Thursday, January 29, 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

Welcome Address
Daniel S. Papp, President, Kennesaw State University

Message from Istanbul Center
Tarik Celik, Executive Director

Message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
To be delivered by Thomas Uthup, Research Manager, UN Alliance of Civilizations

Greetings from UN Alliance of Civilizations High Representative President Jorge Sampaio
To be delivered by Thomas Uthup, Research Manager, UN Alliance of Civilizations

Message from U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson
To be delivered by Barry Morris, Director of Cabinet Strategic Projects, KSU

Video Address from Turkey
Honorable Mehmet Aydin, State Minister and Alliance of Civilizations Co-Chair

Plenary Address
Honorable Suat Kiniklioglu, Member of Turkish Grand National Assembly

Presenters:

“Sharing More Than Just the Prophet: Changing Turkish Policy Towards Muslim Countries”
 Pinar K. Tremblay, CLA

“Mapping the Boundaries of International Society in the Nineteenth Century: Expansion or Stratification?”
Edward Keene, Georgia Institute of Technology

"International Relations Theory and the Challenges of the Civilizational Paradigm"
Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University

“The Progressive Perception of Islam in Turkey: A Hermeneutical Approach to Alliance of Civilizations”
Alparslan Acikgenc, Fatih University

Presenters:

“The Philosophy of the Turkish Muslim immigration to the west: From dialogue to alliance of civilizations”
Abdelmadjid Amrani, Batna University, Algeria

“The Turkish linkage between Europe and the rest of the world: theorizing transit migration”
Juliette Tolay, University of Delaware

“Key Dynamics of Assimilation among First Generation Turkish Immigrants Residing in Romania”
Hasan Aydin, University of Nevada

The Alliance of Civilizations: Theoretical Framwork 2
Chair & Discussant: Akanmu Adebayo, Kennesaw State University

Presenters:

“Turkey’s New Activism in the Middle East: Neo-Ottomanism and the Kurdish challenge”
Omer Taspinar, US National War College and Brookings Institution

“Alliance of Civilizations as the New Turkish Foreign Policy Doctrine”
Hasan Kosebalaban, Lake Forest College

“Bargaining Identities: Explaining Turkey’s Foreign Policy Discourse of ‘Alliance of Civilizations’”
Ramazan Kilinc, Michigan State University

Presenters:

“The Headscarf Ban and its Effects on Women/s Subjectivity”
Zeynep Akbulut Kuru, University of Washington

“Turkish Women: In the Past, Present and the Future”
Gul Celkan, Eastern Mediterranean University

“Headscarf Ban and the Alliance of Civilization”
Hassina Hemamid, Batna University, Algeria

Presenters:

“From the Alliance of Economies to the Alliance of Civilizations: Turkey's Importance and Contribution”
Murat Doral, Kennesaw State University

“Turkey as a catalyst for the Alliance of Civilizations”
Umut Uzer, Harvard University

“Global Response to Terrorism & Crises: Alliance of Civilizations”
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida, Vener Garayev, University of Central Florida, & Tolga Arslan, University of Georgia,

Presenters:

“Religious Education and the Secular State: The Turkish Experience”
Ahmet Kuru, Columbia University

"Educating Emotional Intelligence: A Bridge Between Mosque and State "
Alan Godlas, University of Georgia

“Cross-cultural Contributions: Turkish Educational Networks in Central Asia”
Victoria Clement

Presenters:

“The missed dialogues of the Euro-Turkish relationships”
Juliette Tolay, University of Deleware

“The Turkish Thesis: Dialogue among Civilizations and “Linguistic-Operational Corridors”
Gokhan Bacik, Fatih University

“Through an Epic Journey East Meets West: Homage to Istanbul’s Multinational History”
Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University

Presenters:

“Comments on the Turkish Experience with EU Accession Negotiations and Prospects for Eventual Membership”
Vicki Birchfield, Director of the EUCE at the Georgia Institute of Technology

“The Problem of Turkish Identity in the Novels of Orhan Pamuk”
Michael Mcgaha, Pomona University

“Turkish Delight or the Stickiness of the European Union?”
Sam Cherribi, Emory University

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Presenters:

“Liberal Islam in Turkey”
Metin Heper, Bilkent University

“Tolerance and Co-Existence: Islamic Tradition and Ottoman Practices”
Asma Afsaruddin, University of Notre Dame

“Turkey’s Imperial Legacy: Understanding Contemporary Turkey through its Ottoman Past”
Joshua W. Walker, Princeton University

Presenters:

“The Abraham Path Initiative”
Joshua N. Weiss, Abraham Path Initiative, Harvard University

“Building Bridges and Crossing Barriers”
Ted Masburn, University of Mobile

“Religion, Violence, and Inter-faith Harmony: Islamic Education in Indonesia”
Florian Pohl, Emory University

Presenters:

“M. Fethullah Gulen's Blueprint for World Peace”
Richard Penaskovic, Auburn University

“From Millet to Multiculturalism: Reflections on Turkishness in the 21st Century”
Lisa DiCarlo, Babson College

“Open Civilization: Civilizational Pluralism in the Ottoman Practice”
Recep Senturk, Fatih University

Presenters:

“The Role of the Media”
Ali Hadi Aslan, Today’s Zaman, Turkey

“Islamaphobia, New Media and the Dialogue between Civilizations”
Radwan Ziadeh, United States Institute of Peace

“Combating Defamation of Religions: A Step Forward for International Human Rights and Dialog of Civilizations”
Turan Kayaoglu, University of Washington, Tacoma