Programme

Registration/Badges in the University main building
Opening: Bjørn Olav Utvik
Key note lecture Professor Yvonne Haddad
Working group session I
   Visualizing Global Moments in the Levant, CR
   Ancient Middle Eastern Diversities, Coffee Room 2
   Negotiating Democracy in Turkey, Coffee Room 1
   Philosophy and Mystical Islam, Meeting Room
Reception in the University main building hosted by Thomas Wilhelmsson, Vice Rector of University of Helsinki
Finnish music performed by Cristina Andersson and Ville Matvejeff

Saturday, 22 September 2007

09.00 - 11.00

11.00 - 11.15
11.15 - 13.00

13.00 - 14.00
14.00 - 17.00

17.00 - 19.00

20.00

Working group session II
   Ethnographic Perspectives on Rituals and Religious Practices I, CR
   Modern Iran: Politics and the Shi'a Challenge, Coffee Room 2
   Old and New Interpretations on Texts I, Coffee Room 1
   The Social Dynamics of Migration, Meeting Room

Coffee break
Working group session III
   Ethnographic Perspectives on Rituals and Religious Practices II, CR
   Old and New Interpretations on Texts II, Coffee Room 1
   Autonomy and Cultural Identity in the Politics of the ME, Meeting Room
Lunch
Key note lectures Professor Asef Bayat
Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Working group session IV
   Religion and Politics, CR
   Towards Ethnography of Poetry and Law I, Coffee Room 2
   Islamic Law and the Family in Current Discussions I, Coffee Room 1
   Syriac studies in Helsinki & Karaite Studies in Finland, Meeting Room
Conference dinner in Restaurant Sipuli

Sunday, 23 September 2007

10.00 - 12.00

12.00 - 13.00
13.00 - 14.30

14.30 - 16.00

Working group session V
   New Interpretations on Early Reformists, CR
   Orientalism, Re-Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism, Coffee Room 2
   Islamic Law and the Family in Current Discussions II, Coffee Room 1
   Towards Ethnography of Poetry and Law II, Meeting Room
   Middle Eastern Economies in a Globalising World I, Seminar Room

Lunch
General meeting of the Society and coffee in the Collegium Common Room

Working group session VI
   Socio-economic evolution, cultural interpenetration and political challenges in Euro-Mediterranean environment, CR
   Modern History, Coffee Room 2
   Middle Eastern Economies in a Globalising World II, Seminar Room