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 | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal
Dr Jasmine K. Gani, Assistant Professor of International Relations Theory at the London School of Economics and Politics Science
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory…
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…
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…
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…