Dr David Tittensor

Muslim movements, Turkish politics and society, religion and development, and the Middle East. 

Research Affiliate, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership

Tittensor, David (forthcoming, 2013) ‘Making Modern Muslims: The Gülen Movement and the Ideal of Altin Nesil’ Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam,  November 25-26 Charles Sturt University, Sydney.

Tittensor, David (2012) ‘Gülen’s Schools and the Changing Nature of Islamic Mission: Exploring the Teacher-Student Dynamic’ MESA Annual Meeting, November 17-20,Denver, Colorado.

Tittensor, David & Michael, Michális (2012) ‘Turkey, Australia and the Middle East Quandary: Looking East, Looking West’ The Oceanic Conference on International Studies, July 18-20, University of Sydney.

Tittensor, David (2011) ‘The Changing Nature of Islamic Mission’. Paper presented at the Islam and Development Roundtable, December 13, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne.

Tittensor, David (2011) ‘Towards the Fourth Sector: Gülen’s Schools Between Philanthropy and Capitalism.’ Paper presented at ACFID - Universities Linkage Network Conference: An Australian Approach to Development? People, Practice and Policy, December 12-13, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne.

Tittensor, David & Anderson, Flora (2011) ‘European Identity and Turkey:
Reconstituting the Symbolic Order/Other. Paper presented at the Globalization, Illiberalism, the West and Islam: European and Australian Perspectives Conference, June 16-17 Prato, Italy.

Tittensor, David (2010). ‘An alternative pilgrimage: teachers doing hizmet abroad’.Paper presented at The Significance of Education for the Future: The Gülen Model, October 19-21  State Islamic Univerity of Indonesia

Tittensor, David (2009). ‘The Gülen Movement: Muslim Educational Activism in Turkey and Abroad’. Paper Presented at the PSI Postgraduate Symposium: Connecting Conversations, October 28 , Monash University, Melbourne.

Tittensor, David & Anderson, Flora (2009). ‘Turkey and the EU: Who’s the sick mannow?’ Paper presented at Young Researchers Conference: East and West together: Twenty Years After the Fall of Communism in Europe, September 23 , Monash University, Melbourne.

Tittensor, David (2009). ‘Essentially Evil? Takkiya and the New Muslim Dissemblers?’ Paper presented at the Islamophobia Conference,  July 18-19, Monash University, Melbourne.

Tittensor, David (2009). ‘Not Just Talking Heads: The Gülen Movement Translating Rhetoric into Action’ Paper presented at the From Dialogue to Collaboration: the Vision of Fethullah Gulen & Muslim-Christian Relations Conference, 15-16 July, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

Tittensor, David (2008). ‘Fethullah Gülen’s Schools of Love: A Muslim Model for the Future?’ Paper presented at the Second International Peace Conference, Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: Turkey, Germany & Europe,  October 23-26, Technische Universität Berlin.

Tittensor, David (2007). ‘US-Australia Alliance: asymmetry breeds symmetry’. Paper presented at the Australia in the Middle East & Central Asia: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan Workshop,  November 21-22, Australian National University, Canberra.

Series Editor, Muslims in Global Societies (Springer)

Steering Committee, International Development and Religion Unit, American Academy of Religion 

2008 Endeavour Award for Turkey ($50,000)