Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:00-5:45 pm Lucy Ellis Lounge 1080

Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:00-5:45 pm Lucy Ellis Lounge 1080

Thursday, February 28, 2008
2:00-5:45 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge
1080 Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
Reception, Bread Company
Goodwin Ave., Urbana
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Islam, Secularism,
and Democracy
Sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; cosponsored by the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center and European Union Center
in Turkey Today
ISLAMIC POLITICS AND THE SECULARIST
BACKLASH IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY
Berna Turam
Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies
Hampshire College
ISLAM AND SECULARISM:
TURKEY BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND
AMERICAN MODELS
Ahmet Kuru
Political Science
San Diego State University
FAITHFUL (DIS)OBEDIENCE? RELIGIOUS
CONVICTIONS, PARTY TIES, AND CIVIL
SOCIETY GROUPS
Sultan Tepe
Political Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
TRANSNATIONAL TURKISH ISLAMIC
COMMUNITIES
Ahmet Yukleyen
Anthropology and Sociology
University of Mississippi