Programm
18th June 2026
8:45 am. – 9:10 am. – Welcome of Participants
9:10 am. – 9:30 am. – Introduction and Conceptual Framework
by Annalaura Turiano (IREMAM, CNRS, amU, ANR PredicMO) and Esther Moeller (Marburg
University)
9:30 am. – 11:00 am. – Panel 1 – Spiritual Engagement and Economic Rationales: The
Entangled Dynamics of Welfare and Preaching
Chair: Nazan Maksudyan (Centre Marc Bloch)
9:30 am. – 10:15 am. – Gabriel Doyle (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian
Civilizations and the Istanbul Research Institute)
“Not a single penny of my lottery earnings is present inside this mosque”: Islamic Morality
and Urban Patronage in 1960s Istanbul
10:15 am. – 11:00 am. – Tea Pitiurishvili (Tbilisi State University)
Seeking the Path: Ne’matullahia Order’s One Branch from Traditional Mysticism to a
Socially Engaged Form of Sufism
11:00 am. – 11:30 am. – Coffee break
11:30 am. – 1:00 pm. – Panel 2 – The Moral Politics of Humanitarianism
Chair: Giulia Scalettaris (Centre Marc Bloch)
11:30 am. – 12:15 pm. – Carla Tiefenbacher (University of Köln)
“May God reward us for our efforts”: Voluntourism, Humanitarian Crises, and How to
Preach Catholicism in the Spanish-Moroccan Borderlands
12:15 pm. – 1:00 pm. – Estella Carpi (University College London)
The Moral Politics of Faith-Inspired Humanitarianism in Lebanon
1:00 pm. – 2:00 pm. – Lunch
2:00 pm. – 3:30 pm. – Panel 3 – Faith-Based Humanitarianism and Soft Power
Chair: Karène Sanchez Summerer (University of Groningen)
2:00 pm. – 2:45 pm. – Natalia Liviero (Florida International University)
Faith-Based Development and Humanitarian Aid in the Middle East: A Case Study of Caritas
Jordan and Caritas Lebanon
2:45 pm. – 3:30 pm. – William Guerraiche (Abrahamic Family House, Abu Dhabi)
The Emirates: The Religious Dimension of Humanitarian Aid
3:30 pm. – 4:00 pm. – Coffee break
4:00 pm. – 5:30 pm. – Panel 4 – Moral Grammars, Religious Norms
Chair: Norig Neveu (IREMAM, CNRS, amU)
4:00 pm. – 4:45 pm. – Marie Kortam (Beyond Compliance Consortium – University of
York & War Child Alliance)
Religious Norms, Shari’a, and the Moral Regulation of Harm in Humanitarian Crisis
Settings
4:45 pm. – 5:30 pm. – Sebastian Willert (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and
Culture)
Of Jewish Sanctuary and Scholarship: Preaching as a Catalyst for Academic
Humanitarianism in Palestine, 1933–1945
5:30 pm. – 6:00 pm. – Final discussion
7:00 pm. – Dinner at Restaurant Lungomare (Krausenstraße 11, Berlin)
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19th June 2026
9:00 am. – 10:30 am. – Panel 5 – Patterns of “Preaching Development”
Chair: Annalaura Turiano (IREMAM, CNRS, amU, ANR PredicMO)
9:00 am. – 9:45 am. – Zeaad Yaghi (American University of Beirut)
The Rise and Fall of Le Plan Vert: On French-Catholic State Planning and Agricultural
Development in Postcolonial Rural Lebanon 1959–1970
9:45 am. – 10:30 am. – Mara Leichtman (Michigan State University)
Preaching Kuwaiti Shi‘i Islamic Humanitarianism in East Africa
10:30 am. – 11:00 am. – Coffee break
11:00 am. – 1:15 pm. – Panel 6 – Discursive Registers: Between Reformism and Moral
Rhetorics
Chair: Malak Labib (Centre Marc Bloch, Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
11:00 am. – 11:45 am. – Seda Altuğ (University of Boğazıcı)
Many Ways of Preaching in French-Syria: Appeals of Dominican Missionaries and
Entreaties of Locals (1936–1946)
11:45 am. – 12:30 pm. – Foued Ghorbali (Gafsa University)
Prêcher en aidant: pratiques socio-humanitaires, autorité religieuse et circulations
transnationales en Tunisie contemporaine
12:30 pm. – 1:15 pm. – Marie Levant (Ifpo, Forum Basiliense Resident Fellow at the
University of Basel)
Transnational Catholic Aid to Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon (1948–1958): Moral Norms,
Ecclesial Imperatives, and Pastoral Preaching
1:15 pm. – 2:00 pm. – Lunch
2:00 pm. – 3:00 pm. – Review of the Second Day and Publication Prospects