Thursday

9:15-10:00
Ethics Based on Science Alone?
Ian Kluge

11:15-12:00
Exploring and Comparing the Concept of Value:
Economic, Social and Spiritual Viewpoints
Farhad Sabetan

15:00-16:00
Understanding Reality:
Bahá'u'lláh’s “Four States” of Man, Seen as Tetrarchic Structure - A New Concept of Philosophy and Theology
Wolfgang Klebel

17:00-18:00
Life Lessons from `Abdu'l-Bahá:
Vision of a Bahá'í Community
Faris Badii

20:15-21:00
Unity and Universality of Education:
Guidelines Given in the Talks of `Abdu’l-Bahá
Iraj Ayman


Friday

9:15-10:00
Role of Principles in the Bahá'í Faith:
Principles and Fashion
Farjam Majd

11:15-12:00
`Abdu'l-Bahá's First Public Talk in America:
Church of Ascension, New York
Faris Badii

15:00-16:00
The Dao of Bahá:
Laozi and the Bahá'í Faith
Roland Faber

17:00-18:00
Reason and the Bahá’í Writings
Ian Kluge

21:30-22:30
Abdu’l-Bahá's Visit to North America:
An Illustrated Story
Hussain Ahdieh


Saturday

9:15-10:00
The Bab’s Sahifah-yi ‘adliyyah in Historical Context
Sholeh A. Quinn

10:15-11:00
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Mina Yazdani

11:15-12:00
Ridwan Renewed:
The Semitic-Abrahamic religions and Babi-Baha’i concepts of Ridvan
Stephen Lambden

15:00-15:45
The Organic Function of Prophecy in Baha'i Context:
An essay in memoriam of the hundredth anniversary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s journey to America with excerpts from Some Answered Questions and other religious scriptures
James B. Thomas

17:00-18:00
Women's poetry in early Qajar Iran:
Some context to Táhirih's poetry
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

21:00-22:00
Concept of Unity in Bahá’í Writings
Habib Riazati


Sunday

9:00-10:00
Shi`i and Babi-Baha’i Imamology:
Some introductory Notes on the Twelver Imams and traditions attributed to them in Shi`i and Babi-Baha’i scriptural sources
Stephen Lambden

10:30-11:30
The Synopsis of the Shared Concepts and Themes in the Persian Bayán and the Kitáb-i-Iqán
Habib Riazati