How to Make the Mediterranean Space a Community of Reason, Tolerance, Progress, and Prosperity?
Symposium at New York University, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 9:30 am — 8:00 pm The symposium will consist of two parts. The first part will be a screening of Jacob Bender’s documentary “Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours.” The second part of the symposium will bring together two panels of scholars and policy officials from Europe, the United States, the Middle East and North Africa to reflect on and draw lessons from the lives of Averroes and Maimonides and consider how, through education, civil society initiatives, and inter-governmental cooperation, to make the Mediterranean space a community of peace and prosperity for all its people. Speakers include: • Jacob Bender, Filmmaker, author of a documentary on Averroes and Maimonides • John Brademas, President Emeritus of New York University • Jacques Lezra, Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese, New York University • Jerónimo Páez–López , Former Dir
