Between the past and the future: Architecture and the making of heritage in developing countries
Webinar/Online
Development is a globalizing project that prompts shifts in historical consciousness. In developmental contexts, those shifts result in the conscious refashioning of the past to create novel and relevant cultural expressions. This selective use of the past in the present constitutes a heritage…
Ten Years after the Arab Spring: Results and Prospects
Webinar/Online
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, researched and taught in Beirut, Paris and Berlin, and has been since 2007 Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. His many books, published in over 15 languages, include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of…
CAIS Careers and Alumni Information Session
Seminar
The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies offers undergraduate, postgraduate and HDR programs that enable students to specialise in the study of the Middle East and Central Asia. CAIS programs include coursework subjects covering the politics, international relations, languages and cultures…
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Mapping its digital / tech future
Webinar/Online
The pandemic has had a far-reaching effect on the world. Nowhere is this more visible than in China's relations with the world, where the pandemic has become a supercharged bell weather for the state of Beijing's relations. This is equally true within Central Asia where the pandemic has accelerated…
CAIS careers night - 4 November 2020
Webinar/Online
The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies offers undergraduate, postgraduate and HDR programs that enable students to specialise in the study of the Middle East and Central Asia. CAIS programs include coursework subjects covering the politics, international relations, languages and cultures…
Knowing Terrorism: Perceptions of terrorist groups in Yemen and Iraq
Seminar
The international community spends billions of dollars each year on counterterrorism interventions in conflict-affected states, to reduce the threat posed by groups like al-Qa’ida and the Islamic State (ISIS). Evidence from field-based research suggests that these groups do not enjoy…
Walter Benjamin goes to Karbala: the proliferation of religious art and the degradation of the image’s power
Seminar
Walter Benjamin argued that in an age of mass technology the increased reproducibility of art objects would degrade their ‘authenticity’ and ‘aura’. Photographic and video technologies would democratise and open up access to the production of images. This would weaken the ‘cultic’ monopoly of…