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…
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…
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…
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…
A Master Class and Workshop with CAIS HDR Students and ECRs on “Researching Social and Political Movements in the Middle East and Central Asia"
Workshop
This interactive workshop will explore theoretical and methodological approaches to studying Islamic social and political movements in the Middle East and Central Asia. How and under what structural, political, and cultural conditions does Islamism emerge as an oppositional identity? What…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Islam in a Globalised World: Local, National, and International Dimensions
Lecture/seminar
What is the role of Islam as a lived, embodied faith in shaping individual subjectivities, collective identities, and political practices across different spatial scales? This lecture will critically examine the vernacularization of Islam—how global Islamic discourses are translated, localized, and…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Lecture/seminar
How do autocratic regimes instrumentalize ascriptive identity to maintain political power? I argue that by enforcing status boundaries for privileged groups, status rewards act as a club good for those in a regime's coalition. To demonstrate the empirical implications of these ideas, I…