Location:
Sheraton Grand Istanbul Atasehir
Barbaros Mahallesi, Mor Sümbül Sokak, No: 1
İstanbul, Türkiye

09:30 – 09:45 | Opening Speech-Dr. LL.M. Canan Sarı (Chair of the Executive Board, KADEM) (15 min)

09:45 – 10:40 | Opening Panel – Setting the Scene (KADEM, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Tbilisi University, Freiburg University)

• Moderator: Dr. Betül Özel Çiçek (KADEM)
  • 10:25 – 10:40: Opening Q&A (15 min)
  • Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Kevser Şerefoğlu Danış (Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University) – Shared Questions, Local Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing through the Ottoman Experience
  • Dr. Mansooreh Khalilizand (Freiburg University)- The Perspectival Nature of Knowledge and the Necessity of Reclaiming Women’s Voices.
  • Dr. Salome Bochorovishli (Tbilisi University) – The Significance of Studying Nineteenth-Century Muslim Women’s Intellectual Heritage

10:40 – 10:50 | Coffee Break (10 min)

10:50 – 11:45 | Keynote Lecture

• Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Ravza Altuntaş (Marmara University)
  • Prof. Dr. Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University Bloomington) – Genealogies of Women’s Rights Advocacy in Islam: Nineteenth‑Century Muslim Women Writers and Their Legacy (40 min)
  • 11:30 – 11:45: Q&A (15 min)

11:45 – 11:55 | Coffee Break (10 min)

11:55 – 13:15 | Session I

• Moderator: Dr. Esra Özdil Gümüş (Independent Researcher)
  • Prof. Dr. Kata Moser (Göttingen University) – Make the Silenced Speak: Contemporary Approaches to 19th Century Women’s Achievements (30 min)
  • 12:25 – 12:35: Q&A (10 min)
  • Dr. Reem Alrudainy (Kuwait University) – Women in Historical Narratives: New Approaches to Research and Interpretation (30 min)
  • 13:05 – 13:15: Q&A (10 min)

13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch Break (1 hour)

14:15 – 15:35 | Session II

• Moderator: Asst. Prof. Hatice Uğur (Marmara University)
  • Assoc. Prof. Mona Hassan (Duke University) – Educating and Elevating Women in West Africa: The Poetry, Scholarship, and Social Activism of Nana Asma’u (1793–1864) (30 min)
  • 14:45 – 14:55: Q&A (10 min)
  • Fatma Demirer (Marmara University) – The Tradition of Female‑led Islah in West Africa: A Historical Assessment of Nana Asma’u and Maryam Niasse (30 min)
  • 15:25 – 15:35: Q&A (10 min)

15:35 – 15:45 | Coffee Break (10 min)

15:45 – 17:45 | Session III

• Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Maryam Najafi (Halic University)
  • Dr. Mansooreh Khalilizand (Freiburg University) – Iranian Masculinity in Bibi Khanum Astarabadi’s The Vices of Men (30 min)
  • 16:15 – 16:25: Q&A (10 min)
  • Prof. Dr. Mirjam Künkler (Bordeaux University) – Female Islamic Authorities in 19th Century Iran and Women’s Agency in Tafsir and Fiqh (30 min)
  • 16:55 – 17:05: Q&A (10 min)
  • Dr. Fatemah Sadeghi (University College London) – From Ethical Instruction to Female Address: Goftār in Bibi Khanum Astarabadi’s Maʿāyeb al‑Rejāl (30 min)
  • 17:35 – 17:45: Q&A (10 min)

09:30 – 10:50 | Session IV

• Moderator: Assoc. Prof Hind Ahmad Zaki (University of Connecticut)
  • Dr. Harald Viersen (Radboud University) – Sympathy and Subversion: Reading Nabawiyya Musa’s “Woman and Work” in Light of Contemporary Ethical Discourse (30 min)

• • 10:00 – 10:10: Q&A (10 min)

• Dr. Salome Bochorovishli (Tbilisi University) – Zaynab Fawwaz’s Feminist Discourse in Al-Fatah (30 min)

• • 10:40 – 10:50: Q&A (10 min)
• 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee Break (10 min)

11:00 – 12:20 | Session V

• Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Mona Hassan (Duke University)

• • Prof. Dr. Nina Nurmila (UIII, Indonesia) – From Kartini (1879–1904) to KUPI: Indonesian Women’s Struggles for Educational Rights and Gender Justice (30 min)
  • 11:30 – 11:40: Q&A (10 min)
  • Dr. Esra Özdil Gümüş (Independent Researcher) – An Intellectual in the Shadow of “Notoriety”: The Gendered Asymmetry of Fame in the Case of Atiya Fyzee (30 min)
  • 12:10 – 12:20: Q&A (10 min)
• 12:20 – 12:30 | Coffee Break (10 min)

12:30 – 13:50 | Session VI

• Moderator: Dr. Mansooreh Khalilizand (Freiburg University)

• • Dr. Sevim Zehra Can Kaya (Istanbul University) – Halide Edib Adıvar: A Voice from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (30 min)
  • 13:00 – 13:10: Q&A (10 min)
  • Prof. Dr. Vusala Aghabayli (Azerbaijan University of Languages) & Dinara Mukhtarova (FSM) – Voices of Change: Hamida Javanshir and Sakina Akhundzadeh as Pioneers in Shaping Muslim Women’s Intellectual Agency in Azerbaijan (30 min)
  • 13:40 – 13:50: Q&A (10 min)
• 13:50 – 14:50 | Lunch Break (1 hour)

14:50 – 16:10 | Session VII

• Moderator: Dr. Zehra Çelik (Istanbul University)
  • Dr. Jawad Shah (Qatar Foundation) – The Female‑only Biographical Dictionary: Women’s Histories Between Tradition and Modernity (30 min)
  • 15:20 – 15:30: Q&A (10 min)

• • Prof. Dr. Sariya Cheruvallil Contractor (Coventry University) – Women of the Liverpool Muslim Institution, 1890–1908: Leading Muslim Intellectual Production in Victorian Britain (30 min)

• 16:00 – 16:10: Q&A (10 min)

• 16:10 – 16:20 | Coffee Break (10 min)

16:20 – 17:20 | Closing Session (60 min)