Michael Humphrey

Room 128 RC Mills Building +612 9351 6901 Chair of Department

Around the broad theme is the social, cultural and political consequences of globalisation; topics include violence and the nation-state in crisis; contemporary wars and terrorism; transitional justice; trauma, reconciliation and justice; governmentality and transgovernmentality; exclusion and citizenship; human rights politics; the future of megacities; biopolitics, health and human rights; globalised Islam; insecurity and the normalisation of violence. Areas of political and cultural expertise include, Lebanese diaspora, contemporary Lebanese politics and society, Islam in Australia; truth politics and political transitions in South America and Africa, post-transition human rights in Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa, post-transition violence in Argentina and South Africa

Recent External Grants

ARC Discovery (2005-8): ‘Cultural Competence and Traditional Healing in post- genocide Cambodia’ (team member)

ARC Discovery (2004-6): Professions, Human Rights, & the State, ($104,000)

AUSAID (2004-5): Post-conflict & Health UNSW Public Health & Sociology Team ($300,000)

Large ARC (1998-2000): ‘Violence, Voice & National Reconciliation’, ($110,258)

• Visiting Fellow, Dept Anthropology, Bergen University, Norway, Nov 2006
• Visiting Fellow Institute of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal 1999-2001 (Dec-Feb)
• Visiting Fellow Centre for Lebanese Studies, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, July-August 1989

Council Member of the World Congress of Middle East Studies.

Editorial board member Social Analysis; Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies

• SCLG4011 Honours Seminar
• SCLG2620 Human Rights and Social Transformations

Current:
Rinduan Zain (PhD) 'Islam Political Parties and Democracy in Indonesia'
Jane Thompson (PhD) 'Sociology of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka'
Maya El-Shareef (PhD) 'Lebanese Youth in Australia' (joint supervision)

Completed:
Jan Ali (PhD) 2006 'Tablighi Jamaati Movement in Australia' UNSW

Shahadat Hossain (PhD) 2006 'Poverty and Slums in Dhaka' UNSW

Sergio Fiedler (PhD) 2001 'Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile' UNSW

Anais Tuepker (PhD) 2002 'Asylum and National Citizenship in South Africa' UNSW

Kirsty Martin (PhD) 2004 'Women’s Organisations in East Java' UNSW

Aileen Keating (PhD) 2001 'The Raj in Arabia and Frank Holmes - the "father of oil"'. Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies ANU (Member ANU Supervisory Panel) ), ANU

Matthew Gray (PhD) 1998 'The relationship between economic liberalisation and tourism in the contemporary Middle East: a comparative political economic study of Egypt, Syria and Jordan', Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies ANU (Supervisory Panel Membership), ANU

Ali Deghan Niri (PhD) 1998 'State, Bureaucracy and Development in Iran', UNSW

Christine Jennett (PhD) 1997 'Black Power in Australia', UNSW

Peter Khoury (PhD) 1995 'Aboriginal Health Services', UNSW

The Politics of Atrocity & Reconciliation; From Terror to Trauma, London: Routledge, 2002.

Humphrey, M., Guest Editor, Special edition on ‘Transnationalism’, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 3(2), 2001.

Humphrey, M., Guest Editor, Special edition on ‘Health & Social Justice’, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 5(1), 2003.

Islam, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora, I.B. Tauris,1998, pp 200.

Family, Work and Unemployment: A Study of Lebanese Settlement in Sydney, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984, pp.151.

'From Diaspora Islam to Globalised Islam: Changing Islamic religiosity and identity in the West', in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Fethi Mansouri (eds) Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Diaspora and Radicalism in the West, London: I B Tauris, pp. 107-124, 2007.

'Lebanese Ethnicities in a Globalising World', Paul Tabar (ed.) in Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism and Belonging, Lebanese American University, pp. 31-54, 2005.

'Australian Islam, the New Global Terrorism and the Limits of Citizenship' in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Samina Yasmeen (eds.) Islam and the West: Reflections from Australia, Sydney: UNSW Press, 132-148, 2005

'Injuries and Identities: Authorising Arab Diasporic Difference in Crisis' in G. Hage (ed.) Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging, University of Melbourne, 206-224, 2002.

'Lebanese Muslims' in J. Jupp (ed) The Encyclopaedia of the Australian People, 2nd edition, Canberra : ANU Press, 564-7, 2001.

'An Australian Islam? Religion in the multicultural city' in S. Akbarzadeh & A, Saeed (eds), Muslim Communities in Australia, University of NSW Press, 33-52, 2001.

Michael Humphrey & William Shepard 'Islam in Australasia' In David Westerlund (ed.), Islam Outside the Arab World- an Introduction, London: Curzon, 278-94, 1999.

'Ethnic History, Nationalism and Transnationalism in Argentine Arab and Jewish Cultures', I. Klich & Jeffrey Lesser (eds.), Immigrants and Minorities, Special Issue on Arab and Jewish Immigrants in the Latin America, 16 (1&2), 1997, 167-88.

'Civil War, Community and State in the Middle East', in Bill Logan & Paul White (eds.) Remaking the Middle East: Australian Perspectives, London: Berg Press, 1997, 19-40.

'Harakat al-Tawhid al-Islami' (Islamic Unity Movement) in Encyclopaedia of the Modern Islamic World, John Esposito (ed.) Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 99-101.

'Sectarianism and the Politics of Identity: the Lebanese in Sydney', in A. Hourani & N. Shehadi (eds.) Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration, London: I.B. Tauris, 1993, 443-471

'Islam, Immigrants and the State: Religion and the Politics of Culture in Australia' Alan Black (ed.) Religion in Australia: Sociological Perspectives, Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1991). (Also published in Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations)

'Muslim Lebanese' for The Encyclopaedia of Australian People, J. Jupp (ed.) Bi-Centennial Publication, 1988

'Religion, Law, and Family Disputes in an Immigrant Community' in G. Bottomley & M.de Lepervanche (eds.) Ethnicity, Class & Gender. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin. 1984

'Lebanese families, Law and the Welfare State' in M. Humphrey (ed.) Issues In Lebanese Migration, (editor), Proceedings of the Seminar held at Milperra College of Advanced Education, July 3rd, 1981, 63-71.

M. Humphrey & E.Valverde 'Human Rights, Victimhood and Impunity: An Anthropology of Democracy in Argentina' Social Analysis (forthcoming 2007)

'Suffering, human rights, and the state: reconciliation under neo-liberal governmentality', European Journal of Social Theory (forthcoming 2007)

'Culturalising the Abject: Islam, Law and Moral Panic in the West', Australian Journal of Social Issues 42(1): 9-25, 2007.

'Reconciliation and the Therapeutic State', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(3): 203-220, 2005.

'Lebanese Identities between Cities, Nations and Trans-Nations'. Arab Studies Quarterly, 26(1), 31-50, 2004.

'Terrorism, Human Rights and Social Futures: From Reconciliation to Risk', Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 4(1), 2004.

[[i||Unsafe, Uncertain and Risky: How the World Looks from the Risk Averse Perspective of the West'. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 5(1), 1-10, 2004.

'Health as an Index of Social Justice' Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies, 5(1), 1-6, 2003.

'From Victim to Victimhood: Tribunals and Trials as Rituals of Individual and Social Healing', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 14(2): 171-187, 2003.

'Impunity, Healing and Justice: the moral recovery of the victim', Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, (October) 4(1). 161-182, 2003.

'International Intervention, Justice & National Reconciliation: the role of the ICTY & ICTR in Bosnia & Rwanda', Journal of Human Rights, 2(4), 495-506. 2003.

'Terrorism, Risk & Globalisation', Australian and New Zealand Reinsurance and Finance Journal, 26(2): 8-13. 2003.

