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| Conference Overview |
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The Institute of Interfaith Dialog, Texas; the Graduate Program in Religious Studies, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University; and the Office of the Chaplain at Southern Methodist University are sponsoring a conference at on the activities of Fethullah Gülen and their contributions to interfaith dialogue, tolerance, and education.
The conference aims to explore the appeal, meaning, and impact of Fethullah Gülen and the Gülen movement on Turkish, regional, and - increasingly - global societies. |
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| Program At-A-Glance |
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March 4
Saturday |
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March 5
Sunday |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. |
Opening Remarks |
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Session IV |
| 9:10 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. |
Keynote Speech |
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
Session I |
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
Closing Remarks |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Session II |
12:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Tour |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. |
Session III |
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| Program Details |
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| FRIDAY, March 3, 2006 |
| 6:30
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DINNER |
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| SATURDAY, March 4,
2006 |
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Session I
Session Chair and Discussant: Y. A. Aslandogan |
| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 - 9:40 |
Keynote Speech: Dr. Lynn Mitchell |
| 9:45 - 11:45 |
Women and Their Rights:Fethullah Gülen's Gloss on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Eighteenth-Century "Embassy" to the Ottoman Empire, B. Andrea. |
| Leaving Footprints in Houston: Answers to Questions on Women and the Gülen Movement, A. J. Stephenson. |
| Democracy, Islam, and the Gülen Movement: A Critical Triangle, R. Shaykhutdinov. |
| Global Peaceful Social Innovation: The Case of Gulen Network, F. Karakas. |
| Q&A |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
LUNCH |
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Session II
Session Chair and Discussant: L. Ashton |
| 1:00 - 3:00 |
The Need for a Guide in the Changing Wolrd, T. A. Sasaki. |
| When Mevlana Comes About The Turkish Thinker's Paradigms and Russian Sociocultural Pecularities, V. I. Sheremet. |
| Problems of Democracy in the Dialogue between Western and Islamic legal Cultures: the Role of Fethullah Gulen's Efforts for Tolerance, L. Sykiainen |
| Reading the World in Fethullah Gulen's Educational Philosophy, M. Said. |
| Q&A |
| 3:00 -
3:15 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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Session III
Session Chair and Discussant: G. Blackwell-Eagleson |
| 3:15 - 5:15 |
"THE CRY OF THE NIGHTINGALE" Fethullah Gulen - A Modern-Day Rumi?, C. Eustis. |
| Fethullah Gulen's Methodology of Interpreting Quran, F. Tuncer. |
| Fethullah Gülen as a Servant Leader, G. Celik. |
| Pedagogical Model of Gulen and Modern Theories of Learning, Y. A. Aslandogan. |
| Q&A |
| 6:30 -
9:30 |
Reception - hotel |
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| SUNDAY, March 5,
2006 |
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Session IV
Session Chair and Discussant: J. Carroll |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Global Islam and the Secular Modern World: Transnational Muslim Social Movements and the Movement of Fethullah Gülen, A Comparative Approach, J. D. Hendrick. |
| Islam and Terror: From the Perspective of Fethullah GÜLEN, I. Albayrak. |
| Islam and the Muslims in the New Century, G. Ilhan. |
| Q&A |
| 10:30 -
10:45 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Closing Remarks: R. Hunt |
| 11:30 -
12:30 |
LUNCH |
| 12:45 - 5:00 |
TOUR |
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