CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY

CSID 17th Annual Conference 

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Renaissance Hotel 

999 9^th Street, NW

Washington DC 20001

EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS ON SUNDAY, APRIL 10th.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

Thursday, April 21, 2016

8:00 – 8:30 am Registration

8:30 - 9:00 am     Welcoming and Opening Remarks

• Prof. Tamara Sonn – Chair, CSID Program Committee
• Prof. Nader Hashemi – Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver

9:00 – 9:30 am Keynote Presentation

Keith Ellison

United States Representative (D-MN)

9:30 – 10:45 am Panel 1

Panel 1: Countering Extremism, Promoting Democracy

Moderator: Qamarul Huda (Dept. of State)

• “Iraq’s Anti-ISIS Militias: Implications for Democracy” – Hassan Abbas, Professor and Chair of the Department of Analytical Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), National Defense University (NDU)

• “Rethinking Counterterrorism in the Age of ISIS” – Sahar F. Aziz, Texas A&M School of Law 

• “Countering ISIS and Promoting Democracy Among Filipino Youth in Bangsamoro Region” – Mussolini Sinsuat Lidasan, Executive Director of the Al Qalam Institute of Islamic Identities and Dialogue in Southeast Asia at Ateneo de Davao University

10:45 - 11:15 am  Coffee and Tea Break

11:15 – 12:30 pm Panel 2

Strategizing Democratization

Moderator: Nader Hashemi (University of Denver)

• “Promoting Democracy in the Face of Autocratic Meltdown and the Rise of Geo-sectarianism and Jihadism” – Kamran Bokhari, ​Fellow, Program on Extremism, Center for Cyber & Homeland Security, George Washington University, and Senior Lecturer, Security & Policy Institute, University of Ottawa​

• “Citizenship and Authoritarianism in Saudi Arabia After the Arab Spring” – Natana DeLong-Bas, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Theology Department & Islamic Civilization and Societies, Boston College

• “Aspirations for a Dignified Life: Palestinians in a Post-National World” – Maria Holt, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Westminster

• “The Influence of Ghannouchism on Malaysian Political Parties” – Maszlee Malik, Assistant Professor in the Department of Fiqh and Usul al­Fiqh, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Keynote Banquet Luncheon

Abdelfattah Mourou

Vice President of the Tunisian Parliament

Peter Mandaville (Invited)

Senior Advisor for Religion and Global Affairs

U.S. Department of State

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Panel 3 

 

Islam, Moral Authority, and Political Rights

Moderator: Tamara Sonn, Georgetown Univ.

• “Palestine-Israel and the Neoliberal Ideal” – Luke Peterson, Visiting Assistant Professor in History, The University of Pittsburgh

• “Preserving Stability in Jordan” – Anja Wehler-Schoeck, Resident Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Jordan & Iraq

• “The Challenge of ‘Daesh’ and Rebuilding the House of Islam” – Rashid Shaz, Professor &  Director, Centre for Promotion of Educational & Cultural Advancement of Muslims, Aligarh Muslim University, India

• “Negotiated moral authority in the struggle against violent Islamic dogma” – Alexs Thompson, Ph.D., Middle Eastern/Religious Studies, University of Chicago

3:30-4:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea Break

4:00-5:30 p.m. Panel 4

PANEL DISCUSSION on:

The Future of Islam and Democracy After the Arab Spring

Moderator: Dan Brumberg, Georgetown Univ.

• John Voll, Professor, Georgetown University

• Nathan Brown, Professor, George Washington University

• Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

• William Taylor, Executive Vice President, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

5:30 -5:45 pm  Closing Remarks

• Prof. Asma Afsaruddin - Chair, CSID Board of Directors

Co-Sponsors of the Annual Conference:

Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)