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
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,…