CSCMS Public Lecture Series

CSCMS Seminar Series 2010 / 2011

Per year, the Centre invites 4 to 6 leading academics in the social scientific study of Muslim societies to deliver public lectures. These lectures, aimed at academics, honours and postgraduate candidates, are also open to the wider public. All of the lectures will be recorded and made available on this site.

Islam, Empowerment and Power

The theme of the 2010/2011 public lecture series is Islam, Empowerment and Power. Islam is the epitome of a religion on the move in the 21^st century. Through the flow of capital, identities, culture and migration processes, this is a religion in constant flux within and across Christian, Muslim and/or secularist states. At the macro level, these processes can create tensions that can lead to demonstrations of power from and against the state, civil society and various Muslim and non-Muslim social movements/networks. At the micro level, people can gain or lose a sense of power through the practice and/or the concealment of their religion.

These 21^st century demonstrations of power at the macro and micro levels require further analysis from a social scientific and global perspective. This series of public lectures for invites internationally recognised scholars in the field of religion to discuss issues of power both imposed from above and contested from below, and will be published in an edited book in 2011-2012. This project is organised in conjunction with the Integrative Session on Islam and Power (opens in a new window) which took place at the World Congress of Sociology in Sweden in July 2010.

 

Lecture 6

Topic: 'De-radicalization versus Deprogramming: Similarities and Differences in Programs to Encourage Desistance'

Prof. James T Richardson (opens in a new window), University of Nevada, Reno

Date: Tuesday 18 October, 2011

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Venue: Bankstown Campus Building 1 Level 1 Room 117

Morning tea will be served. Please RSVP to e.garcia@uws.edu.au by Friday 14 October.

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Lecture 5 

Topic: 'Swiss Shock:  Minaret Rejection and European Values – Islam and tolerant neutrality'

Prof. Douglas Pratt (opens in a new window), University of Waikato, NZ

Date: Thursday 13 October, 2011

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Venue: Bankstown Campus Building 23 Room 41

RSVP to e.garcia@uws.edu.au by Tuesday 11 October. 

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Lecture 4

Topic:  ‘Re-theorizing Democracy and Islam’

Dr. Irfan Ahmad (opens in a new window), Monash University

Date: Friday 16 September, 2011

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Lecture 3

Topic: New Meanings and Connections: A Multi-faith Exploration of British Religious Young Adults and Sexuality

Associate Professor Andrew Yip (opens in a new window), University of Nottingham, U.K.

Date: Wednesday 3 August, 2011

Please click on the following links if you are intersted in viewing the Religion, Youth and Sexuality project press release video (opens in a new window) and reading selected key findings (opens in a new window).  

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Lecture 2 

Topic: The Qur’an and Women’s Lived Experience: the Huajeuexian Women’s Mosque in Xi’an, China 

Dr Toni Tidswell, Curtin University  (opens in a new window)

Date: Monday 4 April, 2011

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [61MB].

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Lecture 1

Topic: Muslim students’ negotiations of the contested spaces of the university campus

Dr Peter Hopkins (opens in a new window), Newcastle University, UK (opens in a new window)

Date: Thursday 3 March, 2011

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [75MB].

 

Lecture 8 

Topic: New Zealand Muslims: Islam, Multiculturalism and Religious Diversity 

Professor Paul Morris (opens in a new window), Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Date: Tuesday 5 October 2010

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [116MB].

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Lecture 7

Topic: Islamic Piety Against the Family: From ‘Traditional’ to ‘Pure’ Islam

Dr Santi Rozario (opens in a new window), Cardiff University

Date: Tuesday 21 September, 2010

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [77MB].

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Lecture 6

Topic: The Strange Afterlife of Islamism in Militant Laicism in Turkey

Dr Christopher Houston (opens in a new window), Macquarie University

 Date: Tuesday 14 September, 2010

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [79MB].

 

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Lecture 5

Topic: Australian Muslims: Are there barriers to their social inclusion?

Professor Riaz Hassan (opens in a new window), Flinders University

Date:   Monday 16 August, 2010

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [69MB].

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Lecture 4

Topic: The Future of Religion in Australia

Professor Gary D Bouma (opens in a new window), Monash University

 Date:  Tuesday 29 June, 2010

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Lecture 3

Topic: The European Court of Human Rights and Old Versus New Member States : Is There a Double Standard in Religious Freedom Cases?

Professor James T Richardson (opens in a new window), Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies (opens in a new window), The University of Nevada, Reno

Date: Tuesday 22 June, 2010

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [62MB].

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Lecture 2

Topic: Obama's Iran Dilemma

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh (opens in a new window), National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies (opens in a new window), The University of Melbourne

Date: Monday 31 May, 2010

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [56MB].

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Lecture 1

Topic: A Minority Within a Minority: Indigenous Muslims and the Search for Identity

Dr Peta Stephenson, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne

Date: Thursday 22 April, 2010

Topic: Popular Religion in Indonesia's Islamic Growth Movement

Julia Day Howell, Griffith University, Griffith Asia Institute

Date: Thursday 8 October, 2009

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [83MB].

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [85MB].