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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Conference: ISLAM IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL
CHALLENGES;<BR>Alternative Perspectives of the Gulen Movement<BR>Venue:
Georgetown University<BR>Date: 14-15 November 2008<BR><BR>Program<BR><BR>Friday
November 14<BR><BR>Plenary Session: Copley Formal Lounge<BR>09:00 - 09:05 AM:
Opening Remarks by Dr. Ali Yurtsever, President,<BR>Rumi Forum & Coordinator
of the Conference<BR>09:05 - 09:30 AM: Welcoming Remarks by Dr. John Esposito,
Chair, Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at
Georgetown University<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4><BR>Session I : 09:30
- 11:00 AM (November 14th)<BR><BR>I - Plenary Session: CopleyFormal
Lounge<BR>Topic: Gulen's Philosophy in Comparative Perspective<BR>Chair: Sally
Ann Baynard, Georgetown University, Washington DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- John C.
Haughey, Georgetown University, DC: The Driver in the Mind of Fethullah
Gulen<BR>- Paul Weller, University of Derby, UK: Religious Freedom in the
Baptist Vision and in Fethullah Gülen: Resources for Muslims and
Christians.<BR>- Mahmud Maşaeli, Saint Paul University, Canada: The Importance
of Dialogue in a Rooted Conception of Cosmopolitanism Fethullah Gülen, Mohammad
Modjtaid Shabestary and Charles Taylor<BR><BR>Session II : 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
(November 14th)<BR><BR>II A - Panel A: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic:
Reinterpreting the Islamic Tradition<BR>Chair: Katherine Marshall, Georgetown
University, Washington DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- Philipp Bruckmayr, University of
Vienna, Austria: Fethullah Gülen and Islamic Literary Tradition<BR>- Ismail
Acar, Harvard University, MA: A Classic Scholar with a Modern Outlook: Fethullah
Gülen and His Legal Thoughts<BR>- Erkan Togoslu, EHESS, France: Hizmet: From
futuwwa tradition to the Emergence of Movement in Public Space<BR><BR>II B -
Panel B: Philodemic Room<BR>Topic: Approaching Social Movement<BR>Chair: George
M. Atkinson, Southern Methodist University, Texas<BR>Participants:<BR>- Andrew
Achenbaum, University of Houston, TX: Serendipitous Consequences of the
Turko-Islamic Gulen Movement<BR>- Mustafa Gürbüz, University of Connecticut, CT:
>From Gandhi to Gulen: The Habitus of Non-Agressive Action<BR>- Ian Williams,
Birmingham City University, UK: "The Significance of the Fethullah Gulen
Movement as a Global Educational and Inter-Religious Model of Social and
Religious Change - A UK Perspective"<BR><BR>Session III : 02:15 - 03:45 PM
(November 14th)<BR><BR>III A - Panel A: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic: Contextual
Analysis of the Rise of the Movement<BR>Chair: Sidney Griffith, Catholic
University of America, Washington DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- Mustafa Akyol,
Turkish Daily News, Turkiye: The Context of the Gulen Movement: The Exceptional
Story of Turkish Islam<BR>- Loye Ashton, Tougaloo College, TX: The Gülen
Movement: A Contextual Analysis of Its Supporters and Critics<BR>- Muhammed
Çetin, Institute of Interfaith Dialogue, TX: Reductionist Approaches to the Rise
and Aims of the Gülen Movement<BR><BR>III B - Panel B: Philodemic Room<BR>Topic:
Dialogue: The Art of Living Together<BR>Chair: Talip Kucukcan, Marmara
University, Turkiye<BR>Participants:<BR>- Greg Barton, Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia: Islam and Dialogue: The Gülen Movement in Australia and
the Development of A Different Kind of Young Turk<BR>- Gary D. Bouma, Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia: Increases in Religious Diversity, the
Revitalisation of Religion and the Gulen Movement<BR>- Aaron Tyler, St. Mary's
University, TX: Tolerance as a Source of Peace: Gulen and the Islamic
Conceptualization of Tolerance<BR><BR>Session IV : 04:00 - 05:50 PM (November
14th)<BR><BR>IV A - Panel A: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic: The Impact of the
Gulen Movement: I<BR>Chair: Mohammed Abu Nimer, American University & USIP,
Washington DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- Nader Hashemi, University of Denver, CO: How
Islam is Promoting Liberal Democracy in Turkey: Reflections on the Fethullah
Gulen Movement<BR>- Radwan Ziadeh, Harvard University, MA: The Impact of
Fethullah Gülen on the Islamic thought in the Arab world<BR>- Ihsan Yilmaz,
Fatih University, Turkiye: Beyond Post-Islamism: A Critical Analysis of the
