9.30-9.45: Coffee and pastries

9.45-11.15:
Panel 4: Building Commonality and Difference Through Time
Chair: Philip Robins

Henry Clements: A Very Christian Crisis in the Late Ottoman Empire

Elvire Corboz: Shi‘i Discourses on Islamic Unity: Reconfiguring Majority-Minority
Relations Within Islam

Vefa Erginbas: Bridging the Sunni-Shi‘ite Divide: A Historical Look at the
Appropriation of the Twelve Imams in the Ottoman Empire

Hussein Abou Saleh: The Dynamics of Sectarianism Between the Shi‘ite and the
‘Alawite community of Syria

11.30-13.00: Panel 5: Variations of Sectarianisation and Sectarian Mobilisations
Chair: Eugene Rogan

Toby Dodge: The Theory and Practice of Sectarian Mobilisation in Iraq

Fred Lawson: Why Did the Syrian Uprising Become Sectarian?

Ceren Lord: Sectarianised Securitisation and Alevi Mobilisation in Turkey in the Post-
2011 Era

Keiko Sakai: Competing for Victimhood and Nationhood: Sectarianism in Post-War
Iraq as a Legitimisation of the Right to Rebel

13.00-14.00: Lunch (provided for speakers)

14.00-15.30: Panel 6: Religious Actors in Negotiating the Nation
Chair: Ceren Lord

Z. Asli Elitsoy: Civil Friday Prayers: A Kurdish Challenge to the Religious Political
Power in Turkey

Yoko Uno: ‘Religion is a Wall’ for What? Riza Nur’s Thought on Turkish Nationalism
and Religious Authority in the Early Republican Period

David Warren: Cleansing the Nation of the ‘Dogs of Hell’: Nationalist Legal
Reasoning Among the Azhari ‘Ulama in Support of the 2013 Egyptian Coup
and its Bloody Aftermath

Noor Zehra Zaid: From Shi‘as to Iraqis, and Pakistanis to Shi‘as: Nationalism,
Transnationalism and Sectarianism in Modern Iraq

15.45-17.15: Panel 7: Religious Actors in Sectarian Politics
Chair: Justin Jones

Amaan Merali: Persecution and Partnership: The Ottomans and the Aga Khan Before
the Great War

Alex Henley: Sectarianisation as the Construction of ‘Religion’: The Case of
‘Religious Leaders’ in Lebanon

Hratch Tchilingirian: Secularising Effects of Sectarianism: The Case of the Armenian
Church in the Middle East During the Cold War Era

Anthony O’Mahony: Eastern Christian Perspectives on Religion and Politics in
Modern Syria: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch after 2000