{"id":12519,"date":"2009-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2009\/04\/29\/conference-marks-30th-anniversary-of-the-iranian-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:58:38","slug":"conference-marks-30th-anniversary-of-the-iranian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2009\/04\/29\/conference-marks-30th-anniversary-of-the-iranian-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference marks 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 35 international experts on religion, secularism and Iran from Canada, Britain, France, the US, Holland, Iran, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories&nbsp;will meet at York University May 1 to 3 for the conference, Retreat of the Secular? Challenges of Religious Fundamentalism.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers will examine the prospects for separation of religion and state and the evolution of secularist thought in Muslim-majority countries, particularly in Iran. Since the 1979 revolution, when Iran&rsquo;s monarchy was overthrown and replaced with an Islamic republic led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran has lived under a strict religious government.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We hope that this international conference will contribute to the timely concerns and debates over the evolution of the very concept of secularism,&rdquo; says conference co-organizer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bloodstone.atkinson.yorku.ca\/projects\/researchak\/people.nsf\/researcherprofile?readform&amp;shortname=srahnema\" rel=\"noopener\">Saeed Rahnema<\/a>, a professor of political science at York. &ldquo;In the past, secularism meant anti-religiosity. But more and more the need for mutual tolerance between religion and secularism in the public sphere, outside the state sphere, is recognized.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Conference co-organizer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bloodstone.atkinson.yorku.ca\/projects\/researchak\/people.nsf\/researcherprofile?readform&amp;shortname=moghissi\" rel=\"noopener\">Haideh Moghissi<\/a>, a professor of sociology at York, says: &ldquo;The special attention given to the experience of Iran is to provide the opportunity to debate and analyze why while &lsquo;Islamic&rsquo; Iran represents a role model to many Islamists around the world, inside the country calls for the separation of religion from the state have become far more widespread than in the past.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The scholars and authors who will attend the conference will speak about their fields of expertise, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>redefining secularism in recognition of the interdependence of the religious and secular domains; <\/li>\n<li>problems and prospects for democratization in post-revolutionary Iran, and in Pakistan,&nbsp;<span>Bangladesh and Palestine;<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>complexities of secularism in Turkey; <\/li>\n<li>the women&rsquo;s movement for gender equality in Muslim-majority societies; <\/li>\n<li>the growing gap between the pro-secular Iranians and the anti-secular state; <\/li>\n<li>accommodating religious and ethnic differences in modern states that promise equal rights; <\/li>\n<li>US foreign policy and fundamentalism; <\/li>\n<li>a&nbsp;wave of violence against workers, students and others in Iran; <\/li>\n<li>and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meydaan.com\/english\/default.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop Stoning Forever Campaign<\/a> against violent state control over women&rsquo;s sexuality. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A panel in Farsi, Iranian Politics and Society Today, will close the conference on Sunday. Simultaneous translation (Farsi\/English) will be provided throughout the three-day conference.<\/p>\n<p>Retreat of the Secular? Challenges of Religious Fundamentalism will take place Friday, May 1 to Sunday, May 3 in the Executive Learning Centre's private dining room in the Seymour Schulich Building on York's Keele campus.<\/p>\n<p>To view the conference program, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/special\/secularism_conf._program.doc\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. To view a full list of conference paper abstracts and biographies of presenters, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/special\/conference_booklet_2_f.doc\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conference on secularism and fundamentalism to mark the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution brings renowned international academics and authors to York University...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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