Welcome by Ufuk Topkara, Asher Biemann, and Oludamini Ogunnaike

Ephraim Meir (Bar Ilan, Israel), "Reflections on Tzelem and Human Reconciliation"

Atif Khalil (University of Lethbridge): "Iḥsān, Catharsis, and the Trilogy of the Soul"

Jennifer Geddes (UVA), Chair

Catered by Afghan Kabob

Greg Schmidt Goering (UVA): “Tzelem in the Hebrew Bible: Aesthetic and Ethical Considerations”

Fatma Ayyildiz (Humboldt, Berlin): "Intentional Orientation, Consequences and Iḥsān: An Examination of Islamic Moral Philosophical Theories."

Marcia Pally (NYU): "B’tselem Elohim: Ground for Inclusionary Covenantal Commitments"

Shankar Nair (UVA), Chair

Tugrul Kurt (Humboldt, Berlin): “Exploring Iḥsān in Islamic Mystical Exegesis: A Study on Isrāʾīliyyāt Contributions.”

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander (UVA): "Tzelem in Rabbinic Literature"

Ufuk Topkara (Humboldt, Berlin), Chair

Jessica Andruss (UVA): "Image in Maimonides's Epistle to Yemen."

Syed Zaidi (Fordham University): “Isaac Israeli’s Conception of Iḥsān and Tzelem in his Philosophical Thought.”

Caroline Kahlenberg (UVA), Chair

Bahattin Akyol (Humboldt, Berlin): Ethical considerations regarding iḥsān.”

Shira Billet (JTS): “Tzelem in Modern Jewish Thought.”

Serdar Kurnaz (Humboldt, Berlin), Chair

Amna Tarar (UVA): “The spinning wheel proclaims ‘God’!: Cultivating Iḥsān Through the Vernacular Poetry of Shah Husain.”

Caleb Hendrickson (UVA): “Image-Thinker, Symbol-Thinker: Rosenzweig, Tillich, and the Figuring of Tradition.”

Asher Mattern (Tübingen University): “Desire and Image: On Overcoming Bad Faith.”

Asher Biemann (UVA), Chair

Esma Ünsal (Humboldt, Berlin): “Framing an aesthetic mind. Navid Kermani‘s work as a pathway to an aesthetic epistemology.”

Zachary Braiterman (Syracuse University): “What is an Image? Phenomenological Reflections.”

Ahmed al-Rahim (UVA), Chair

Mohammad Gharaibeh,(Humboldt, Berlin)

Mira Sievers,(Humboldt, Berlin)

Aydin Süer,(Humboldt, Berlin)

Esra Almas (Bilkent university, Ankara) & Jack Kugelmass (U of Florida): “Reverence and Revulsion: Tombstone images at the Sabbatian Cemetery in Istanbul.”

Arthur Schechter (independent scholar): “The Practice of Virtue as a Lay Theurgy? The Ontology of Moral Beauty in the Vernacular Sufi Teachings of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī (d. 1329).”

Oludamini Ogunnaike (UVA), Chair