Turkish Islamism's Transformation toward Fethullah Gülen's Stateless
Cosmopolitan Islam<BR><BR>IV B - Panel B: Philodemic Room<BR>Topic: Solutions to
Violence: Dialogue and Beyond<BR>Chair: Victoria Clement, Western Carolina
University, NC<BR>Participants:<BR>- Jon Pahl, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia,
PA: Dying for a Cause: Youth, Violence and the Gulen Movement--Beyond Tolerance
and Dialogue<BR>- Zeynep Sahin, USC, CA: Interfaith Dialogue Organizations as
Actors of Peace Building<BR>- Steve Wright, SAGE-Leeds Metropolitan University,
UK: Ending Terror - By Words Alone?<BR><BR>Saturday, November 15<BR>Session V :
09:00 - 10:30 AM<BR>V - Plenary Session: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic:
Spirituality and Sufism<BR>Chair: Daniel Madigan, Georgetown University,
Washington DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- John Borelli, Georgetown University, DC:
Interreligious Dialogue as A Spiritual Practice<BR>- Heon Choul Kim, Temple
University, PA: Gülen's Dialogic Sufism: A Constructional and Constructive
Factor of Dialogue<BR>- Lynn Mitchell, University of Houston, TX: M. Fethullah
Gulen: A Preacher of Piety and Integrity of Action<BR><BR>Session VI : 10:45 AM
- 12:30 PM (November 15th )<BR><BR>VI A - Panel A: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic:
Perspectives on Women's Rights<BR>Chair: Sylvia Onder, Georgetown University,
Washington DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- Patrick Hallzon, Stockholm University ,
Sweden: Gulen Movement: Gender and Practice<BR>- Gulsum Gurbuz Kucuksari,
Hartford Seminary, CT: Unresolved Concerns of Women in Modern Age: How Does the
Gulen Movement Contribute to the Women Question?<BR>- Margaret J Rausch,
University of Kansas, KS: Progress Through Piety: Sohbetler (Spiritual
Gatherings) of the Women Participants of the Gulen Movement<BR>- M. Sait Yavuz,
University of Maryland College Park, MD: Women in Islam: Muslim Perspectives and
Fethullah Gulen<BR><BR>VI B - Panel B: Philodemic Room<BR>Topic: Peace Building
through Education<BR>Chair: Janaan Hashim, Amal Law Group,
Illinois<BR>Participants:<BR>- Harun Akyol, University of Essex, UK: An
Alternative Approach to Preventing Ethnic Conflict: The Role of the Gulen's
Schools in Strengthening the Delicate Relations Between Turkey and the Iraqi
Kurds with Particular Reference to the "Kirkuk Crisis"<BR>- Mehmet Kalyoncu,
Independent Analyst, NY: Gulen Schools in East Africa: "The Secular Alternative
in Kenya, and a Pragmatist Approach to Development in Uganda"<BR>- Phillis
Robinson, University of Houston Clea Lake, TX: Education: Sustainable Economy
for Global Peace<BR><BR>Session VII : 01:30 - 03:00 PM (November 15th
)<BR><BR>VII A - Panel A: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic: Combatting a Global
Problem: Poverty<BR>Chair: John Borelli, Georgetown University, Washington
DC<BR>Participants:<BR>- Ozguc Orhan, Fatih University, Turkiye: Islamic Himma
and Christian Charity<BR>- Doğan Koç, University of Texas, Dallas, TX: Charity
Activities of the Gulen Movement: "KImse Yok mu?' Foundation<BR>- Thomas Michel,
Georgetown University, DC: Kimse Yok mu: the Gülen Community's Fight Against
Poverty<BR><BR>VII B - Panel B: Philodemic Room<BR>Topic: The Impact of the
Gulen Movement: II<BR>Chair: Mohamed Nimer, American University, Washington
DC<BR>Participants:<BR>Karen Fontenot, Michael Fontenot,Southeastern Louisiana
University, Louisiana: Fethullah Gulen as A Transformational Leader: Exemplar
for A New Generation- Martha Ann Kirk, University of Incarnate Word, San
Antonio, TX: Seeds of Peace: Solidarity, Aid, and Education Shared by the Gülen
Movement in Eastern Turkey<BR><BR>Session VIII : 03:15 - 04:45 PM (November 15th
)<BR><BR>VIII - Plenary Session: CopleyFormal Lounge Topic: Globalization:
Challenges and Opportunities<BR>Chair: Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Loyola College,
Maryland<BR>Participants:<BR>- Simon Robinson, Leeds Metropolitan University,
UK: Fethullah Gülen and Global Responsibility<BR>- Karina Korostelina, George
Mason University, VA: Redefining "Us" and "Them": Gulen's approach to
transformation of perceptions between Muslims and non-Muslims<BR>- Jerome
Maryon,NY: Globalization's Challenge to Justice and Gulen's Answer: Two
Wings<BR><BR>Session IX : 05:00 - 05.30 PM (November 15th )<BR>VIII - Plenary
Session: CopleyFormal Lounge<BR>Topic: Closing Remarks, Evaluation of the
Conference<BR>Chair: Thomas Michel<BR>Participants: All Audience
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