Turkish-Australian transnational life writing with Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne
Lecture
Join Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne as she presents a lecture on her 2024 National Library Fellowship research into uncovering different forms of life writing produced in Australia following the Labour Migration Scheme between Turkey and Australia in 1967. Entry is free to this event but bookings are…
Before Islamic Finance: Muslim Banking in South Asia and the World, 1880-1975
Lecture
On this webinar event, Dr Mike O'Sullivan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) examines the varieties of, and challenges to, Muslim private banking in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. It studies this phenomenon against the backdrop of two processes: The first, are…
MAJLIS @ANU | Mosques, Madrassas, Mausoleums, Mountains, Manti – and fat tailed sheep: Travels and conversations in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Lecture
A combination of research fieldwork and private travel in 2023 and 2024 provided Margaret Norington opportunities for gaining perspectives on academic research and teaching in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, at the same time, allowing her to develop an understanding of the day-to-day lives…
Rosemarie Said Zahlan Asia-Palestine Mini Lecture Series | China and the Question of Palestine
Lecture
On popular Arabic-language Shi’ite websites, one can find an amusing apocryphal narration about the first meeting between Ahmad al-Shuqayiri, the first Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and Mao Zedong, sometime in the mid-1960s. To the former’s plea asking “to be taught…
CAIS Workshop | Reimagining Central Asian Migration: Past, Present and Future
Workshop
The workshop aims at understanding the patterns, motivations and modalities of migration from the Central Asian region to different destinations regionally and globally and imagining its possible futures. It will bring together leading scholars from Australia, Central Asia, Japan and Sweden for an…
Children's Book Launch: "Shirin and Amir and the Dragon Smoke" (2024) and "Nadia and the Can Do Crew" (2024)
Book launch
Discover the magic of storytelling with our new Children’s Creative Books on Bushfire Smoke and Health Protection! In response to the devastating 2019/20 bushfires, our dedicated researchers from CAIS, NCEPH and the School of Medicine and Psychology identified a gap in resources addressing…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Being A Transnational Muslim In Australia In An Era Of Hyper-Security
Lecture
The general response to the threat of terrorism has been to institute Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) policies and legislation that facilitates powerful regimes of surveillance. Whilst such legislation may be neutral in its construction, it implicitly and disproportionately targets and impacts…