BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250508T055818EDT-5652jUohvo@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250508T095818Z DESCRIPTION:Dr. James Harrington will talk about how the political trial of Fethullah Gülen\, a moderate Turkish religious leader\, helped to expand civil liberties and strengthen democracy in Turkey. The trial began in 200 0 in an Ankara State security court and ended in 2008 in an appeals court in Gülen's favor. His book explores Gülen's trial\, examines the evolving process of Turkey's efforts to enter the European Union\, and discusses wa ys that the EU's insistence on expanding civil liberties in Turkey and ref orming the judicial system affected the outcome of the trial (and vice ver sa). As a coda\, the book considers unsuccessful efforts to block Gülen's application for immigrant status in the United States as a religious schol ar\, which occurred during the same time as his political trial in Turkey. He will also talk about the Hizmet (Gulen) Movement\, which originated in 1970s' Turkey as a faith-inspired initiative to improve educational oppor tunities for a local community\; and which since then\, has grown into a t ransnational educational\, inter-cultural and interfaith movement. RSVP a t fkala [at] interculturaldialog.com About the speaker James C. Harringt on\, a human rights attorney with nearly four decades of experience\, is f ounder and director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. He graduated from t he School of Law at the University of Detroit\, from where he also holds a Masters in philosophy. He has taught at the University of Texas School of Law as an adjunct professor for twenty-six years. Harrington has handled landmark civil rights cases\, written and published widely\, and served on human rights delegations in different areas of the world. In 1990\, Harr ington founded the Texas Civil Rights Project\, a statewide community-base d\, non-profit foundation that promotes social\, racial\, and economic jus tice and civil liberty\, through litigation and public education\, for low income and poor persons. Harrington is author of Wrestling with Free Spe ech\, Religious Freedom\, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials an d Times of Fethullah Gülen\, The Texas Bill of Rights: A Commentary and Li tigation Manual\, “¡Alto a la Impunidad! Is There Legal Relief for the Mur ders of Women in Ciudad Juárez?\,” myriad law review articles\, and a wide assortment of op-ed pieces and book reviews. Harrington has served on hu man rights delegations to Honduras and Nicaragua (during the contra war)\, Chile (during Pinochet regime)\, Israel and Palestinian territories\, Gua temala\, and México (Chiapas)\, and visited Turkey as part of an interfait h group. Organized by the 51Թ Centre for Human Rights & Legal Plura lism\, and the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law\ , with the participation of the Intercultural Dialogue Institute Montreal (IDI Montreal). RSVP at fkala [at] interculturaldialog.com DTSTART:20121017T163000Z DTEND:20121017T180000Z LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:Wrestling with Free Speech\, Religious Freedom\, and Democracy in T urkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gülen URL:/law/channels/event/wrestling-free-speech-religiou s-freedom-and-democracy-turkey-political-trials-and-tim END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR