Sunday,
28 January2007:

Arrival 

19.30

Dinner

Monday,
29 January 2007:

09.30 – 10.00

Registration

10.00 – 10.45

Opening Session

Hardy OSTRY
Regional Representative
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung e.V.
Regional Program Near East/ Mediterranean
Amman

Hassan Abu Nimah
Director
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies
Amman

Pier Cesare BORI
Professor
University of Bologna
Academic Group of Reflexion on the Reform of Religions
Bologna

Presentation of the Conference Concept

Mohamed HADDAD
Scientific Coordinator of the Conference
University of Tunisia
Tunis

10.45 – 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 – 13.00

First Working Session

“Religions and the Human Welfare”
Moderator: Mohamed HADDAD
Scientific Coordinator of the Conference
University of Tunisia
Tunis

“Modern Times, Modern Ties? Reconsidering Religious Reforms in the Arab World”
Nadia AL BAGDADI
Professor
Central European University
Budapest

“Religious Reform and Hermeneutics of Origins”
Pier Cesare BORI Professor
University of Bologna
Bologna

“The Druze in the Past and Present : A New View For the National and Human Welfare”
Abbas HALABI
Professor
University St Joseph
Beirut

Discussion

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.00

Second Working Session

“Judaism and Reforms”
Moderator: Pier Cesare BORI
University of Bologna 
Bologna

“Secular Legislation and Religious Counter-Reformation”
Joseph DAVID
Professor
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

“Religion as a Reform Mechanism- The Interfaith Encounter Approach”
Yehuda STOLOV
Director
Interfaith Encounter Association  
Jerusalem

“The Idea of Reform in Judaism between continuity and rupture  in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
Olivier SAYADI
Professor
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Sciences Religieuses
Paris

Discussion

16.00 – 16.15

Coffee break

16.15 – 18.15

Third Working Session

“Christianity in Times of Reform”
Moderator: Father Nabil HADDAD
Executive Director
Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Center
Amman

“Reform Christianity: a Historic Outline”
Alberto MELLONI
President
Giovanni XXIII Foundation
Italy

“Orthodox Christianity Faced with the Challenge of Reform and Renovation”
Pantelis KALAITZIDIS
Volos

“Calvin, Humanist and  Reformer in ‘Le petit traité de la sainte cène’”
Abderrazak SAYADI
Assistant Professor
University of La Manouba
Tunis

“Women Views on Reform”
Leitizia TOMASSONE
Theologist and Pastor of the Valdese Church
Bologna

Discussion

19.30

Dinner

Tuesday,
30 January 2007:

8.30 – 11.00

Departure to Mont Nebo

11.00 – 11.15

Registration and Coffee break

11.15 - 13.00

Fourth Working Session

“Ways of Reform in Islam: Individualisation of Religious Conscience, Secularisation of the State”
Moderator: Hasan ABU NIMAH
Director
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies
Amman

“Islam and the modern World: Relationships, Challenges & Responses”
Sohail NAKHOODA
Editor-in-Chief
Islamica Magazine
Amman

“Quranic Reading”
Rahma BEN ABDALLAH
Researcher
Tunis 

“The Quran: A source of legislation and/or history”
Hayet AMAMOU
Assistant Professor
University of La Manouba
Tunis

Discussion

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.00

Fifth Working Session

“The Asiatic Religions confronted with the modern World”
Moderator: Sami GAMMOH
Chairman Jordan International Insurance
Amman

“Religious Multiplicity and Religious Pluralism in South Asia in the 17th Century”
Moez KHALFAOUI
Religious Science
Erfurt University
Berlin

“The Modern Hinduism and the Paradigm of Reform”
Saverio MARCHIGNOLI
Bologna

“Spirit of Reform and Confucianism”
Amina CRISMA
Professor
University of Padova
Bologna

Discussion

16.00 – 16.15

Coffee break

16.15 – 17.30

Round Table and formal Closing Session

“Can We Elaborate a General Definition of Religious Reform?”
HRH Prince El Hassan BIN TALAL
Chairman
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies
Amman

19:30

Dinner

Wednesday,       
31 January 2007:

Departure