International Conference on Post-Materialist and Holistic Science

09:30 – 09:35

Opening and Presentation of the Program

09:35 – 09:40

Recitation from the Holy Qur’an

Hafız Ahmet Kaya (Physical Attendance)

Inauguration Speeches

09:40 – 09:50

Prof. Dr. Nevzat TARHAN (Physical Attendance)

“Why Holistic Approach to Science?”

The Founding President of Üsküdar University

09.50 – 10.00

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Akgündüz (Physical Attendance)

“Positivism is Dying in Europe; People Seek Spirituality”

Rector of the Islamic University of Rotterdam, Netherlands

10.00 – 10.05

Fatmanur Zehra Aras (Physical Attendance)

“The Science that introduces the Creator” 

President of the Club, The Conscience of the Age 

10.05 – 10.15

Prof.Dr.Niyazi Beki (Physical Attendance)      

“The Holy Book Qur’an and the Book of the Universe”

Üsküdar University Institute for Sufi Studies Academic Staff

President of the Risale-i Nur Research Platform

FIRST SESSION:

Holistic Approach to Science (In Turkish)

10:15 – 10:25

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Alparslan Açıkgenç (Physical Attendance)

Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences,

Retired Faculty Member, Üsküdar University Department of Philosophy

10:25 – 10:45    

Prof. Dr. Alparslan Açıkgenç (Physical Attendance)

“What the Concept of Science in the Islamic Scientific Tradition Expresses in Today's Philosophy of Science” Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences,

Retired Faculty Member, Üsküdar University Department of Philosophy

10:45 – 11.05    

Prof. Dr. Yunus Çengel (Online Attendance)

“Life and Its Characteristics Based on Observations”

Member of Üsküdar University Board of Trustees

Nevada University, Reno, ABD

11:05 – 11:25

Prof. Dr. Bünyamin Duran (Online Attendance)

“From Secular Society to Post-Secular/Postmaterialist Society: Jürgen

Habermas” Manisa Celal Bayar University Retired Academician

11:25 – 11:45    

Prof. Dr. İbrahim Özdemir (Physical Attendance)

“Post-Materialist Science and Its Promise for Environmental Awareness: Role of

religious world views” Üsküdar University, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and

Social Sciences /Visiting professor at Clark University, Worcester, USA

11:45 – 12:05    

Prof. Dr. Sırrı Akbaba (Physical Attendance)

“A New Paradigm in Psychology”

Üsküdar University, President Advisor

12:05 – 12:25    

Dr. Cemil Şahinöz (Online Attendance)

“Multidisciplinary Science According to Bediuzzaman”

Association for Science, Integration & Religion Bielefeld, Germany

12:25-12:50

Q & A Session 

12:50-14:15

Noon Break

SECOND SESSION:

Post-Materyalist Scientific Approach-1 (In English)

14:15 – 14:25   

Moderator: Prof. Dr.  İbrahim Özdemir (Physical Attendance)

Üsküdar University, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 

/Visiting professor at Clark University, Worcester, USA

14:25 – 14:45    

Prof. Dr. Harald Walach (Physical Attendance)

“How Could a New Science of Consciousness Contribute to a Broadening of Science” Fellow at The Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, Founding Director of the Change Health Science Institute, Berlin, Germany

14:45 – 15:05

Prof.Dr. Necati Aydın (Physical Attendance)

“Towards a Holistic Understanding of Science and Education with Harfî

Approach” Vice President of the Institute of Integrated Knowledge, Hartford, CT,

USA

15:05- 15:25

Prof. Dr. Colin Paul Turner (Physical Attendance)

“Can Science and Islam Ever Be Reconciled? A Re-Evaluation”

Director at International Foundation for Muslim Theology, Durham, England

15:25 – 15:35

BREAK

THIRD SESSION:

Post-Materyalist Scientific Approach-2 (In English)

15:35 – 15:45

Moderator: Prof. Dr.  İbrahim Özdemir (Physical Attendance)

Üsküdar University, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 

/Visiting professor at Clark University, Worcester, USA

15:45 – 16:05

Prof. Dr. Marjorie Woollacott (Online Attendance)

“Spiritual Awakenings and Their Transformational Effects in Scientists and

Academics” Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

16:05 – 16:25

David Lorimer (Online Attendance)

“Gnosis in a Future Science of Consciousness”

Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, London, England

16:25 – 16:45                    

Dr Vasileios Basios (Online Attendance)

“Towards a Self-Reflective Science of the Origins” 

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

16:45 – 17:05    

Prof.Dr. Athena Despoina Potari (Online Attendance)

“A Call for a Renaissance of Spirit in the Humanities”

Fellow of Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), Harvard University, USA

17:05 – 17:25

Prof.Dr. Mohamed Bakari (Çevrimiçi Katılım)

“On Scientific Method” University of Nairobi, Kenya

17:25 – 17:45

Olaniyan Adeola Seleem (Online Attendance)

“Positivism Is Self-Defeating: An Environmentalist Score-Sheet of Scientific and

Technological Breakthroughs”

Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

17:45- 18:00      

Q&A Session  

18:00 – 18:10    

Closing Speech

Prof. Dr. İbrahim ÖZDEMİR (Physical Attendance)

Üsküdar University, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences/

Visiting professor at Clark University, Worcester, USA

18:10

Presenting Gifts, Photo shooting, and Closing

19:40

IFTAR