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Program At-A-Glance

Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gülen Movement in Thought and Practice
November 12-13, 2005
Herring Hall, Robert R. (HE) 100
Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005

	November 12 Saturday	November 13 Sunday
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Session I	Session IV
10:45 a.m. -11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Session II	Session V
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.	Lunch	Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Session III	Session VI
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Tour	Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.		Session VII
5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.		Session VIII
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.	Dinner	Reception

Program Details

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005
6:30 - 9:00 pm	Reception - hotel

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2005
	Session I - Dialogue and the Gülen Movement Session Chair: Dale F. Eickelman
9:00	Opening Remarks
9:10 - 10:40	Fethullah Gülen’s contribution to Muslim-Christian dialogue in the context of Abrahamic cooperation, P. Valkenberg.
	Defending religious diversity and tolerance in America today: Lessons from Fethullah Gülen, L. Ashton.
	Dialogue: Greek foundations and the thought of Fethullah Gülen and Jürgen Habermas, D. C. De Bolt.
	Tolerance and dialogue in Fethullah Gülen’s writings, Y. Yildirim & M. Maxwell.
	General Discussion Discussant: Y. A. Aslandogan
10:40 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
	Session II - Education Session Chair: Y. Alp Aslandogan
11:00 - 12:30	Discursive and organizational strategies of the Gülen movement, B. Agai.
	An examination of Fethullah Gülen’s philosophy of education and the educational activities of the movement, R. Woodhall.
	The philosophy of Islamic education: Classical views and Fethullah Gülen’s perspectives, A. Afsaruddin.
	Fethullah Gülen: A vision of transcendent education, C. Nelson.
	General Discussion Discussant: D. F. Eickelman
12:45 - 1:45	LUNCH
	Session III - Public Space and Globalization Session Chair: Bekim Agai
2:00 - 3:30	Mobilization and countermobilization: The Gülen movement in Turkey, M. Cetin.
	A Movement of Volunteers , S. A. Tekalan.
	The women’s side of the coin: The Gülen movement in America, a new Turkish-American community taking root, M. Curtis.
	Religions, globalization and dialogue in the 21st century. Fethullah Gülen and Arnold J. Toynbee, P. Weller.
	General Discussion Discussant: E. Shehabuddin
3:45 - 6:00	TOUR
6:30 - 9:00	DINNER

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2005
	Session IV - Social Contexts of Sufism Session Chair: Muhammed Cetin
9:00 - 10:30	The impact of sufism in Fethullah Gülen’s thought and action, M. E. Kilic.
	Fethullah Gülen: An intellectual and religious profile, A. Bulac.
	Fethullah Gülen’s neo-sufism: An inventional analysis, M. J. Fontenot.
	Gülen and sufism: A contemporary manifestation of sufism, H. C. Kim.
	General Discussion Discussant: T. Michel
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
	Session V - Islam and Democracy Session Chair: Dogan Koc
11:00 - 12:30	From Whitman to Gülen: Visions of the future of evolving democracy, L. Sykiainen & Y. A. Aslandogan.
	Gülen and Al-Ghazzali on Tolerance, J. B. Schlubach.
	Progressive Islamic thought, civil society and the Gülen movement in the national context: Parallels with Indonesia, G. Barton.
	An absent influence? The Gülen movement in Turkish-Islam and its influence on global education and inter-religious dialogue, I. G. Williams.
	General Discussion Discussant: B. Agai
12:45 - 1:45	LUNCH
	Session VI - Media, Dialogue, and Community Session Chair: Yetkin Yildirim
2:00 - 3:30	Understandings of “community” within the Gülen movement, M. Hermansen.
	New media figure and instruments of religious authority in Turkey, Y. Aktay.
	Gülen and Sufism, M. Gokcek.
	Interfaith dialogue in the context of new theological language and Fethullah Gülen, A. Aslan.
	General Discussion Discussant: L. Mitchell
3:30 - 4:00	COFFEE BREAK
	Session VII - Religion and Public Life in Turkey (Round table) Session Chair:
4:00 - 5:15	Statement-IID
	Turkish Guest-1
	Turkish Guest-2
	Turkish Guest-3
	Turkish Guest-4
	Session VIII - Conference Closing Remarks Session Chair: Muhammed Cetin
5:15 - 5:45	Conference Summary on what is learned from the Gülen movement, D. F. Eickelman
5:15 - 5:45	Closing statements