A MIDDLE EAST

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A MIDDLE EAST
A NEW
MIDDLE
EAST:
Persistent
Authoritarianism(s)
OR
Prospects for
Democratization?
7 - 8 NOVEMBER 2015
Martı İstanbul Hotel, TAKSİM
Adres: Martı İstanbul Hotel
Abdülhak Hamit Cad. No: 25/B Taksim
7 NOVEMBER 2015, SATURDAY
8 NOVEMBER 2015, SUNDAY
09:30
Registration & Tea/Coffee
10:30
Registration & Tea/Coffee
09:45
WELCOMING REMARKS
11:00
Ahmet Demirel Faculty of Political Science, Marmara University
Felix Schmidt Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Turkey
SESSION 3: GRASSROOTS IN ACTION FOR DEMOCRACY:
INVESTIGATING THE SIGNIFICANCE
Speakers:
Donatella della Porta Where Did the Revolution Go?
Intense times and their outcomes
10:00
SESSION 1: MINORITIES VIS-A-VIS POWERS
Speakers:
Martin van Bruinessen Tribe, Party, Cemaat: The articulation
of Kurdish secular and Islamic social formations
John Chalcraft The Struggle for Deliberative Space
in the Arab Uprisings
Rabab Al-Mahdi Contentious Politics Between Organization and Class
Hamit Bozarslan From Revolutionary Configurations to Violence:
The Middle East 2011-2015
Thomas Pierret Explaining Success and Failure among Syrian
Insurgent Groups
Ziad Majed Syria: Reconciliation, coexistence and justice
Cuma Çiçek “Democratic Autonomy” from Diyarbakır to Kobanî:
A Kurdish perspective on democratization issues in the Middle East
Moderated by: Ferhat Kentel
13:00
Lunch Break
14:30
SESSION 4: WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Speakers:
Deniz Kandiyoti The Gender Sub-texts of the Arab Uprisings:
A question of patriarchy or governance?
Moderated by: Seda Altuğ
Nadje al-Ali Gender, Authoritarianism and Radical Democracy:
Reflections on contemporary feminist struggles
12:30
Lunch Break
Aitemad Muhanna-Matar New Trends of Women’s Activism after
the Arab Uprisings: Redefining women’s leadership
14:00
SESSION 2: ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND CO-EXISTENCE
Moderated by: Büşra Ersanlı
Speakers:
Yüksel Taşkın Political Islam in Power: Roots and limits of
AKP’s majori-cratic authoritarianism
16:30
End of the Conference
Karabekir Akkoyunlu Regime Consolidation and Crisis
Management: The rise of Iran against the odds
Mariz Tadros The Brotherhoodization of Egypt Thesis: Myth,
manufactured reality or movement maneuverings?
Nicolas Pouillard Ennahda in Tunisia: Towards a “civil state”?
The long-term evolution of an Islamist movement
Moderated by: Günay Göksu Özdoğan
16:30
End of the First Day
· Due to space limitations, pre-registration is required.
Please send an e-mail to [email protected] for registration.
· The conference inputs and discussions will be held only in English.