Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts from Germany, Europe, and the United States, this workshop discusses socio-economic, political, and foreign policy dimensions of Muslim integration in the U.S. and in Germany.
AICGS is a Washington-based, independent, non-profit public policy organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University that works in Germany and the United States to address current and emerging policy challenges in the German-American and transatlantic relationships.
Please contact Jessica Riester to RSVP by email (jriester@aicgs.org) or phone (202-332-9312 ext.125) or if you have any questions. We hope you will be able to join us for what we believe will be an engaging and thoughtful discussion of very timely issues.
To view the workshop agenda, please click here.
9:00-9:15am Introductions by Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman, AICGS
9:15-10:45am Socio-economic Facets of Integration
Speakers: Zahid H. Bukhari, Georgetown University
Raida Chbib, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Scott Bittle, Public Agenda
Gönül Tol, Middle East Institute
Moderator: Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation
10:45-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00-12:30am Domestic Integration Policies
Speakers: Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Sahar Aziz, Project on National Security & Muslim Studies
Mounir Azzaoui, Georgetown University / RWTH Aachen
Mathias Rohe, Universität Erlangen
Moderator: Kirsten Verclas, AICGS
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
Keynote Speaker: Paul Monteiro, The White House
1:30-3:15pm Integration and its Influences on Foreign Policy
Speakers: Heidrun Tempel, German Foreign Office
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation
Jochen Hippler, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Rutgers University
Radwan Masmoudi, Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy
Moderator: Lily Gardner Feldman, AICGS |