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
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…
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…
Past Events
CAIS Public Lecture "Inside Iran: complex dynamics of Politics, Religion and Global Security"
Professor Mahjoob Zweiri (Director Gulf Studies. Qatar University), Dr Alam Saleh, Chair
This Pulbic Lecture focuses on Iran's political dynamics post 2009, just one year before the Arab Uprisings. It addresses Iran's return to more…
CAIS Public Lecture "Advanced Sultanism? The case of MBS and MBZ"
Professor Christopher M. Davidson
Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old…
Fraternal Enemies No More? Israel and the Gulf Monarchies: Beyond the Abraham Accords
Professor Clive Jones
Professor Clive Jones will offer a nuanced appraisal of Israel-Gulf monarchies relations as they have developed historically and where they stand…