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Program At-A-Glance

Second International Conference on Islam in the Contemporary World:
The Fethullah Gulen Movement In Thought and Practice
November 3-5, 2006
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

	November 4 Saturday	November 5 Sunday
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.	Opening Remarks
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Session I	Session V
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Session II	Session VI
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Luncheon w/ Keynote Speech	Luncheon w/ Closing Remarks
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Session III
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.	Session IV
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.	Breakout Sessions

Program Details

FRIDAY, November 3, 2006
6:30 - 9:00	DINNER

SATURDAY, November 4, 2006
	Session I Session Chair and Discussant: T. Boyd
8:30 - 8:45	Opening Remarks
8:45 - 10:15	The Second Path to God Revisited; the Reconciliation of Science and Religion in the Gulen Movement: K. Fontenot & M. Fontenot
	Gülen's Interpretation of Sufism: D. Koc
	Methodist Christianity, Gulen's Sufism, Perfection, Free Will, Tolerance, and Democracy: T. Dotts
	Q&A
10:15 - 10:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Session II Session Chair and Discussant: S. Law
10:30 - 12:00	Secularism in America and Turkey and Fethullah Gulen's Response: T.Boyd
	Voluntary Altruistic Action: Its Symbolic Challenge against Sinecures of Vested Interests: M. Cetin
	Gulen in Dialogue: Fethullah Gulen's Ideas in the Context of the Larger Humanities: J. B. Carroll
	Q&A
12:00 - 2:00	Luncheon w/ Keynote Speech: Akbar Ahmed
	Session III Session Chair and Discussant: G. Blackwell-Eagleson
2:00 - 3:30	Teaching Tolerance with Turkish Art: Lessons from Gülen and the Turkish Traditional Arts: T. Vaughan
	The Wisdom of Fethullah Gulen and the Truth of Parker Palmer "Enlightened Education as the Key to Global Transformation": B. Boyd
	The Urgency of Educational Reform in the United States of America: Lessons Learned from Fethullah Gülen: S. Santos
	Q&A
3:30 - 3:45	COFFEE BREAK
	Session IV Session Chair and Discussant: A. Hertzke
3:45 - 5:15	Fethullah Gulen, Turkey and the European Union: P. Weller
	Defamation as a Smoke Screen: A Case Study in Modern Turkey: A. Y. Aslandogan
	The Gulen Movement and Turkish Integration in Germany: J. Irvine
	Q&A
	BREAK
	Breakout Sessions
7:30 - 9:00	State-church relations Civilizational Dialog/Clash Spirituality Gender roles/rights Democracy & Religion Movement itself Art & Human Relationships; Tolerance; Devotion Education

SUNDAY, November 5, 2006
	Session V Session Chair and Discussant: G. Atkinson
8:45 - 10:15	Blessed are the Peacemakers: J. Cantrell
	The Influence of Fethullah Gulen in the Australian Experience of Interfaith Dialogue: E. Celik
	"Religion: Hard or Soft Boiled?: Understanding Sacred Violence and Martyrdom Through the Example and Writings of Fethullah Gülen." A Perspective from the UK and Europe: I. Williams
	Q&A
10:15 - 10:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Session VI Session Chair and Discussant: J. Carroll
10:30 - 12:00	Fethullah Gülen and Classical Western Aretaic Theory: D. De Bolt
	Fethullah Gülen's Use of Philosophical and Scriptural Resources for Tolerance: M. Webb
	The Resolution of Social, Ethnic, and Religious Conflict in the Modern World, and Democracy: N. Bostanci
	Q&A
12:00 - 2:00	Luncheon w/ Closing Remarks: T. Boyd