The CAIS Public Lecture Series features the research of staff, visiting fellows and research colleagues of the Centre. The series aims to present expert insight on both historical and contemporary issues pertaining to the Middle East, Central Asia and Islam covering a broad range of topics in current affairs, political science, international relations, history, sociology, languages and beyond. The CAIS Public Lectures are held regularly throughout the year. To be kept informed of the CAIS Public Lecture Series and other news or events at the Centre please email cais@anu.edu.au
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Upcoming Events
CAIS Public Lecture Series | (Neo-)Paganism in the Caucasus: The Ossetes Between Russian Orthodoxy and Salafi Islam
Richard Foltz, Professor in the Department of Religions and Cultures, Concordia University
Linguistic and cultural descendants of the ancient Scythians, the Ossetes of the central Caucasus have preserved numerous vestiges of archaic Iranian…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Tajik Regionalism and the Failure to Build a National Identity
Richard Foltz, Professor in the Department of Religions and Cultures, Concordia University
Culturally and economically decapitated by the Bolsheviks more than a century ago, Tajiks today have been left with the poorest of all the former…
Past Events
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Remembering the 1931-1933 Kazakh Famine: Memory and Representation
Berikbol Dukeyev, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University
This talk examines the evolving memory of the Kazakh famine of 1931–1933, one of the most devastating yet under-researched episodes of mass…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Regional Security Complex Theory and the Middle East
Prof Matthew Gray, Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University
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…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | State Capitalism in the Arab Gulf Monarchies
Prof Matthew Gray, Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University
While scholars have understandably given emphasis to the role of oil and gas revenues in the political economy of the Arab Gulf monarchies — Bahrain…