What's On at UWA

CMSS’s Religion, State & Society Seminars will explore the role of religion in shaping lived experiences of Muslims in the contemporary globalised world. This involves exploring the interaction between Muslims and non-Muslim in political, social, cultural and economic spheres at local (...)

CMSS Religion, State & Society Seminar Series

Amina Rasul, President, Philippine Centre for Islam and Democracy

Title: Islam and Lived Experiences of Muslims in the Philippines

For the first time in history, the Philippines has elected a new President who hails (...)

The reasons why young Malay-Muslims in Malaysia are being radicalised are many. It is not about being radicalised in religious schools, nor lacking religious beliefs. These reasons are true but in Malaysia, identity politics is the key factor in the angst and radicalisation of young Muslims. And (...)

Studies on women's political representation in various parliaments in the world had offered explanations as to why women are far less successful than men in winning legislative seats. This presentation will elaborate four major factors often cited as key impediments for women in legislative (...)

Centre for Muslim States and Societies, UWA, and Australian Institute of International Affairs WA present

ISLAM TODAY: POLITICS, STATE AND SOCIETY

The conference will explore Islam’s role in shaping the lived experiences of Muslims in the contemporary globalised world. This (...)

In Power Failure: The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, Syeda Abida Hussain outlines the impacts that key political events in Pakistan have had on her personal life — and on the destiny of the nation. It is a political autobiography which gives (...)

Salafi Islamisation and Authoritarian Governance in Malaysia

Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Department of Government & International Relations, University of Sydney

WHEN: 4.30pm – 6pm WHERE: Room 2.63 Political Science Conference Room, Social Sciences Building, UWA ENTRY: Free RE (...)

High Commissioner of Australia to Pakistan Ms Margaret Adamson will speak on contemporary Pakistan and Australia-Pakistan relations.

WHEN: 9 March 2017

TIME: 4.15pm - 6pm

VENUE: Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, University of Western Australia

ENTRY: (...)

You are invited to join us for a public lecture on the escalating South China Sea dispute and how the assertive policies of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte are shaping this dispute and wider East Asian geopolitics. In 2017, the Philippines are chairing the ASEAN bloc in its 50th year. As the (...)

CMSS Seminar Series: Religion, State and Society

Legalizing Authoritarianism in Egypt

By Dr Amr Hamzawy, American University in Cairo and Cairo University

DATE: Thursday, 16 March 2017 TIME: 4.00pm – 6pm WHERE: Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, The University of (...)

Seminar/Public Talk by Professor Shafeeq Ghabra, Kuwait University

Since the rebellions of 2011 and more so since 2012, the Arab order is actually in a state of disorder, sitting atop a time bomb made up of youth, who constitute the overwhelming majority. Today’s youth, in stable and (...)

CMSS Religion, State and Society Seminar Series: On Islamism in West Africa: Re/membering Past Political Movements

by Muhammad Dan Suleiman

The presentation will re-tell the story of past anti-state rebel movements in West Africa, and then discusses if and how that story is (...)

Abstract

Too many observers of present-day Iraq have accepted the argument that the nation-state was created, and remained the monopoly of certain groups. Because narratives of the past, particularly Arabic-language memoirs, have never been taken into account in the manufacture of this (...)

CMSS Public Lecture:

Shari'a in Islam: what it is, and what it is not.

Date: Monday, 1 May 2017 Time: 5pm to 6.30pm Venue: Austin Lecture Hall, 159, Arts Building, UWA. Entry: Free RSVP: via Eventbrite or email to [email protected]

In this lecture Dr Khalid (...)

Centre for Muslim States and Societies and UWA Africa Research Cluster invite you to a public lecture on

"Countering Violent Extremism in Africa"

by His Excellency Ambassador Prof. Julius Kibet Bitok, PhD, Kenya High Commissioner to Pakistan

In this (...)

CMSS Religion, State and Society Seminar Series:

"The Saudi State as an Identity Racketeer"

Although substantial research has examined the Saudi state’s symbiosis with the Islamic revivalist movement commonly known as ‘Wahhabism’, few studies have considered (...)

Denmark Arts and the Centre for Muslim States and Societies, UWA, invite you to Sufi Songs from the Pankisi Valley by the Ensemble Aznash Lamaan.

The Ensemble Aznash Laaman are a collective of ethnic Chechen musicians from Georgia. For the Aznash Laaman there is the root, the vibration (...)

Please join us for Annual Iftar (Breaking of the Fast) Event to celebrate Ramadan 2017.

The Centre for Muslim States and Societies, UWA, holds this event annually to promote inter-religious harmony and increase understanding of Islam in a globalised world.

Professor Abdullah (...)

The AIIA WA in partnership with the Centre for Muslim States and Societies is proud to host a Fellow's Lecture by well-known ABC presenter Geraldine Doogue titled Foreign Affairs as a water-cooler conversation – the challenge awaiting us.

Geraldine is a West Australian with a long and (...)

The Centre for Muslim States and Societies, the University of Western Australia, The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University, and the Islamophobia Register of Australia, invite you to a Panel Discussion on Islamophobia in Australia 2014-2016, the first-of-its-kind (...)