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From Dialogue to Collaboration: The Vision of Fethullah Gülen and Muslim-Christian Relations
Venue:
Mercy Lecture Theatre,
Young St, Fitzroy (ACU National) 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
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
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
3.30- 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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