ISLAMISM 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE October 24 26, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM INCLUDING INVITED SPEAKER PANELS Conference Theme: Islamism in the Post Arab Spring World Conference Co chairs: Dr. Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu (Istanbul University) & Dr. Halil Ibrahim Yenigun (Istanbul Commerce University) Conference Organization Committee: Berrin Naz Özsiper (Koç University), Büşra Kırkpınar (Istanbul Technical University), Selma Köroğlu (Istanbul University), Vahdet İşsevenler (Istanbul University), Yakup Kıyanç (Boğaziçi University) Conference Venue: Siyasal Vakfı (Istanbul University Political Science Faculty Alumni Association) Şehzade Mehmed and Sibyan Mektebi Hall MAZLUMDER (Association for Human Rights and Solidarity with the Oppressed) Conference Hall Addresses: Kalenderhane Mah. Dede Efendi Cad. No: 8 34134 Vezneciler Fatih, İstanbul (Siyasal Vakfı) Molla Hüsrev Mah. Cemal Yener Tosyalı Cad. No:97 Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey (MAZLUMDER) October 24, Friday CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 08:30 9:30 Registration & Check In (Imarethane Premise Entrance) 09:30 9:50 Welcoming and Introductory Remarks Speaker: Halil Ibrahim Yenigün (Istanbul Think House [IDE] & Istanbul Commerce University) 10.00 12.00 PANEL SESSION I A End or Revival of Islamism? Chair & Disc: Hasan Basri Yalçın (Istanbul Commerce University) The Militant Autumn of the Arab Spring: The End of Islamism in Egypt or the Epoch of a New Generation? Abdulrahman Hossam (Istanbul Şehir University) Islamism and the Secularization Thesis Nassef Manabilang Adiong (Co IRIS [International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort]) 1
Islamism: From Self Formation to Self Determination Baballah Mahmoud (University of Abdelmalek Saadi) 10:00 12:00 PANEL SESSION I B (TURKISH) Yeni İslâmcılıklar Chair & Disc: Necmettin Doğan (Istanbul Commerce University) İslâmcılığın Dönüşümü ve Yeni Muhalif İslâmcılıklar Yusuf Ekinci (Yıldırım Beyazıt University) İslâmcılığın Bittiği Söylemi Üzerine Bir Tartışma Ali Kaya (Erciyes University) Rakip İslâmcılıklar: Yeni İslâmcılık versus Anti Kapitalist İslâmcılık İlknur Karanfil (Boğaziçi University) İslâmcılığın Ölümü, İslâmcılığın Dirimi Beytullah Emrah Önce (Özgür Yazarlar Birliği [Free Writers Union]) 12:00 14:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:00 16:00 PLENARY PANEL SESSION II (INVITED): Current Challenges for Islamism Worldwide Moderator: Halil Ibrahim Yenigün "Does Obama have a strategy for dealing with the Islamic State (IS)?" William Quandt (University of Virginia) Egypt's Muslim Brothers and Salafists: Islamist Insiders or New comers? Ebtisam Hussein (Cairo University) Guardianship, Equal Liberties, and Reform: A Liberal Criticism of Iran s Post Revolutionary Constitution" Meysam Badamchi (Istanbul Şehir University) The Role of the Local and the Urban in Shaping a Global Islamist Ideology: A UK Analysis Tahir Abbas (Fatih University) 16:00 16:30 COFFEE BREAK 16:30 18:30 PANEL SESSION III: SPECIAL DEBATE İslâmcılık ve Eleştirmenleri (Turkish) Panelists: TBA 2
October 25, Saturday 09:00 10:00 Registration & Check In (Sıbyan Mektebi Premise Lawn) 10:00 12:00 PANEL SESSION IV A: Islamism as a Foreign Policy Determinant MAZLUMDER Hall Chair & Disc: Bülent Aras (Sabancı University, Istanbul Policy Center & POMEAS Project) Islamism and Foreign Policy Challenges in Sudan Dario López Estévez ( King Juan Carlos University) Turkey s Foreign Policy of the AKP Government to Syria and the Reasons behind its Shifting Policy during Arab Spring Md. Thowhidul Islam (International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) Bangladesh Studies) The West and the Muslim World Peace and Conflict Denis Ljuljanović (Marmara University) 10:00 12:00 PANEL SESSION IV B (TURKISH): İslâmcılık, İktidar ve