the Ismaili Ginān | Stephen Cúrto, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| The Prophetic Sīrah through the Qurʿānic Paradigm: A Case Study of the Battle of Uḥud | Zoheir Ali Esmail, London, UK |
| Quranic Verses Shaping Djem and False Perception of Alevism in the Society | Birul Topuz, Potsdam, Germany |
| A Mobile and Invisible Religion: The Kizilbash (Alevi) Belief System in Dersim | Cevat Dargin, Princeton, USA |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | |
| Lunch | |
| 2:00 – 3:45 | |
| Panel: Film, Theatre, Literature, and Social Media | |
| Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian | |
| How does the Hollywood film Dune present the Mahdi through a secular humanist lens? | Reza John Vedadi, Loughborough University, London |
| A Tale of Harmony in Different Contexts: Premchand’s Theatrical Adaptation of the Epic of Karbala | Anuran Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| The Holy Grail, Islam, and Imam ‘Ali | Frank Gelli, Church of England |
| Shi‘a Visual Epistemology and its Application in the Field of Social Media | Malakeh Shahi, Berlin, Germany |
| Expressing Devotion to Shi‘i Imams in the Early Modern Poetry from Badakhshan | Nourmamadcho, Nourmamadchoev, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | |
| Break | |
| 4:00 – 5:30 | |
| Panel: Islamic Law | |
| Chaired by Mohammed Ali Ismail | |
| Some Notes on the Uses of Documentary Evidence in Imami Law | Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| Changing Patterns in Fatwas on Women in the Contemporary Shi‘a World | Leila Chamankhah, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Sharia and the Development of Iranian Family Law | Fateme Zeynodini, Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran |
| The Concept of Insaf (Equity) According to its Applications in the Words of Jurists | Javad Esmaeili, International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran |
| 5:30 – 6:30 | |
| Panel: Philosophy | |
| Chaired by Hamid Tehrani | |
| A New Critical Approach to Fact-Value Relationships | Ali Paya, The Islamic College, London, UK |
| Deceit, the Imagination, and Reason: Ibn Khaldūn and Occult Causation | Reem Elghonimi, Austin, Texas, USA |
| A Sadrian Interpretation of Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument | Adam Ient, Peterborough, UK |
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- First Annual Conference 2015
- Second Annual Conference 2016
- Third Annual Conference 2017
- Fourth Annual Conference 2018
- Fifth Annual Conference 2019
- Sixth Annual Conference 2020
- Eighth Annual Conference 2023
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