The workshop, which is part of a larger project on Muslim integration and builds on AICGS' previous work on religion and politics, will be held on Thursday, October 8, 2009, from 9:00am to 3:30pm at the Service Employees International Union (1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036). A detailed workshop agenda is available here for your information. Please note that the proceedings will be off the record.

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