The Sources of Political Legitimacy - From the Erosion of the Nation-State to the Rise of Political Islam

Program

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Thursday 16 May

10.00 am - 11.15 pm

Giancarlo Bosetti, Director of Reset-Dialogues: Introduction

Karen Barkey: Political Legitimacy and Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Lessons Learned

Chair: Asaf Savaş Akat

 

11.30 am - 1.15 pm

Abbas Vali: Kurdish Question and the Legitimation of Sovereign Power in Turkey

Ammon Raz-Krakotzkin: Israel’s Exceptionality, Binationalism and Exilic Thinking

Chair: Asaf Savaş Akat

2.15 pm - 4.00 pm

Fahmy Howeidy: The Crisis of Political Islam in Power

Amel Grami: Rethinking Gender in the Tunisian Revolution

Chair: Mohammed Hashas

 

4.15 pm – 6.00 pm

Screening of the documentary Makhzen & Me  by Nadir Bouhmouch followed by a discussion with one of the protagonists of the documentary and the February 20th Movement in Morocco, Montasser Drissi.

Discussants: Faisal Devji, İlay Romain Örs

Chair: Volker Kaul

6.00 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups

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Friday 17 May

 

10.00 am - 11.00 pm

Stathis Kalyvas: Current Conflicts in the Middle East

Chair: Nina zu Fürstenberg

 

11.15 am – 1.15 pm

Hamadi Redissi: Post-Islamist Legitimacy  Contested: the Tunisian Case

 Amr Hamzawy: Dynamics of Government and Opposition in Egypt

Chair: Nina zu Fürstenberg

 

1.15 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups

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Saturday 18 May

10.00 am - 12.00 pm

Luigi Mascilli Migliorini: Sources of Political Legitimacy: an Historical Perspective

Murat Borovali and Cemil Boyraz: Turkish Secularism and Islam: Dialogue with the Alevis

Chair: Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

12.15 pm - 1.15 pm

Ivan Krastev: The Logic of Political Disintegration

Chair: Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

2.30 pm - 4.15 pm

ROUNDTABLE: The Legitimacy Crisis of the European Project

Discussants: Giuliano Amato (in videoconference), Cengiz Aktar, Alessandro Ferrara, Amr Hamzawy,Ivan Krastev

Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti

4.15 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups   

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Sunday 19 May    (NO SEMINARS)

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Monday 20 May

10.00 am: Workshop with Discussion Groups

11.00 am - 12.30 pm

ROUNDTABLE: Jürgen Habermas’ The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: 50 Years later

Speakers: Seyla Benhabib, Giancarlo Bosetti, David Rasmussen

Chair: Ferda Keskin

 

12.45 pm – 1.45 pm

Jonathan Laurence: Mediterranean Symbiosis: 21st-Century Religion Policy in Majority-Muslim and Minority-Muslim Contexts

Chair: Ferda Keskin

 

3.00 pm - 4.00 pm

Abdullahi An’-Naim: The Contingent Role of Islam in Political Legitimacy

Chair: Roberto Toscano

 

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Michael Walzer (in videoconference): Can there be a democratic revolution and a religious revival in the same place, at the same time? 
Chair: Roberto Toscano
 

5.15 pm - 6.30 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Religion and Democracy in the Arab Spring
Speakers: Lisa Anderson, Faisal Devji, Nora Fisher Onar, Michael Walzer (in videoconference)
Chair: Roberto Toscano

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Tuesday 21 May

10.00 am - 12.00 pm

Harun Karcic: Islamic Law Before and After the 'Arab Spring': a Look at the Constitutions of Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt

Lisa Anderson: Creative Destruction: Religious Faith and Legitimacy in the Arab World

Chair: David Rasmussen

 

12.15 pm - 1.15 pm

Meyda Yeğenoğlu: Sovereignty Renounced: Autoimmunizing and Democratizing Europe

Chair: İlay Romain Örs

2.30 pm - 4.00 pm

ROUNDTABLE: Turkey, at the Crossroads between Europe and the Middle East

Speakers: Aykan Erdemir, Nader Hashemi, Stathis Kalyvas, Fuat Keyman

Chair: Asaf Savaş Akat

 

4.00 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups

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Wednesday 22 May

10.00 am - 12.00 pm

Faisal Devji: Politics After Al-Qaeda

Nader Hashemi: Rethinking Religion and Political Legitimacy across the Islam-West Divide

Chair: Seyla Benhabib

 

12.15 pm - 1.15 pm

Final presentations of the discussion groups  

1.15 pm

Remzi Sanver, Rector of Bilgi University: Closing

 

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The Seminars are free and open to All

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