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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Past Events
Middle East Update No.4: US/ Israel War on Iran The Long Road Ahead (in-person + online)
Dr Nida Alahmad (University of Edinburgh, UK), Dr Mohammed Alsudairi (CAIS, ANU), Dr Jamil Mouawad (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Dr Eskander Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (University of St Andrew, UK) , Moderator & Discussant: Prof Karima Laachir (ANU)
As the US/Israel War on Iran enters into its third month, the regional and international orders are being reconfigured, and the global economic costs…
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…
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…