The two keynote speakers, Asef Bayat and Abdolkarim Soroush, at the School of Religion's conference on "Islamism and Post-Islamism: Religious and Political Transformations in Muslim Societies" were interviewed in the Kingston Whig Standard - see the .
The conference itself drew large crowds who came to hear and dialogue with presenters from around North America as well as Turkey, Qatar, France, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and the United Kingdom.