CAIS Public Lecture "Inside Iran: complex dynamics of Politics, Religion and Global Security"
Lecture
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 political conservatism, which has contributed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2015. Professor Zweiri…
Bleeding Off the Page: A Cultural History of the Political Memoir in Australia
Seminar
Since the early 1990s, forms of political life writing have proliferated rapidly in Australia. Formerly a rarity, the memoirs and autobiographies of federal Members of Parliament are now a ubiquitous product in national political discourse, and in the local literary marketplace. I note that…
Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era.
Seminar
Join Natali Valdez for her talk, "Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era". Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health risks for future generations.…
March Majlis - Xinjiang in 2022: After Five Years of Crackdown
Seminar
After five years of intense crackdown, the Xinjiang region in Western China has been entirely transformed. The region that previously hosted a unique and expressed culture has now been silenced and erased. An assault on the Uyghur people, and other Turkic nationalities in the region, has seen…
Three Faces of Revolution: Egypt and Other Places (Mona El-Ghobashy)
Seminar
The Arab uprisings of 2010-11 renewed scholarly interest in revolutions as a conceptual category. At the same time, ‘democratic transition’ was also widely used to analyze post-authoritarian polities. However, faced with the daunting complexity and breakneck speed of regional events, analysts began…
Remote Access to Russia? Investigating the Russian Empire’s historical acquisition of Indigenous human remains under COVID constraints
Seminar
Abstract Collections of human remains resulting from Western scientific activity over the past three centuries have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. Indigenous communities worldwide have been calling for the repatriation of their ancestors from such collections since at least the…
How I Studied Anti-Americanism: Reflections on Interpretivism, Eclecticism, and Coherence (Edward Schatz)
Seminar
How can social science research do justice to polysemy, ambiguity, dynamism, recursivity, indeterminacy, and contingency while making substantive, coherent truth-claims? In this talk, Edward Schatz reflects on the entirely messy processes that helped to produce his recent book Slow Anti-Americanism…