Digital Lecture Series „Islamismus in Politik und Gesellschaft“ (SoSe 2025)
Islamism is currently one of the greatest challenges to democracy. Not because Islamist groups necessarily threaten with violence, but because the goal of Islamist movements is always the establishment of a state governed by Islamic law. Young people are deliberately recruited; many end up in radicalism. Islamist movements exploit democratic freedoms with the aim of ultimately abolishing this very democracy and freedom rights. Women's rights and the rights of dissenters in such a state only exist within the framework of Sharia law. This makes Islamism a politically extremist ideology.
While terrorist attacks by jihadist movements are often a topic in the media, the more dangerous Islamism as political extremism receives far less attention. The lecture series "Dimensions of Islamism in Society and State" aims to shed light on five evenings on how Islamist forces are effective in the state and society and what counter-strategies and solutions might look like.
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Scientific Organizers
Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher
Events of the Digital Lecture Series
Islamismus als politische Ideologie: Einführung, Begriffserklärung, Ideologie
15.05.2025 | 19:00 Uhr – 20:30 Uhr | virtuell
PD Dr. Evelyn Bokler-VölkelDeputy Director of the Research Center for Islam and Politics at the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster
PD Dr. Evelyn Bokler-Völkel conducts research in the field of comparative extremism in the MENA region and in Germany with a focus on Islamism. She also studies the political systems of the MENA region and their legitimization of political rule. She is deputy head of the research unit “Islam and Politics” at the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster, has been a lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn since 2018 and has been a private lecturer and fellow at CASSIS since 2023. Prior to this, she worked at the Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V. and established an educational organization for NRW from 2015 until her return to academia and her habilitation in 2023 on the dictatorship of the “Islamic State”.
Islamismus in der Politik & als innenpolitische Bedrohung
22. Mai 2025 | 19:00 Uhr – 20:30 Uhr | virtuell
Gülden Hennemann
Head of Operative Unit Extremism in the Prison System (Bavaria)
Gülden Hennemann is a political scientist and worked at the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 2009 to 2015. From 2015 to 2020, she was responsible for counter-extremism in prisons at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. She currently heads the Central Coordination Office for Counter-Extremism Measures (ZKE) and the Operative Unit for Counter-Extremism (OpEEx) in the Bavarian prison system, which is based there. She has many years of experience in recognizing extremist radicalization processes and developing effective counter-strategies. She also works as a speaker on counter-extremism, Turkish extremism and Islamism.
Islamismus in Schulen & Radikalisierung von jungen Menschen
05. Juni 2025 | 19:00 Uhr – 20:30 Uhr | virtuell
PD Dr. Nina Käsehage
Religious Studies Scholar, University of Frankfurt
PD Dr. Nina Käsehage is a historian and religious studies scholar and currently heads the project “The Global Conflict in the Classroom (GKiK) - Anti-Semitism meets Anti-Muslim Racism” at the House of Religions in Hanover. In 2023, she completed her habilitation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt with the qualitative longitudinal study “The Young Sahaba - The Religious Socialization of Children and Adolescents in the Jihadist Milieu” (Kohlhammer). Her research focuses on emotion, conversion and violence research, the psychology and sociology of religion and gender-sensitive approaches to the prevention of violent extremism (PVE).
lsamismus in wissenschaftlichen Diskursen & Delegitimierung öffentlicher Debatten
26. Juni 2025 | 19:00 Uhr – 20:30 Uhr | virtuell
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial Order, University of Frankfurt
Head of Research Center Global Islam, University of Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter is a German ethnologist. She has taught and researched at the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Universities of Mainz and Trier, among others. In 2004, she was appointed to the Chair of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau and in 2008 to the professorship for “Ethnology of Colonial and Postcolonial Orders” (W3) at Goethe University Frankfurt. There she was Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders” for 11 years and has headed the Frankfurt Research Center Global Islam since 2014. In addition to other voluntary activities, she is a member of the board of the German Orient Institute, a member of the Senate of the German National Foundation and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
Islamismus in der europäischen Dimension & ausländische Einflussnahme
10. Juli 2025 | 19:00 Uhr – 20:30 Uhr | virtuell
PD Mag. Dr. Dr. habil. Hüseyin Çiçek
Univ.-Ass. (Post doc), Institute for Islamic-Theological Studies, University of Vienna
Associate Member, Research Center for Islam and Law in Europe, FAU
PD Mag. Dr. Dr. habil. Hüseyin Çiçek is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Sigmund Freud University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Vienna and Associate Fellow at the Academy for International Affairs in Bonn. He habilitated in 2021 with a thesis on religion, violence and minorities at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research focuses on anti-Semitism, extremism, radicalization, migration and religious-political ideologies in a global context. He publishes regularly in international journals and is active in various scientific and security policy committees.
Links
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- https://www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/de/ueber-uns/alle-mitarbeiter/copy_of_fels
- https://christineschirrmacher.info