Past events

11
Apr
2024

CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | Reimagining Palestine

Mainstream discussions on Palestine have long been dominated by voices that have sought to sideline, if not wholly invisibilise, Palestinian narrations...
04
Apr
2024

CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | Sinews of War and Trade, Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

The Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, known as the Houthis, announced last November its intervention on behalf of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip targeting...
21
Mar
2024

MAJLIS @ANU | Socio-cultural Policies as Performance Legitimation: The Case of the Gulf States

For over fifty years, Gulf studies has been dominated by a focus on oil that has distracted attention away from a nuanced understanding of state-society...
08
Mar
2024

International Women Day Lecture | Palestine is a Feminist Issue

At a UN International Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya in July 1985, leading Egyptian Arab feminist Nawal al-Saadawi was getting ready to give her talk...
07
Mar
2024

CAIS Virtual Panel Discussion | The South Africa ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel: Unpacking the Legal Implications and Future Compliance

On Friday, 26th of January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its interim ruling in the landmark case brought by South Africa against Israel...
22
Feb
2024

POSTPONED - MAJLIS @ANU | Empowered, Entrepreneurial, Exhausted: How Economic and Racial Inequality Shapes Arab Australian Girlhoods

Global economic crises coupled with popular culture notions of the ‘girlboss’ have conditioned young women to be entrepreneurial, independent and to see their...
14
Feb
2024

The Dragon Next Door: Demotic Discourses on China in Kazakhstan

Current research on Central Asia is disproportionately focused on issues of great power rivalry, viewing the region as a pawn caught between China, Russia...

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