Date & Time: 04/01/2005

Location: ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

Tuesday, 4 January, 2005
19:30. Opening reception at the Academy.
Opening Remarks
KEYNOTE SPEECH: PROF. MARCUS MOSELEY, ´´Autobiography as a Mode of Self-Knowledge´´.

Wednesday, 5 January, 2005
I. UNKNOWING
9:00-10:30
Sergio La Porta, “Divine Self-Ignorance: Reflections on the Nothingness of God.´´

Jonathan Garb, “God’s Lack of Self-Knowledge in Kabbalah.´´

COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00

II. LIBERATION
11:00-12:30
Yaakov Raz, “To Know the Self is to Forget the Self: Autognosis according to Japanese Zen Master Dogen.´´

Yohanan Grinshpon, “Self-identification in the Upanisadic Tradition.´´

LUNCH
12:30-14:00

III. KNOWING
14:00-15:30
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, “‘The Stirrings of Human Knowledge’ in Isaac of Nineveh´´s Chapters on Knowledge.´´

Sara Sviri, “Who Knows What? Reading in Ibn Arabi’s Epistemology.´´

COFFEE BREAK
15:30-16:00

16:00-17:00
Marcus Moseley, “Reveries of a Solitary Reader: Sh. Y. Abramovitsh’s (Mendele Mokher Sefarim) Shloyme reb khayims.

Thursday, 6 January, 2005
IV. SELF -CULTIVATION
9:00-10:30
Rachel Blass, “’Wissbegierde’: Freud on the Passionate Desire to Know as Seen in his study of Leonardo da Vinci.´´

Guy Stroumsa, “From Knowledge of the Self to Care of the Self in Late Antiquity.´´

COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00

V. RECOGNITION
11:00-12:30
David Shulman, “A Saiva Theory of Self-Knoweldge.´´

Don Handelman, “Awakening the Goddess, Awakening Cosmos.´´

LUNCH
12:30-2:00

VI. DISCOVERY
16:00 (This session will be held at Tmol Shilshom)

Yigal Bronner, “‘A Sun Grown Dim Rising; A Barren Tree Yielding Fruit’: On the Process of Self-realization in Sanskrit Poetry´´

James Russell, “Being in Two Places at Once: Divine Autognosis in Iran.´´

Benny Shanon, “Divine Knowledge in the Context of Ayahuasca.´´

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