Program of the Conference

Regional Conference on Social Thought and Sociology in the Contemporary Middle East
Tehran (National Documents Library), Iran, 28 and 29 May 2011
The Program
First Day: 28 May 2011
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
Hall 1: Opening Session (English and Persian)
9:00- 9:10
Recite of The Holy Quran
9:10: 9:20
Welcome Speech: Mohamad_Amin Ghaneirad, President of Iranian Sociological Association
9:20- 9:30
Conference Report: Scientific Director of the Conference and the Former president of Iranian Sociological Association
9:30-10:00
Opening Lecturer: Michael Burawoy, President of International Sociological Association, What Should WeMean By Global Sociology?
10:00-10:30
Gholamabas Tavasoli, Emeritus Professor of Tehran University and First President of Iranian Sociological Association, The Formation of the Concept of “Civil Society” in the Thought of Muslim Thinkers in Middle East.
10:30-10:45
Questions and Comments from the floor.
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15
13:15
Hall 1:Local and Global in Social Science (English)
 Pannel Managers: Kavous Seidemami and Michael Burawoy
Sociology in the Periphery: Consumers or Producers of Theory?/ Tina Uys
Social Knowledge Production System in the Arab Ease: Publish Globally and Perish Locally Vs. Publish Locally and Perish Globally/ Sari Hanafi
Beyond National Boundaries and Western Science Hegemony: World Social Science and Humanities Network/ Michael Kuhn
Orientalism and “Oriental” Sociology/ Ebrahim Towfigh
 
Post-colonial Approach, Unfinished Critique, A Reflection on Methodology/ Amir Khorasani
13:00-14:30
Prayer and Lunch
 
 
16:30
 
Hall 1: Social Sciences and Sociology in the Middle East (English)
Managers: Farid Alatas and Taghi Azad Armaki
Towards a Sociology of Muslim Societies: An Outline/ Riaz Hasan
Alternative Approaches to Modern Social Thought in Turkey: Historical Analyses and Contemporary Questions/ ُSait Ozervarli
Political Sociology in Egypt/ Mustapha Kamal
Religious Social Theory as an Alternative Theory of Society/ Hassan Mohaddesi
The Text as a problem and a part of solution; Critique of the Text by Arab Muslim thinkers and its Social Indications/ Maghsood Farasatkhah
Hall 2: Social Thought and Sociology in the Middle East (Persian)
 Manager: Seyed Zia Hashemi
Sociology of Hajj: a Model for Formation a Regional Sociology/ Seyed Zia Hashemi
Radical Islamism and Social Interaction: Exploring the Lack of Social Theory/ Seyed abdolamir Nabavi
Intermediary Approach: A Theoretical Solution for the Problems of Middle East/ Sayyed Mohammad Mirsondosi
Obstacles of Development of Sociology in Contemporary Middle East/ Kamran Rabiei
Interactions and Challenges of the Sociology in Iran with World Sociology/ Mehdi mohamadi , Meisam malekshah
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00
19:00
Hall 1: Social Thought and Sociology in Iran and Islam (Persian - English)
Managers: Hamid Abdollahian and Farid Alatas
 
 
Methodology of Social Thought of Muslim World/ Hamid Parsania
Islamic Iran: Sponsor of new Paradigm in Sociology/ A. Shojaeezand
The Nature and Trend of Muslims Social Thought Compared with Social Thought of Modernity and Sociology/ Hossein Kachuian
The Theory of Family in the Thoughts of Muslim Thinkers/ Hosein Bostan
 Hall 2: Social Thought and Sociology in Iran and Islam (Persian)
 Manager: Yaghoub Mousavi
The Relation between Social Thought and Sociology/ Seyyed Mohamad Thaghafi
The Contribution of Historic Approach in Sociological Studies during Recent Decade in Iran/ Yaghoub Mousavi
The Project of Sociologization or local Sociology in the 1360s in Iran/ Abas Kazemi
Iranian Social Thoughts in form of Sociology/ Seyyed Mehdi Yousefi and Hesamedin Safari
The Social Thought in the Hafez's Poets: Implications for the concerns of Today’s Human being/ Ardeshir Mansouri
Second Day: 29 May 2011
8:30
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10:30
Hall 1: Social Thought and Sociology in Iran (English)
Manager: Shirin Ahmadnia and ُSait Ozervarli
Recite of The Holy Quran
The Possibilities for Alternative Sociologies in Iran/ Farid Alatas
Islam and Social Sciences: twofold problematical/ Sara Shariati
Iranian Sociology and Selective Translation of the Theories of Secularization/ Seyed Morteza Hashemi Madani
Social Thoughts in the Persian Literature/ B. Mohammadi
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00
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13:00
Hall 1: Social Thought and Sociology of Muslim Thinkers (English)
Manager: Riaz Hassan and Mohamad Hossein Panahi 
Explorations into the new methodology and political theory of Ibn Khaldun’s Umran Mind’s/ Mahmoud Dhaouadi
The Framework of a Sociology of Science: the Rasâ’il as an Epistemological Case/ Alparslan Acikgenc
Community and Responsibility ;Comparison Between Scheler, Iqbal, andTabatabaii/ Mohamad Tavakol
Allama Jafari on the Past, Present and Future in the Human Sciences/ Seyyed javad Miri
Does the modern development of the sociology of religion challenge and conflict with the philosophies of Morteza Motahhari and Said Nursi?/ Norton Mezvinsky
Hall 2: Social Thought of Muslim Thinkers (Persian)
Manager: Susan Bastani (Persian)
Alameh Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei’s Functional-Exchange Social Theory/ Gholamreza Sediq Ouraei
A Survey on Alameh Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei’s on the Place of Women in Islamic Theology: Heavenly Woman, Earthly Woman/ Sosan Bastani 
Intellectual Elements in the Seyyed Jamal-ad-Din Asadabadi’s Social Thought/Majid Kafi
 
Sociological Evaluation of Fathollah Gulen’s Social Thought/ Mohamad Fekri, and Mina Inanoo
 
Challenges of Social Thought and Knowledge in Islam World (From the Viewpoint of Mohammed Arkoun and Mohammed Abed al-Jabri)/ Younes Nourbaksh ….
13:00- 14:30- Prayer and Lunch
 
14:30
16:30
Hall 1: Social Sciences and Problems of Contemporary Middle East (English)
Managers: Naser Fakuhi and Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Political Perspectives of the New Middle East and the Role of Social Sciences/ Naser Fakouhi
Three Iranian, Egyptian, and Turk worlds in Confrontation with Modernity/ Hadi Khaniki
Riaz Hassan, Mustapha Kamal, ُSait Ozervarli
 
Hall 2: Social Sciences and Problems of Contemporary Middle East (Persian)
Manager: Ali Mohammad Hazeri
Theoretical Reflection on Women Movement in Islamic Countries/ Ali Mohammad Hazeri
Salafism and Social Identity in Kurdestan of Iran/ Mansooreh Azam Azadeh, hawjin baghali
Islamic Revolution of Iran and Change of RevolutionTheories/ Alireza Samiee Esfahani
The Foundation of Poverty and Richness of Social Thought in Contemporary Iran/ Afsane Kamali
Hesham Sharabi and Cultural Critique of Arab Society/ Ahmad Dorosti
Hall 1: Closing Session (English)
 Manager: Seyyed Hosein Serajzade
19:00-17:00
Michael Burawoy, Tina Uys, Sari Hanafi, Farid Alatas, Mohamad Amin Ghaneirad

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