WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
Secularism, Religious Nationalism, and the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective
October 15-17, 2004
Bilkent University, Ankara
This workshop is planned as part of an
international collaborative project titled “Icons, Images, and Ideologies of Religion
and Nation: Secularism, Religious Nationalism, and the Public Sphere in Comparative
Perspective,” which is funded by a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International
Collaborative Research Grant for the Middle East And North Africa Region. This research
project is jointly run by Alev Cinar (Bilkent University), Srirupa Roy (University of
Massachusetts at Amherst) and Maha Yahya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) who are
collaborating as three research partners.
We view the exchange of knowledge through this workshop as a unique opportunity to
practice interdisciplinarity in its truest sense, as the creation of a new and distinctive
‘inter’ space between disciplines rather than as an additive combination of multiple
theoretical paradigms. The effort to creatively synthesize different disciplinary
perspectives is a motivating goal of our collaborative project, with an intensive exchange
of knowledge occurring at all stages of the research process.
The Workshop Objectives
One of the most important components of this project is to enhance collaboration and
scholarly exchange among scholars from the MENA region and South Asia and to establish the
basis of a scholarly network on secularism and the public sphere.
By convening this workshop, we hope to widen the scope and the implications of
cross-regional exchange and collaboration beyond the core group of the three research
partners. Toward this end, we plan to include sessions on plans and strategies for the
creation of long-term and institutional networks of scholarly exchange within the MENA
region and also between the MENA and South Asia region. Thus, apart from sharing research
with each other through the presentation of papers, the workshop participants will also
collaborate on the development of cross-regional links and networks, by discussing issues
such as the possibility of establishing institutional linkages within and across regions
(for instance, a research network involving CRTS in Ankara and PUKAR or Sarai in India as
research partners). The workshop proceedings and ideas for future collaboration will be
posted on the project website, which will also contain links to research resources in the
MENA and South Asia region.
Potential Participants
The potential participants of this workshop are scholars whose research areas involve the
public sphere, urban studies, visual culture, media and film, and public rituals and who
are working in the MENA and South Asia regions.
Maha Yahya (Lebanon, American University of Beirut)
Mertina Reiker (Egypt, American University in Cairo) - ABSTRACT
- PAPER
Samia Mehrez (Egypt, American University in Cairo) - ABSTRACT
/ PAPER
Walid Sadek (Lebanon, American University of Beirut) - PAPER
Fawwaz Traboulsi (Lebanon, Lebanese American University) - ABSTRACT / PAPER
Srirupa Roy (India, University of Massachusetts, USA) - ABSTRACT / PAPER
Usha Zacharias (India, Westfield State College, USA) - ABSTRACT
/ PAPER
Ravi Sundaram (India, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) - ABSTRACT / PAPER
Sabina Kidwai (AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) - ABSTRACT / PAPER
Alev Çınar (Bilkent University) - ABSTRACT - PAPER
Ayse Öncü (Sabancı University) - ABSTRACT - PAPER
Arif Güven Sargın (METU) - ABSTRACT - PAPER
Buket Türkmen (Galatasaray University) - ABSTRACT
/ PAPER
Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University) - PAPER
Gizem Zencirci (Bilkent University) - ABSTRACT / PAPER
Nezih Erdoğan (Bahçeşehir University) - PAPER
Organizers:
Alev Çınar (Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara)
Srirupa Roy (Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Maha Yahya (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, M.I.T.)
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