Majlis Talk: The Muslims Who Wanted Less Religion
Lecture/seminar
MAJLIS @ ANUTHE MUSLIMS WHO WANTED LESS RELIGION: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF SECULARISM IN THE ISLAMIC WORLDSecularism in Muslim societies is often described as an essentially Western idea, imported through colonialism or imposed by modernising states. Yet this familiar narrative overlooks the Muslim…
Public Lecture: Can Oil Liberate Women?
Lecture
Can Oil Liberate Women? Gender, Resource Wealth and the Paradox of ModernisationWhat happens when sudden resource wealth transforms a society faster than its social and political institutions can adapt? This talk explores this question through the relationship between oil, modernisation, and women…
Final PhD Presentation: The Rise of Iran as a Regional Power
Lecture/seminar
Title: Middle East Hegemony: The Rise of Iran as a Regional PowerPresenter: Mohd Amirul Asraf bin OthmanAbstract: Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has slowly emerged as a key regional player in the Middle East despite facing isolationism, wars and political and economic sanctions. Some…
The Incoming Tide: Stories of Yawuru authority and wirli-wirli-ngan (fishing) at Jangu/Thangoo station
Seminar
Histories of northern Australian sheep and cattle stations are increasingly attuned to their Aboriginal histories, presenting narratives that tend to the ways Aboriginal people have made places for themselves in a new dispensation. This paper takes up some of these Aboriginal histories by…
Fiery Tales: The correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky
Book launch
Join Dr Ann-Marie Priest as she discusses her latest book Fiery Tales: The correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky (Monash University Publishing) with Dr Susan Lever.Ann-Marie Priest is the author of My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood, which won the 2023 National Biography Award…
CAIS Public Lecture Series: The Afterlives of Ottoman Objects
Lecture/seminar
The Afterlives of Ottoman Objects: Alternative Forms of Muslim Citizenship in TurkeyOttoman objects, art traditions, and social practices occupy a contested place in Turkish political life, shaped by the republic’s selective rupture with its Ottoman past and more recent projects of civilisational…
Six Conservative Australian Feminists, 1901-1970: Towards a Collective Biography
Seminar
Content warning: this presentation will refer to eugenics.To steal from E.P. Thompson in a way he would have deplored, I am seeking to rescue conservative feminists from the enormous condescension of posterity! Although they have had greater scholarly attention in recent years, we know more about…