Ethics, Globalisation and Business in the Judaeo-Islamic Milieu

Amir Ashur Announcement
Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
Islamic History / Studies, Jewish History / Studies, Middle East History / Studies, Slavery, Sociology

Workshop: Ethics, Globalisation and Business

in the Judaeo-Islamic Milieu

18–20 July 2016

Cambridge University Library, Milstein Room

Monday, July 18

09:00- 09:30 Registration

09:00- 09:30 Welcome

 By Ben Outhwaite (University of Cambridge, Head of the Genizah Research Unit) and Zvi Stampfer (University of Cambridge, Genizah Research Unit)

 

09:45 - 11:15 Informal enforcement of proper conduct

Chairperson:

  • Menahem Ben-Sasson (President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Rabbi Reuven Leigh (University of Cambridge)
  • Yehuda Barukh (Southampton Business School, University of Southampton)

 

11:15-11:30 Coffee

 

11:30-13:00 Caring Responsibly for the Property of Others Chairperson:

  • Robert Brody (Department of Talmud and Halakha, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Rabbi Ofer Livnat (Montefiore College, London, and Dayan at the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Beit Din, Jerusalem)
  • Yotam Lurie (Chair of the Department of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

 

14:30-15:30 Women Trafficking I (Medieval and Religious aspects)

Chairperson:

  • Amir Ashur (Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University)
  • Avital Eshed (Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University)

15:30- 15:45 Coffee

15:45-16:45 Women Trafficking II (Modern approach)

  • Shlomo Giora Shoham (Department of criminology, Tel Aviv University)
  • Dina Siegel – Rozenblit (School of Law, Utrecht University)

 

16:45-17:45 Cambridge tour (closed event).

17:45-19:00 Reception @ The Lehrhaus Cambridge (closed event).

 Keynote speaker Professor Asa Kasher (Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair in Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel Aviv University)

 

Tuesday, July 19

 

09:15–10:45 Genizah Presentation

 

10:45–11:00 Coffee

 

11:00-12:30 Truth and Deception when Challenged by a Hostile Judiciary

  • Mordechai Akiva Friedman (Hebrew Culture Studies Department, Tel Aviv University).
  • Haim Hillel Ben Sasson (Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy).
  • Yossef Rapoport (Islamic History, Queen Mary University of London)

 

12:30–14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00-15:30 From Partners to debtors: Partnership Investment Transforms into a Loan

Chairperson:

  • Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman  (Jewish Studies and Law, Religious Studies, and Islamic Studies and History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Rabbi Yisrael Malkiel (Cambridge & East Anglia Chaplain)
  • Talia Gillis (Harvard Law School)

 

15:30-15:45 Coffee

 

15:45- 17:00 The Arms Trade:

Chairperson:

  • Zvi Stampfer (University of Cambridge, Genizah Research Unit)
  • Asa Kasher (Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair in Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel Aviv University)

 

 

17:00–17:15 Coffee

 

 

18:30 Performance at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

 

Wednesday, July 20

 

09:15–10:45 Managing risk and responsibility: the role of Jewish and Muslim Identity in Genizah merchant trade

 

Chairperson:

  • Jessica Goldberg (Department of History, UCLA)
  • Juni Hoppe (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
  • David A Frenkel (Department of Business Administration, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee

 

11:00–12:00 Discussion: How can medieval culture inform and enrich modern discussions on business and ethics, and vice versa?

Hosted by Ben Outhwaite (University of Cambridge, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit)

 

 

Contact Email
amirash@post.tau.ac.il