Tuesday, May 2, 2023 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. In-person Event Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E St. NW, Washington, DC 20052 Voesar Conference Room| Suite 412

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Islam provides an ideological framework for contesting the liberal order, not just for Muslims. Over the past two decades, many populist and far-right parties have based their profiles and agendas on the assumption that Islam is incompatible with the liberal values they claim to defend. Recently, there has been another trend: conservative forces are embracing Islam and its opposing stance towards liberalism as a means of critiquing the dominant economic, political, and cultural institutions. What are the implications of this shift for the political landscape in Europe and the position of Muslim communities within it?

Speaker

Gulnaz Sibgatullina is an Assistant Professor for Illiberal Regimes at the University of Amsterdam and visiting fellow at George Washington University. Her research focuses on Islam in Europe, contemporary Islamic thought, state-church relations, and minority issues in Russia. She holds a PhD from Leiden University and is the author of Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia (Brill Rodopi, 2020).

Discussant

Peter Mandaville is a Senior Advisor for the religion and inclusive societies team at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He is the author of the books Islam & Politics and Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma, in addition to several co-edited books, numerous journal articles, book chapters, op-eds and commentary pieces. In addition to his role at USIP, Mandaville is also a professor of international affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government and the director of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies, both at George Mason University. He is also a senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

Moderator

Marlene Laruelle is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; Director of the Russia Program, and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She works on political, social, and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene's research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia, nationhood construction in Central Asia, as well as the development of Russia's Arctic regions.

This event is on the record and open to the media.

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