| Friday 27th May 2016 Location: University of Vienna, kleiner Festsaal |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5: 30 p.m. | Registration |
| 5:30 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. | Welcome speech and opening: Ednan Aslan University of Vienna, Austria Heinz Faßmann Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna, Austria Sebastian Kurz Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Austria |
| 6:10 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Break |
| 6:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. | Keynote Speech: Ahmed Shaheed School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK „Islam and the State: Is there a way back to the future?” |
| 6:45 p.m. – 6:55 p.m. | Break |
| 6:55 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion: Tarek Fatah Author and columnist for the Toronto Sun and Canada's Post Media group of newspapers, Canada Cengiz Günay Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Austria Said Sadek AlAhram-Canadian University, Egypt Moderation: Rüdiger Lohlker |
| 8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Questions from the audience |
| 8:30 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. | Music from Austria |
| 8:40 p.m. | Dinner |
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| Saturday 28th May 2016 Location: University of Vienna, kleiner Festsaal |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Registration |
| Session I: Islam and Politics in East-Europe Moderation: Zekirija Sejdini |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. | Muhamed Ali International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina „Islamic NGO activities in secular political systems: the case of Albanian speaking territories” |
| 9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. | Ešref Kenan Rašidagić University of Sarajevo/International Burch University „Can we talk about ‘Political’ Islam in Bosnia?” |
| 9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Laurentiu D. Tănase University of Bucharest, Romania „When is the Islam going to become a political actor?“ „What’s the reaction of the Christian-orthodox majority?” |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | Leila Almazova Kazan State University, Russia „Islamic Political Organizations and Trends in Contemporary Russia” |
| 10:20 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Coffee break |
| Session II: West-Europe Moderation: Yașar Sarιkaya |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. | Brigitte Maréchal Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium „Beyond the speeches on the citizenship, how political Islamism has it forged the radical imaginary of young Europeans at the time as of years 2000 and beyond: resources and relationships to the contexts” |
| 11:05 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. | Mark Sedgwick Aarhus University, Denmark „Islam and Politics in Denmark” |
| 11:25 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Rüdiger Lohlker University of Vienna, Austria „Islamic State, Caliphate and Modernity” |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:05 a.m. | Bacem Dziri Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany „The Illusion of Unity as an Element of Daesh’s Attractivnes“ |
| 12:05 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch break |
| Session III: USA and Europe (2) Moderation: Moshe Ma’oz |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. | Dounia Bouzar Director of the CPDSI (Center for Preventing Deviant Movements Derived from Islam), France „Méthode expérimentale de déradicalisation: quelles stratégies émotionnelles et cognitives ?“ |
| 1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. | Samim Akgönül Strasbourg University, France „Political Islam, Islam in Politics, Politics in Islam: Turkey's experience” |
| 2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Steven G. Merley Editor of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch (GMBDW), UK „Political Science v. Investigations – How Best to Understand the Global Muslim Brotherhood” |
| 2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. | Ronald Sandee Chief Global Jihad Analyst at Kronos Advisory, USA „Influence and Threat of al-Qaida and its shifting from Pakistan to Yemen” |
| 2:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. | Coffee break |
| Session IV: Asia Moderation: Samim Akgönül |
| 3:10 p.m. – 3:30 a.m. | İştar Gözaydın Gediz University, Turkey „The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey” |
| 3:30 p.m. – 3:50 a.m. | Moshe Ma'oz Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel „Al-Haram Al-Sharif/The Temple Mount and the Emerging Muslim-Jewish Religious Conflict” |
| 3:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Alessandro Cancian Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK „The mystical and the political in modern Shiʿi Islam: Islamic government, revolution and the case of Sufism in 20th century Iran.” |
| 4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Elmira Akhmetova International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) „State and Religion in Post-Independence Malaysia: 1957-2016” |
| 4:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. | Coffee break |
| Session V: Asia (2) and Africa Moderation: Tarek Fatah |
| 4:50 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. | Mohammed Ilyas University of Liverpool, UK/Singapore „What measures are effective in countering violence and promoting de-radicalization?” |
| 5:10 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Hodri Ariev Chairman of Pondok Pesantren Bahrul Ulum, East Java, Indonesia „Islam Against Islam“ |
| 5:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. | Dele Ashiru University of Lagos, Nigeria „Political Islam, Boko Haram and the Illusions of an Islamic State in Nigeria” |
| 5:50 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. | Questions from the audience End |