Demokrasi Chair & Disc: İsmail Yaylacı (Istanbul Şehir University) Ortadoğu da Ilımlı İslâm: Nahda Hareketinin İktidar Tecrübesi İsmail Hakkı Akkuş and Mustafa Gedikli (Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul University) Libya da İslâmcıların Hükümet ve İktidar Tecrübeleri Emrah Kekilli (Istanbul Bilgi University) İslâmî Anayasacılık ve Arap Devrimleri Gökhan Sümer (University of Essex) Saraçhane: İslâmcılığın Devlet Düğümü Elyesa Koytak (Istanbul Bilgi University) 12:00 13:30 LUNCH BREAK 13:30 15:30 PANEL SESSION V A (INVITED & TURKISH): Hayatın İçinde San at ve Müslüman Kadınlar Moderator: MAZLUMDER Hall Feyza Akınerdem (Open University) "Mimaride Kadın Muhayyilesi Neyi Tamamlar?" Cihan Aktaş (Writer & Architect) "Sinemada Müslüman Kadınların Hikâye Etme Biçimleri" Yıldız Ramazanoğlu (Writer) "Müslüman Kadının Müzisyenliği" Rümeysa Çamdereli (Musician) 3
13:30 15:30 PANEL SESSION V B: Islamists in Power Hamas Governance Crisis between Palestinian Division and Arab Spring Ibrahim Natil (Coventry and Westminster Universities) Tunisia: Islamists in the Media, Islamists and the Media Mourad Teyeb (Journalist, Maghreb Media Forum) A Power Analysis: Rise and Expansion of the AKP Power Mustafa Oğuzhan Çolak (Istanbul Şehir University) 15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 18:00 PANEL SESSION VI: Islamism, Discursive Challenges, and Social Change Globalizing from the Periphery: Radical Islamism as A Globalist Discourse Ian Josan (University Babes Bolyai of Cluj Napoca) The (Post ) Islamic Milieu in Lebanon Hezbollah and the Production of Social Change Fouad Gehad Marei (Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics) Islamist anti Apartheid Movements Yusuf Enes Sezgin (İstanbul Şehir University) 18:00 18:30 COFFEE BREAK 18:30 20:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS () Title: The Future of Islamism and the Demand for the Islamic State after the Arab Spring Muqtedar Khan (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware) 4
October 26, Sunday 09:00 10:00 Registration & Check In (Imarethane Premise Entrance) 10:00 12:00 PANEL SESSION VII A: Democracy and Islamist Moderation Moderation Among Salafists & Jihadists Kamran Bokhari (STRATFOR Global Intelligence & University of Westminster) Former Rebellion Movement in Power: A Challenge of Performance Proofing Surwandono Wakidi Surjono & Takdir Ali Mukti (University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta) The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Islamist Movement in Jordan Meltem Demircan Özütam (Yeditepe University) 10:00 12:00 PANEL SESSION VII B (TURKISH): İslâmcılık, Yerellik ve Evrensellik İslâmcılık Bağlamında Yerellik, Yerlilik ve Evrensellik Erdal Kurgan (Boğaziçi University) Arap Baharının Türkiye İslâmcılığına Etkisi ve İslâmcılığın Değişen Kodları Abdülkadir Yeler (Marmara University) Hukûku Hâkimiyet Milletindir: Mehmet Vehbi Efendi nin Tefsirinde İslâmî Siyaset İsmail Yurdakök (Independent scholar/freelance writer) İslâmcılığın Bireyler Arasındaki İlişkisi Yunus Arifoğlu 12:00 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 5
13:00 15:00 PANEL SESSION VIII (INVITED) Reimagining Islamism, Secularism, and Fanaticism Moderator: TBA Fundamentalism and Fanaticism: A Comparative Analysis Ahmad F. Yousif (International Institute of Wasatiyyah (IIW) ) Rethinking Social Theory on Islam and Religion: Muslimism in Turkey and New Religious Orthodoxies Neslihan Çevik (University of Virginia) Islamists and Secularists, A Room for Consensus Mohamed Moctar Shinqiti (Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Qatar) 15:00 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 15:30 17:30 PANEL SESSION IX: SPECIAL ROUNDTABLE (TURKISH): İslâmcılık ve Müslümancılık (To be Confirmed) 17:30 18:00 COFFEE BREAK 18:00 20:00 PANEL SESSION X: INVITED PANEL (TURKISH): İslâmcılık: Muhasebe ve İstikamet 6