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Are the Arts Essential?. Specialists will take the customary deliberations about arts and culture into new, substantive, and shaping discussion. Beyond “leisure” or “entertainment,” beyond art’s personal impacts, beyond contributions to tourism, community building, or the classroom, do the arts and culture power progress? This convening will ask if (and how) the arts provide structures and strategies for social change, how they help define peoples and nations, how they deal with actual matters of life and death. Are the arts essential in ways that economics and medicine and politics are? If so, how is this manifest? What are the theoretical…

Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World: A Conference. In 2009, The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society and the New York Open Center began the first of a series of conferences together on the great mystic Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi. We now present the second conference in this series, this one focusing on the relationship of Ibn 'Arabi's teachings to those of Jalaluddin Rumi, the other giant of Sufi mysticism.

tabsir.net » Numismatics at Hofstra. The Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies program at Hofstra announces the Fourth Seminar on Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics in Memoriam Boris Kochnev  Hofstra University, Breslin Hall 217, March 17, 2012