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FETHULLAH GULEN CHAIR CONFERENCE PROGRAM

From Dialogue to Collaboration: The Vision of Fethullah Gülen and Muslim-Christian Relations

 

Venue: Mercy Lecture Theatre, Young St, Fitzroy (ACU National)
            (Off 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy VIC 3065)
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Day 1: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 

8 am                Registration

9 am                Welcome: Professor Gabrielle McMullen; Mr Orhan Cicek

                        Conference launch: Sir James Gobbo AC, CVO, KStJ, QC, former Governor

                        of Victoria

                        Message: Mr George Lekakis, Chair, Victorian Multicultural Commission

 9.30 am           Opening addresses

                        Chair: Thomas Michel SJ

Abdullah Aymaz: The Gülen movement: past and present

                        Daniel Madigan SJ: Nostra Aetate’s Unanswered Questions

11.00               Morning Tea

11.30               Panel 1: Fethullah Gülen: sources and traditions

Chair: Greg Barton

 

Prof. Dr. H.M. Amin Abdullah: Topic tba

 

İsmail Albayrak: Gulen’s approach to the Qur’an and exegesis

 

Philipp Bruckmayr: The Naqshbandi tradition and Fethullah Gülen

 

                        Mehmet Şeker: Sufism and Fethullah Gülen

 

1.15 pm           Lunch

 

2.30                 Panel 2: The Gülen Movement and active engagement with society

                        Chair: Emre Celik

 

David Tittensor: Not Just Talking Heads: The Gülen Movement Translating

Rhetoric into Action

                       

Hasan Hörküç: Externalism and Internalism Reconsidered:

Fethullah Gülen: A Case Study

 

Jonathan Lyons: Islam and Science: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy

 

4.00                 Afternoon Tea

4.30                 Panel 3: Perspectives on Dialogue

                        Chair: Daniel Madigan SJ

Anne Hunt: Interfaith dialogue and the meeting of hearts

 

                        Mahsheed Ansari: Gülen’s philosophy on compassion and love and the

                        momentous role of dialogue in constructing global peace

Gerard Hall SM: Inter- or Intra- Religious Dialogue?

6.00                 Close: Day 1

  

Day 2: Thursday, 16 July 2009

 

9 am                Panel 4: Fethullah Gülen and interfaith dialogue

                        Chair:  Jonathan Lyons  

                        Mehmet Özalp: A chance for a step forward in dialogue or Islam’s

                        Trojan Horse? Fethullah Gülen and interfaith dialogue

Züleyha Keskin: Principles of Dialogue in the Fethullah Gulen's Thought

Nawab Osman: Strengthening Inter-Faith Ties: The Gülen Movement in

Singapore and Australia

10.30               Morning Tea

11.00               Panel 5: Nostra Aetate and Muslim-Christian Dialogue

                        Chair: TBA

Kath Engebretson: Muslims, Catholics and the Common Purpose of Justice

and Peace

                        Salih Yücel : Institutionalizing of Muslim-Christian Dialogue: Nostra

                        Aetate and Fethullah Gulen’s Vision
 

Constant Mews: Catholicism, Nostra Aetate, and Interreligious Dialogue: From Multiculturalism to Interculturalism

12.30 pm         Lunch

2.00                 Panel 6: Aspects of Gülen and the Gülen Movement

                        Chair: TBA
 

İhsan Yılmaz: Towards a New Interpretation of Islamic Politico-Legal

Philosophy on the State in the Light of Fethullah Gülen's Ijtihad
 

Çemen Polat: Gulen-inspired Schools in Australia: Educational Vision and

Funding

 

Hakan Yeşilova: Publishing and the Gülen Movement

3.30                 Afternoon Tea

4.00                 Concluding Plenary

                        Chair: Constant Mews
 

Neil Ormerod: Secularisation: a matter of common interest and concern for

                        Muslims and Christians

                        Prof. Dr Muhammad Sirajudin Syamsudin

                        Reflections from the floor

5.00                 Break and Refreshments

5.45                 Sufi Music

6.30                 Public Lecture
 

Fr Thomas Michel SJ:

Where to now? Ways forward for interreligious dialogue

 

Chair: Professor Anne Hunt

                        Response: Professor Joseph Camilleri

 


                   

Islamophobia: fear of the other Conference Program

Venue: K Block, Caulfield (Melbourne) Campus of Monash University
              900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East, VIC 3145
 
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Day 1: Saturday 18 July 2009

 

9.00 – 9.10                  Official Welcome

Professor Stephanie Fahey           

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Monash University

 

9.10 - 9.30                  Opening Comments

Simon Overland (tbc)

Chief Commissioner, Victoria Police

James Merlino, MP

Minister for Sport, Recreation, Youth Affairs and

Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs

 

9.30 – 11.00                 Panel 1                       Migration and the Migrant

Raelene Frances

Dean of Arts, Monash University

Ela Ogru

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Fetih Mansouri

Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University

         

11.00- 11.30                Morning Tea

 

11.30 – 1.00                 Panel 2                       Political Discourse

Ihsan Yilmaz

Fatih University, Istanbul and Today’s Zaman Newspaper

Hanifa Deen

Author

Joseph Camilleri

Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University

1.00 - 2.00                   Lunch

2.00 - 3.50                   Panel 3                       Fear of the Other

Dan Madigan (Georgetown University)

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

Jonathan Lyons

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Derya Iner

Australian Catholic University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Douglas Pratt

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Waikato

3.50 – 4.20      Afternoon Tea

4.20 - 5.50                   Panel 4                       Fear of Loss of Freedom

Gary Bouma

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Susan Carland

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Helen Szoke

Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission

Day 2: Sunday 19 July 2009

 

9.00 - 10.30                 Panel 5                       Perceptions of Threat

 

Greg Barton

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Stephen Fontana

Victoria Police

David Tittensor

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

 

10.30 – 11.00              Morning Tea

 

11.00 - 12.30               Panel 6                       Fear of the Unknown

 

Philipp Bruckmayr

Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

Benjamin MacQueen

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Irfan Ahmad

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

 
12.30 - 1.30                 Lunch

1.30 - 3.00                   Panel 7                       Social Cohesion

Rachel Woodlock (Monash University)

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Anna Halafoff (Monash University)

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Andrew Markus

Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University

 
3.00- 3.30                     Coffee break

3.30-  5.20                 Panel 8                       Media and Public Discourse

Waleed Aly

School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Paul Ramadge, Chief Editor of The Age, Melbourne

Irfan Yusuf

Author

Hasan Hörküç

School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham

5.20 – 5.30      Closing Remarks

 

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