17:00 - 17:15

• Reception

17:15 - 17:30

• Greetings by Prof. Yitzhak Hen, Director of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

17:30 - 19:00 

• Opening Remarks - Dr. Ido Shahar
• Female Power and the Status of the Mother in Medieval Muslim Societies - Prof. Avner Giladi
• New Insights on Female Conversion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period - Prof. Ana Echeverria Arsuaga
• The Subject of History and the 51% - Prof. Jack Tannous
• Concluding Remarks - Dr. Uriel Simonsohn