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 | Muslim Community Differences in Australia: A Sociological Analysis
Dr Jan A. Ali, Senior Lecturer in Islam and Modernity in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University
Muslims are the fastest growing community in Australia. They come from 183 different countries, a vast majority of them from South Asia followed by…
Book Discussion: "International Political Economy and the Global South" (2025)
Dr Zaynab El Bernoussi, Associate Professor of Political Science/Interim Chair at the Africa Institute
Dr Zaynab El Bernoussi will discuss her new co-authored book with Dr Jessie Moritz on International Political Economy and the Global South:…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Lisa Blaydes, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
How do autocratic regimes instrumentalize ascriptive identity to maintain political power? I argue that by enforcing status boundaries for…
Past Events
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Being A Transnational Muslim In Australia In An Era Of Hyper-Security
Adam Possamai
The general response to the threat of terrorism has been to institute Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) policies and legislation that facilitates…
CAIS Public Lecture | The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire
Masha Kirasirova, historian of exchanges between the Soviet Eurasia and the Middle East at NYU Abu Dhabi
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the…
CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | Erdogan's Islamism
In this lecture, Prof Hakan Yavuz will delve into the crises facing political Islam, using Erdogan's Turkey as a case study. He will start by…