{"id":7390,"date":"2008-11-17T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:23:12","slug":"turkic-american-peace-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/17\/turkic-american-peace-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkic-American Peace Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Azerbaijan Society of America (ASA)<\/span><\/strong>
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Azerbaijani-American Council (AAC)<\/span><\/strong>
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\n<\/span>The First Pax Turcica<\/em>
\nTurkic-American Peace Conference
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\nDedicated to the 91st anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR),<\/span>
the first secular democratic statehood in the Turkic and Muslim world<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/em>New York City, NY, USA<\/span>
<\/span><\/span>Saturday, May 16, 2009<\/span><\/span>
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Azerbaijan Society of America (ASA) and Azerbaijani-American Council (AAC) announce the First “Pax Turcica” Conference dedicated to the 91st anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), the first secular democratic establishment in Turkic and Muslim world, to be held on May 16, 2009 in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ASA and AAC welcome Azerbaijani, Turkish and other Turkic-American groups to join the initiative as co-organizers and participants. For further information, please, contact ASA or AAC.<\/p>\n

CONFERENCE PROGRAM<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The conference program will comprise of three panels with 15-minute presentations by students and scholars scheduled at each panel. The window for submission of presentations as well as the registration and venue information will be available in January 2009 through the website of Pax Turcica to be announced.<\/div>\n

Panel 1: Turkic Unity: Past, Present, Future
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Topics<\/strong><\/span>: <\/span>
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  • The role of history and literature in the development of identity in Turkic-speaking nations<\/li>\n
  • Founding ideology of ADR, the works of Turkic publicists of the early 20th century<\/li>\n
  • Current ideological trends and their impact in the development of Turkic-speaking diasporas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    Panel 2: Modernism: Democracy and Suffrage<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Parliament and universal suffrage in ADR<\/li>\n
    • Media and its contribution to modernism<\/li>\n
    • Democratic processes in Turkic-speaking nations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n


      Panel 3: Islam and Secular Statehood<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n


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      Topics<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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      • Impact of Islam in the formation of secular national statehood in ADR<\/li>\n
      • Historical and contemporary religious trends in Turkic-speaking countries<\/li>\n
      • Tolerance and interfaith dialogue in predominantly Muslim Turkic societies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n


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\u00a9 2008-2009 <\/span>Azerbaijan Society of America<\/span> & Azerbaijani-American Council<\/span>
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Azerbaijan Society of America (ASA) +1 212 459-4550 asa@azeris.org Azerbaijani-American Council (AAC) +1 949 275-7717 aac@azeris.com The First Pax Turcica Turkic-American Peace Conference Dedicated to the 91st anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR),the first secular democratic statehood in the Turkic and Muslim world New York City, NY, USASaturday, May 16, 2009 Azerbaijan Society of America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}