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Week of 24 October 1997 |
Vol. I, No. 9 |
Feature Article
Millennium (conference) comes to BU
The topic of an international gathering to take place on campus will be nothing if not timely. The conference on "The Apocalyptic Other: Millennial Views of Unbelievers among Christian, Jews, and Moslems" will meet from Sunday, November 2, through Tuesday, November 4, to discuss the im-plications of the turn of the year 2000.
The first two days will feature 20 distinguished speakers on subjects ranging from "Apocalyptic Time in Modern Arabic Literature" and "Henry Morris and Charles Darwin as Rival Apocalypticists" to "Orientalism and Protestant Eschatology" and "Mormons, Jews, and Gentiles." On the final day, panel discussions will consider "Jerusalem and the Year 2000," "The World and the Year 2000," "The United States and the Year 2000," and "A Paranoid Apocalypse: U.S. Conspiracy Theories and the Year 2000." The panelists will include Marty Peretz of The New Republic, Gershom Gorenberg of the Jerusalem Report, Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Quarterly, and other distinguished figures.
The conference is a presentation of the independent Center for Millennial Studies, directed by Richard Landes, CAS associate professor of history. All events will take place at the GSU's Terrace Lounge. For registration fees or other information, call 353-9170.