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The “East and West Encounters: The
Gulen Movement” conference was held on Dec. 4-6 and was organized by the
Pacifica Institute, a Turkish-American institution established by the Turkish community in the Los Angeles area. The conference was sponsored by the University of Southern California's Office of Religious Life, the International Education Center at Santa Monica College, the department of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, the department of religious studies at Humboldt University and the department of religious studies at Whittier College. The
conference was held on the USC campus.
A very special reception and dinner was held for the three-day event, "The International Conference on East and West Encounters: The Gulen Movement", which will feature scholars of different backgrounds and will aim to stimulate ideas and ways to continue the wisdom of Turkish Muslim scholar
Fethullah Gulen to find peace amongst all people and societies.
