{"id":9701,"date":"2009-03-02T09:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T06:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T08:33:46","slug":"conference-democracy-islam-and-secularism-turkey-in-comparative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/03\/02\/conference-democracy-islam-and-secularism-turkey-in-comparative\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy, Islam, and Secularism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey, as a Muslim-majority country, is the only member of NATO and on
\ncandidate member of the European Union. Assertive secularism, multiparty
\ndemocracy, and military interventions are other puzzling aspects of
\nTurkish politics. With its rising activism in the Middle East, Caucasus,
\nand Central Asia, Turkey has also become an influential actor in world
\npolitics. This conference aims to present an integrated picture of Turkey
\nby bringing together comparative perspectives on its past, present, and
\nfuture, and delving into such issues as the legacy of the Ottoman Empire,
\nsecularism, religion, democracy, civil-military relations, and the
\nEuropean Union membership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact: Ahmet Kuru
\nE-mail: ak2840@columbia.edu<\/p>\n

Date: March 6-7, 2009
\nTime: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
\nLocation: International Affairs Building 1501, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and
\nReligion; Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; and Middle
\nEast Institute of Columbia University; and Institute for Turkish Studies<\/p>\n

Friday, March 6<\/p>\n

9.00 – 9.30: Coffee and rolls
\n9.30 – 9.45: Welcome: Alfred Stepan
\n9.45 – 12.45: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
\nChair: Rashid Khalidi (invited)
\nDiscussant: Richard Bulliet
\nKaren Barkey, “Empire and Religious Diversity: The Ottoman Model in
\nContemporary Perspective”
\nS\u00fckr\u00fc Hanioglu, “The Historical Roots of Kemalism”
\nNur Yalman, “‘The Three Ways of Politics’ Revisited: Whither the People of
\nthe ‘Sublime State’?”
\n12.45 – 2.30: Lunch
\n2.30 – 5.30: Religion, Religious Parties, and Democracy
\nChair: David Cuthell
\nDiscussant: Mirjam Kunkler
\nAlfred Stepan, “Variations of La\u00efcit\u00e9: Comparing Turkey, France, and Senegal”
\nStathis Kalyvas, “Does Christian Democratic Experience Travel in the
\nnon-Christian World?”
\n5.30: Reception<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 7<\/p>\n

9.00 – 9.30: Coffee and rolls
\n9.30 – 12.30: The AKP Government and the Military
\nChair and discussant: Alfred Stepan
\n\u00dcmit Cizre, “Society as the Battleground for Hegemony: Secular Military
\nand the AKP”
\nAhmet Kuru, “Politicized Military and the Consolidation of Democracy in
\nTurkey”
\n12.30 – 2.30: Lunch
\n2.30 – 5.30: Politics of the Future: European Union, Constitution, and
\nDemocratization
\nChair and discussant: Joan Scott
\nJoost Lagendijk, “Turkey’s Membership to the European Union: Perceptions
\nand Processes”
\nAndrew Arato, “Legality and Legitimacy in the Making of a New Turkish
\nConstitution”
\nErgun \u00d6zbudun, “Turkish Democracy in Constitutional Crisis”<\/p>\n

Short Bios<\/p>\n

Andrew Arato is Dorothy Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory
\nat the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Civil Society,
\nConstitution, and Legitimacy and Constitution Making under Occupation: The
\nPolitics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq, and co-author of Civil Society and
\nPolitical Theory.<\/p>\n

Karen Barkey is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She is the
\nauthor of Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective
\nand co-editor of After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building,
\nthe Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires.<\/p>\n

Richard Bulliet is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the
\nauthor of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, the editor The
\nColumbia History of the Twentieth Century, and the co-editor of The
\nEncyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u00dcmit Cizre is Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University,
\nTurkey. She is the author of The Politics of the Powerful (in Turkish) and
\nthe editor of Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the
\nJustice and Development Party and Almanac Turkey 2005: Security Sector and
\nDemocratic Oversight.<\/p>\n

David Cuthell is the Executive Director of the Institute of Turkish
\nStudies in Washington D.C. He also teaches Turkish politics as Visiting
\nAdjunct Professor at Columbia University and Georgetown University.<\/p>\n

Nil\u00fcfer G\u00f6le is Professor of Sociology at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en
\nSciences Sociales, France. She is the author of The Forbidden Modern:
\nCivilization and Veiling and Interpenetrations: Islam and Europe (in
\nFrench).<\/p>\n

S\u00fckr\u00fc Hanioglu is Professor and the Chair of Near Eastern Studies at
\nPrinceton University. He is the author of Brief History of the Late
\nOttoman Empire, Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908,
\nand Young Turks in Opposition.<\/p>\n

Stathis Kalyvas is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and
\nDirector of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale
\nUniversity. He is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War and The
\nRise of Christian Democracy in Europe.<\/p>\n

Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia
\nUniversity. He is the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the
\nPalestinian Struggle for Statehood and Resurrecting Empire: Western
\nFootprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Mirjam K\u00fcnkler is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton
\nUniversity. She is the co-editor of Comparative Study of the Role of
\nReligious Institutions in Democratic Transition and Consolidation
\nProcesses (in German)<\/p>\n

Ahmet Kuru is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of
\nDemocracy, Toleration, and Religion at Columbia University and Assistant
\nProfessor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He is the
\nauthor of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United
\nStates, France, and Turkey.<\/p>\n

Joost Lagendijk is a Dutch politician from Green Left. He is a Member of
\nthe European Parliament and its Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is also
\nthe Chairman of the Delegation to the European Union – Turkey Joint
\nParliamentary Committee.<\/p>\n

Ergun \u00d6zbudun is Professor of Law at Bilkent University, Turkey. He is the
\nauthor of Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic
\nConsolidation and the co-editor of Atat\u00fcrk: Founder of a Modern State. He
\nrecently chaired the academic committee to draft a new constitution for
\nTurkey.<\/p>\n

Joan Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science
\nin the Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of Only Paradoxes
\nto Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, Parit\u00e9: Sexual Equality
\nand the Crisis of French Universalism, and The Politics of the Veil.<\/p>\n

Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government, director of Center
\nfor the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, and co-director of
\nthe Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia
\nUniversity. He is the author of Arguing Comparative Politics and the
\nco-author of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation.<\/p>\n

Nur Yalman is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the
\nauthor of Under the Bo Tree and “Some Observations on Secularism in Islam:
\nThe Cultural Revolution in Turkey,” Daedalus, and co-author of A Passage
\nto Peace: Global Solutions from East and West.<\/p>\n

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