Program
All the details of the five days!!!!
ISTANBUL SEMINARS 2008
Monday June 2 – Friday June 6, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Registration
Seminars opening
2.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Official Greetings
Aydin Uğur, President of Istanbul Bilgi University
G. H. Thyssen Bornemisza, President of Reset-Dialogues
3.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. An introduction to the proceedings by Giancarlo Bosetti
3.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m Lectures 1 and 2
Seyla Benhabib The Return of Political Theology under Conditions of Globalization
Abdou Filali-Ansary Playing Politics on the Field of Religion
Chair: Ferda Keskin
6.00 p.m. Presentation of cultural journals in Europe: «Reset» and «Varlik»
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
9.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. Panel 1
Alfred Stepan: The Multiple Secularisms of Modern Democracies
Alessandro Ferrara: Varieties of Pluralism
Chair: Arus Yumul
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Panel 2
David Rasmussen: Islam and Democracy
Benjamin Barber: Can Islam accommodate Democracy, can Democracy accommodate Islam?
Chair: Murat Borovalı
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Lecture 3
Jürgen Habermas: What Do We Mean by ‘Post-secular’ Society?
4.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Coffee Break
4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Roundtable 1
Islam in Europe: Immigration, Integration & Democracy
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti
Participants: Giuliano Amato, Murat Belge, Ian Buruma, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Jürgen Habermas
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Roundtable 2
The Political Situation in Turkey
Chair: Ferda Keskin
Participants: Murat Belge, Emrah Efe Cakmak, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Fuat Keyman, Etyen Mahçupyan, Soli Özel
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Panel 3
Nilüfer Göle: How the Encounter with Islam is Shaping and Transforming
Europe itself
Abdelmajid Charfi: Islam before the Challenge of “Mondialization”
Chair: Marina Calloni
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Roundtable 3
Women in Turkey: Cosmopolitan Aspirations and Religious Identities
Chair: Ferhat Kentel
Participants: Yeşim Arat, Ayşen Candaş Bilgen, Nil Mutluer
Thursday, June 5, 2008
10.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. Panel 4
Ramin Jahanbegloo: Is a Muslim Gandhi Possible?
Ahmad Moussalli: Moderate and Radical Islamist Models of Rights, Pluralism,
and Democracy
Chair: Sebastiano Maffettone
12.00 p.m. – 12.15 p.m. Coffee Break
12.15 p.m. – 13.45 p.m. Panel 5
Maeve Cooke: Religion in the Democratic Public Sphere: Does Truth Matter?
Drucilla Cornell: Variegated Visions of Humanity
Chair: Fuat Keyman
1.45 p.m. – 2.45 p.m. Lunch break
3.15 p.m. Campus Change by Shuttle Bus leaving from Santralistanbul Parking
4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Roundtable 4
Empire, Globalization, and Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Seyla Benhabib
Michael Walzer in video connection: Will the Change in the White House improve International Relations?
Participants: Benjamin Barber, Ian Buruma, Hassan Hanafi, Avishai Margalit (in video connection), Otto Schily, Bulent Somay
Friday, June 6 2008
9.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. Lecture 4
Hassan Hanafi: Constructive Engagement in Dialogue of Civilizations
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Coffee Break
11.30 a.m – 1.00 p.m. Panel 6
Andrew Arato: Constituent Power and Authority: Three Stages of Constitution Making in Turkey 1982-2008
Jean L. Cohen: Rethinking Rights, Democracy and Sovereingty
Chair: Maria Pia Lara
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Panel 7
Andrew March: Theorizing and Theologizing Moral Obligation to Non-Muslims
Carlos Thiebaut: Peculiarity of Laicité in the Catholic South of Europe
Chair: Davide Tacchini
4.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Coffee Break
4.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Panel 8
Modjtaba Sadria: Dialogue: any ethical requirement?
Massimo Rosati: Pluralism without Secularization. New Roads to Religious Tolerance
Chair: Emrah Efe Cakmak
6.00 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Closing Greetings
