Program
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\nThursday 16 May
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10.00 am - 11.15 pm
Giancarlo Bosetti\, Director of Reset-Dialogues: \;Introduction
\nKaren Barkey: \;Political Legitimacy and Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Lessons Learned
\nChair: \;Asaf Savaş Akat
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\n11.30 am - 1.15 pm
\nAbbas Vali: \;Kurdish Question and the Legitimation of Sovereign Power in Turkey
\nAmmon Raz-Krakotzkin: \;Israel&rsquo\;s Exceptionality\, Binationalism and Exilic Thinking
\nChair: \;Asaf Savaş Akat
\n\n2.15 pm - 4.00 pm
\nFahmy Howeidy: \;The Crisis of Political Islam in Power
\nAmel Grami: Rethinking Gender in the Tunisian Revolution
\nChair: \;Mohammed Hashas
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\n4.15 pm &ndash\; 6.00 pm
\nScreening 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.
\nDiscussants: \;Faisal Devji\, \;İlay Romain Ö\;rs
\nChair: \;Volker Kaul
\n\n6.00 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups
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\nFriday 17 May
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\n10.00 am - 11.00 pm
\nStathis Kalyvas: \;Current Conflicts in the Middle East
\nChair: \;Nina zu Fü\;rstenberg
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\n11.15 am &ndash\; 1.15 pm
\nHamadi Redissi: \;Post-Islamist Legitimacy \; Contested: the Tunisian Case
\n\;Amr Hamzawy: \;Dynamics of Government and Opposition in Egypt
\nChair: \;Nina zu Fü\;rstenberg
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\n1.15 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups
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\nSaturday 18 May
\n\n10.00 am - 12.00 pm
\nLuigi Mascilli Migliorini: \;Sources of Political Legitimacy: an Historical Perspective
\nMurat Borovali \;and \;Cemil Boyraz: \;Turkish Secularism and Islam: Dialogue with the Alevis
\nChair: \;Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
\n\n12.15 pm - 1.15 pm
\nIvan Krastev: \;The Logic of Political Disintegration
\nChair: \;Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
\n\n2.30 pm - 4.15 pm
\nROUNDTABLE: \;The Legitimacy Crisis of the European Project
\nDiscussants: \;Giuliano Amato \;(in videoconference)\, \;Cengiz Aktar\, \;Alessandro Ferrara\, \;Amr Hamzawy\,Ivan Krastev
\nChair: \;Giancarlo Bosetti
\n\n4.15 pm: \;Workshop with Discussion Groups \; \; \;
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\nMonday 20 May
\n\n10.00 am: Workshop with Discussion Groups
\n\n11.00 am - 12.30 pm
\nROUNDTABLE: \;Jü\;rgen Habermas&rsquo\; \;The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: 50 Years later
\nSpeakers: \;Seyla Benhabib\, \;Giancarlo Bosetti\, \;David Rasmussen
\nChair: \;Ferda Keskin
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\n12.45 pm &ndash\; 1.45 pm
\nJonathan Laurence: \;Mediterranean Symbiosis: 21st-Century Religion Policy in Majority-Muslim and Minority-Muslim Contexts
\nChair: \;Ferda Keskin
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\n3.00 pm - 4.00 pm
\nAbdullahi An&rsquo\;-Naim: \;The Contingent Role of Islam in Political Legitimacy
\nChair: \;Roberto Toscano
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\n4.00 pm &ndash\; 5.00 pm
\nMichael Walzer \;(in videoconference): \;Can there be a democratic revolution and a religious revival in the same place\, at the same time? \;
Chair: \;Roberto Toscano
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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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\nTuesday 21 May
\n\n10.00 am - 12.00 pm
\nHarun Karcic: \;Islamic Law Before and After the 'Arab Spring': a Look at the Constitutions of Libya\, Tunisia\, and Egypt
\nLisa Anderson: \;Creative Destruction: Religious Faith and Legitimacy in the Arab World
\nChair: \;David Rasmussen
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\n12.15 pm - 1.15 pm
\nMeyda Yeğenoğlu: \;Sovereignty Renounced: Autoimmunizing and Democratizing Europe
\nChair: \;İlay Romain Ö\;rs
\n\n2.30 pm - 4.00 pm
\nROUNDTABLE: \;Turkey\, at the Crossroads between Europe and the Middle East
\nSpeakers: \;Aykan Erdemir\, \;Nader Hashemi\, \;Stathis Kalyvas\, \;Fuat Keyman
\nChair: \;Asaf Savaş Akat
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\n4.00 pm: Workshop with Discussion Groups
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\nWednesday 22 May
\n\n10.00 am - 12.00 pm
\nFaisal Devji: \;Politics After Al-Qaeda
\nNader Hashemi: \;Rethinking Religion and Political Legitimacy across the Islam-West Divide
\nChair: \;Seyla Benhabib
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\n12.15 pm - 1.15 pm
\nFinal presentations of the discussion groups \;
\n\n1.15 pm
\nRemzi Sanver\, \;Rector of Bilgi University: \;Closing
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\n\nThe Seminars are free and open to All
\nThe program may be subject to change. \;Please check \;for updated information:
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