Middle East Update No.4: US/ Israel War on Iran The Long Road Ahead (in-person + online)
Panel discussion
As the US/Israel War on Iran enters into its third month, the regional and international orders are being reconfigured, and the global economic costs keep mounting. The gathered Panellists/Middle East scholars will offer critical insights and updates on the stances of key states and discuss…
Middle East Update No.3: The Strait of Hormuz, Australian Energy Security & Supply Chain Resilience
Panel discussion
With the Strait of Hormuz now a flashpoint in the US/Israel-Iran conflict, global energy markets face unprecedented disruption. What does this mean for Australia's energy security and the resilience of critical supply chains?This panel brings together leading experts on Gulf energy, Indo-Pacific…
2nd Panel Discussion: US/ Israel War on Iran
Lecture
Photo Credit: Mehdi Khoshnejad (Pexels)A month on, multiple indicators point to how the US/ Israel War on Iran represents not a regional confrontation but a global structural shock with serious military, economic and geopolitical implications.Across the region but particularly in Iran and Lebanon,…
A Master Class and Workshop with CAIS HDR Students and ECRs on Encouraging Interdisciplinarity: Reality or Lip-Service?
Workshop
For decades now "interdisciplinarity" has been a catchword in Western academia. University administrators have ostensibly encouraged scholars to interact with colleagues across disciplines. But has this really played out in practice, or has it remained mostly a matter of lip service? Historian…
US/ Israel War on Iran: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion
The ongoing US/Israel War on Iran has grave human consequences that deeply threaten regional & global peace1,500+ people reportedly killed in Iran so far, plus 3+ million displaced.1000+ people have been killed in Lebanon and 1+ million displaced.Iranian retaliatory strikes have…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Tajik Regionalism and the Failure to Build a National Identity
Lecture/seminar
Culturally and economically decapitated by the Bolsheviks more than a century ago, Tajiks today have been left with the poorest of all the former Soviet republics. Richard Foltz, author of A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, discusses how neither generations of nationalist intellectuals…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | (Neo-)Paganism in the Caucasus: The Ossetes Between Russian Orthodoxy and Salafi Islam
Lecture/seminar
Linguistic and cultural descendants of the ancient Scythians, the Ossetes of the central Caucasus have preserved numerous vestiges of archaic Iranian rituals and beliefs. In recent years their distinctive ancestral practices have come under fire from Christian and Muslim authorities alike who…