09:00-09:20 Welcome & Introduction – Morten Valbjørn & Jeroen Gunning

09:20-11:00 Panel 1: Social Theory and Comparing Shia/Sunni Islamism
Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus U.): Expanding the case universe beyond Sunni-centrism - 3 modes of contributions from Shia Islamists
Fanar Haddad (Copenhagen U.): Shia Rule Is a Reality in Iraq. “Shia Politics” Needs a New Definition
Jeroen Gunning (KCL): Fielding Hamas and the Sadrists: The role of Sunni versus Shia religious field dynamics in shaping forms of authority and leadership of armed Islamist movements engaged in politics

11:00-11:25 Break

11:25-13:05 Panel 2: Electoral and Everyday Islamism
Courtney Freer (Emory U.): An Islamist Disadvantage? Revisiting Electoral Outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East
Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus U.): What we talk about when we talk about Islamism
Jeroen Gunning (KCL): Comparing Sunni and Shia Geographies of ‘Everyday Islamistness’ in Greater Beirut

13:05-14:05 Lunch

14:05-15:45 Panel 3: Armed Islamism
Toby Matthiesen (Bristol U.): How to explain the relative strength of National-Communal Islamism: Bringing community and state sponsorship back in
Raphaël Lefèvre (Bristol U): The Sunni Bias: New Data on Armed Shia Islamists and Implications for Research on Islamist Insurgencies & When
Transnationalism is not Global: Dynamics of Armed Transnational Shi’a Islamist Groups
Younes Saramifar (Vrije U. Amsterdam): Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from the Shia Militancy

15:45-16:15 Break

16:15-17:15 "Reversed Q&A": What – if anything – is so Shia about Shia Islamists and in which way can “the Other Islamists” enrich the broader scholarly debates on Islamism