Conferences (Spring 2008)
- “The Threat to Turkish Democracy: Islam or Secularism?” (April 17, 2008). See details
- “Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal” (March 7, 2008). See details
- “The New Draft Constitution of Turkey” (March 3, 2008). See details
- “Sharing Sacred Space: Religion and Conflict Resolution” (February 14 and 15, 2008). See details
Individual Talks and Events (Spring 2008)
- Karsten D. Voigt: “Transatlantic Differences on the Role of Religion in Politics” (April 24, 2008). See details
- Michael Buehler: “Democratization and Islamization: Indonesia's Non-Fundamentalist Sources of Shari'a Law” (April 7, 2008). See details
- Denis Lacorne: “The Rise ↦ Fall of American Secularism” (March 28, 2008). See details
- Rajeev Bhargava, “To be Secular or Not: How Should States Deal with Religious Diversity?” (February 21, 2008). See details
- Imran Khan: “Pakistan: Current & Future Challenges” (January 25, 2008).
International Relations Theory and Religion Speaker
Series (Spring 2008)
Chaired by the Professors Jack Snyder and Alfred Stepan
- Monica Toft: “Hypotheses on Religion and War” (April 30, 2008) See details
- Daniel Nexon: “Religion and International Relations: No Leap of Faith Required” (April 22, 2008) See details
- Daniel Philpott: “When God Means War, When God Means Peace: Explaining the Wide Variations in Religious Politics” (April 9, 2008) See details
- Michael Barnett: “Religion, Humanitarianism and International Relations” (Thursday, February 14, 2008) See details
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: “Secularism and IR Theory” (January 30, 2008) See details
- Peter Katzenstein: “Civilizational States, Secularisms and Religions” (Wednesday, January 23, 2008) See details
Lecture Series: “Transforming Secularism, Democracy, and Nationalism in Turkey" (Spring 2008)
- Ali Bardakoglu: “Muslims, Christians, and Jews: The Ottoman Experience of Peaceful Co-Existence” (April 22, 2008). See details
- Sener Aktürk: “Challenges to Transform the Ethnicity Regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish Electoral Behavior and Demands for Recognition, 1946-2007” (April 14, 2008). See details
- Berna Turam: “Contesting Democratization in Turkey: The Gülen Movement, AK Party and their Discontents” (March 12, 2008). See details
- Hasan Kösebalaban: “Globalization, European Union, and the Transformation of Islamic Perspectives in Turkey” (March 5, 2008). See details
- Ahmet Yükleyen: “Anthropology of Islamic Authority and Knowledge in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands” (February 11, 2008). See details
