Friday

19:30-19:45
Institute for Baha'i Studies
Robert Stockman

19:45-20:15
Translation of some of `Abdu'l-Baha's tablets in honor of Haj Mehdi Arjmand
Tandis Arjmand

20:15-20:30
Memorial Funds and Fostering Baha'i Scholarship
Iraj Ayman


Saturday

9:15-10:00
Model of Penology in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, The
John Hatcher

10:30-11:15
Choice Wine:
The Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Development of Baha'i Law
Anthony Lee     read online

11:15-12:00
Getting to Justice:
The Creation of Justice through the Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas
Holly Hanson

14:00-14:45
Kitab-i-Aqdas, The:
Questions of Structure and Style
Diana Malouf

14:45-15:30
Relationship of the Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas to the Laws of the Bayan of the Bab
Jeff Simmonds

16:00-16:45
Sacralizing the Secular:
The Proclamatory Aqdas as a Response to Modernity
Christopher Buck

19:30-21:30
Panel Discussion: Kitab-i-Aqdas:
Current Research and Future Directions
Jena Khadem and Moojan Momen, and Mr. Charles Nolley


Sunday

9:15-10:00
Relationship between Content and Context in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, The
Habib Riazati

10:00-10:45
Considerations Relating to the Inheritance Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Some
Sen McGlinn     read online

11:15-12:00
Obedience to Divine Law:
Evolution of the Individual's Perception
Azadeh Fares and Nabil Fares


papers offered but not presented

Redefining a Social Contract
Rama Ayman

Eschatology and Messianic Hope in Hinduism:
A Bahá'í Perspective
Ali K. Merchant