CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal
Lecture
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial theories of relationality and strategies of refusal, both generatively and critically. While the…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Turkey in Transition: Authoritarian Drift, Public Protest, and the Future of Islamism
Lecture/seminar
This timely lecture will examine the political and ideological transformations unfolding in Turkey, with a focus on recent events such as the arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul and the ensuing protests. Are we witnessing the reactivation of civil society and a potential turning point in Turkish…
MAJLIS @ANU | War, Peace and Diplomacy in the South Caucasus
Lecture
Prof Hakan Yavuz will lead a discussion about the complex situation in the region which has experienced much conflict, political turbulence and strategic realignment in recent years. A lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains uncertain, and so is the future of the Trump Route for…
Postgraduate Study Options: Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Webinar
Webinar/Online
Transform your passion for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies into a postgraduate qualification at the ANU. The Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies is Australia’s premier location for studies in this field. With a high international standing, the Centre integrates the study of Middle Eastern…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | State Capitalism in the Arab Gulf Monarchies
Lecture/seminar
While scholars have understandably given emphasis to the role of oil and gas revenues in the political economy of the Arab Gulf monarchies — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — especially through rentier state theory (RST) and its variants, an…
A Master Class and Workshop with CAIS HDR Students and ECRs on “Why Political Economy Matters?”
Workshop
In this Master Class, Professor Matthew Gray will explain the importance of Political economy as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that explores the interplay between political power and economic structures and how these relationships shape and are shaped by national and global social and…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Regional Security Complex Theory and the Middle East
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will audit and discuss Barry Buzan and Ole Waever’s regional security complex theory (RSCT) as it relates to the Middle East. RSCT was developed over the 1990s and early 2000s around a central theme of securitization; that states are drawn together into regional or subregional clusters…