MAJLIS @ANU | Mosques, Madrassas, Mausoleums, Mountains, Manti – and fat tailed sheep: Travels and conversations in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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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
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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
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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…
CAIS Public Lecture | The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire
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In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal “East”—primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus—with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, and progress toward socialism in the “foreign…
The Launch of Middle East and Central Asia Futurescapes Academic Network (MECAFAN)
Workshop
Join us for the launch of Middle East and Central Asia Futurescapes Academic Network (MECAFAN), a new initiative by the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies to bring together scholars and practitioners to examine the tangible and intangible ways by which the region is being reshaped and re-…