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Program At-A-Glance

Second International Conference on Islam in the Contemporary World:
The Fethullah Gulen Movement In Thought and Practice
March 4-5, 2006
McCord auditorium, Dallas Hall,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

	March 4 Saturday		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

Program Details

FRIDAY, March 3, 2006
6:30 - 9:00 pm	DINNER

SATURDAY, March 4, 2006
	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
	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
	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

SUNDAY, March 5, 2006
	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