ASF Events – Don’t Miss The Morocco Conference – 18 y 19 JUN 2019, New York, United States

The American Sephardi Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience and Association Mimouna Present:
Uncommon Commonalities: Jews and Muslims of Morocco

Uncommon Commonalities, a three-day scholarly and cultural conference, is dedicated to exploring the uncommon commonalities shared by Moroccan Jews and Muslims. The Morocco Conference is bringing together 40 of the world’s leading academics and artists to explore the historical, spiritual, and cultural expressions of Morocco’s exceptional culture of coexistence. Scholars, dignitaries, and communal leaders will convene to share research, knowledge, and experiences to foster enhanced understanding and engagement with Morocco’s tradition of tolerance and interconnectedness as a model for other Muslim nations and, moreover, the entire world.

International Academic Conference
@The Center for Jewish History

Tuesday 18 June, 9:00AM-6:00PM
Keynote Address:  “The Multidemnsionality of the Relations Between Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Ambivalence, Cooperation, and Empathy” ~ Dr. Yosef Chetrit

Wednesday, 19 June, 9:00AM-6:00PM
Keynote Address: “The Jews of Morocco: A Historical Retrospective” ~ Dr. Moahmmed Kenbib 

The Morocco Conference features panels and presentations by 40 academics and artists from Morocco, Israel, France, United Kingdom, Portugal, and the US who are delivering scholarly and cultural presentations on the historical, anthropological, sociological, theological, and aesthetic expressions of Morocco’s culture of coexistence. 

RESERVE A CONFERENCE BADGE – $250 (General); $175 (Educator and Student)
RESERVE A ONE (18 OR 19 JUNE) DAY CONFERENCE BADGE – $100; $80 (Educator or Student)
RESERVE A HALF-DAY CONFERENCE PASS – $50

Closing Ceremony
Wednesday, 19 June, 7:00PM
@The Center for Jewish History

Israeli-born and Brooklyn-based, Omer Avital is internationally acclaimed as a virtuoso bassist and as a transformational composer and musical thinker. Avital is a master of the various rhythmic and harmonic vocabularies that underpin 20th and 21st century hardcore jazz expression, which he approaches with a polyphonic attitude and articulates with prodigious technique. He is an avatar of musical multilingualism, as fluent spinning out an erudite walking bassline as creating gorgeous melodies from percolating North African grooves, elemental vamps and Middle Eastern scales.

RSVP – Complimentary

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Questions: info@americansephardi.org or (212) 548.4486