Remote rituals in virtual courts
Seminar
This seminar presentation examines the ritual dynamics of virtual court hearings. While audio-visual links for select court participants have been available for decades, in a virtual hearing all parties participate using a videoconferencing platform. Such hearings have proliferated during the…
Fraternal Enemies No More? Israel and the Gulf Monarchies: Beyond the Abraham Accords
Lecture
Professor Clive Jones will offer a nuanced appraisal of Israel-Gulf monarchies relations as they have developed historically and where they stand today beyond the recent Abraham Accords. He will explain how these relations have shaped a new regional order in the Middle East and its future prospects…
A Conversation Around Reciprocal Methodologies in Iranian Studies
Seminar
This joint talk is a review of eighteen months of ethnographical research and reciprocal collaboration between an Iranian socio-cultural anthropologist and one of the only ex-internee survivors of the Australian WWII internment camps who has written a autobiography about her experiences. She was…
Crown Princes, Oil, & Politics in the Persian Gulf: Introducing the Master of Middle East & Central Asian Studies
Webinar/Online
Do you want to understand the latest politics in the Persian Gulf region, home to almost 50% of global oil reserves? How are these oil-rich countries adapting to a renewable energy future? How are aging monarchs and powerful crown princes reshaping politics for a new generation, in a region where…
Jacqueline Kent: Biography - some things they don't tell you ...
Workshop
This talk will be in two parts. Drawing on my own experience as a biographer, I’d like to go through some of the pitfalls of researching and writing biography, and offer some suggestions about dealing with them. Firstly, there’s choice of subject, which can be fraught. What happens if you discover…
Saudi Arabia: an assessment of recent developments and future challenges
Meeting
Five years into Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has accelerated its domestic transformation. Notwithstanding the reforms undertaken to date, many challenges remain. This lecture will provide an overview of Saudi Arabia’s domestic and foreign policy priorities, as the country seeks to diversify its…
Listening to and from Palestine
Panel discussion
This panel will contextualise recent events in Palestine within a wider political, historical, and legal context. Panellists will highlight the implications and repercussions of what is happening across Palestine and the challenges they pose for peace and justice in the region.