Hossain, S. & Humphrey, M. 'The Concept of the Culture of Poverty and the Slums of Dhaka City', Inter-Cultural Studies, 2(2): 73-84, 2003. (20%), 2003

'Refugees: an endangered species', The Journal of Sociology, 39(1): 31-43, 2003.

Humphrey, M. & Davidson, A. 'Review Article on Political Violence and Terrorism', Social Analysis: the International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice,47 (1), 154-169, (55% - primary author), 2003

Humphrey, M., Aoude, I., Davidson, A., Fiedler, S., and Sichone, O. 'Review Article on Globalisation', Social Analysis: the International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 46(2), 157-76. (25% - primary author), 2002.

Humphrey, M. , Berger, M.,Kapferer, B., Kessler, C., & Yao, Souchou, 'Review Article: New Visions of the State', Social Analysis: the International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 46(1): 153-166, (25% - primary author), 2002.

'Humanitarianism, Terrorism and the Transnational Border', Social Analysis, 46(1), 117-122, 2002.

Michael Humphrey & Maroun Kisirwani 'Impunity, Nationalism and Transnationalism: the Recovery of the "Disappeared" of Lebanon', Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies., 3(2), pp.113-40, 2001 (90%), 2001.

'Transnationalism in a Globalising World' Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies, 3(2), pp.1-6, 2001.

'Defended or Reconciled Peace: Israel and Palestine', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 54(3), 325-336, 2000.

'Violence, Voice & Identity in Algeria', Arab Studies Quarterly, 22(1), Winter, pp.1-20, 2000.

'Globalisation and Arab Diasporic Identities: the Australian Arab Case', Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2(1), pp.141-158, 2000.

'Victim Diplomacy and Transnational Nationalism: Kurdish Diaspora Dilemmas', Journal of Arabic, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, 5(2), pp.55-67, 1999.

'From Terror to Trauma: Commissioning Truth for National Reconciliation', Social Identities, 6(1), pp.7-27, 2000.

'Islamo, Imigrantes e Estado: Religião e Pol'tica Cultural na Austrália', Imaginário, 4, 103-29, 1998.

'Civil War, Identity & Globalisation' new formations, 31, spring/summer, 1997, 67-82.

'Civil Wars: Between Communalism and Globalism' Communal/Plural, 1,1993, pp. 105-128.

'The Political Economy of Population Movements in the Middle East', Middle East Report, March/April, 181,1993, 2-10.

'An Anthropologist in the Middle East', Review, Journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, November, 1991, pp.4-11

'The Changing Role of Asian Labour Migration in the Middle East' in Revue Européene des Migrations Internationales, 7(1), 1991, 45-64.

'Asian Women Workers in the Middle East' in Asian Migrant, IV, no.2, April-June, 1991, 53-60.

'Islam, Immigrants and the State: Religion and the Politics of Culture in Australia', Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, (Birmingham, Selly Oak Colleges), 1(2), jan, 1991, 208-232

'Islam, Sect and State: the Lebanese Case', Papers on Lebanon No. 11, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, October, 1989.

'Islam: a Test for Multiculturalism', Asian Migrant, II, 2, 48-56, April-June, 1989.

'Community, Mosque and Ethnic Politics', ANZ Journal of Sociology, July, 23(2), 1987, pp.233-245 Also in A. Ata (ed.) Religion and Ethnic Identity: an Australian Study, Spectrum Publications, 1988.

'The Lebanese War and Lebanese Immigrant Culture: a Comparative Study of Australia and Uruguay', Ethnic & Racial Studies, vol.9, no.4, Oct. 1986, 445-460.

'Community Disputes and Violence' Journal of Legal Pluralism, 23, pp.53-88, 1984.

'Postmodern Wars: Terrorism, the Therapeutic State and Public Safety', Conference Proceedings of the 'Sources of Insecurity' Conference, The Globalism Institute, RMIT, 17th-19th November, 2004.

'After WTC, Terrorism as a Risk', Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal, 26(3): 8-13, 2003

'Identity & Medi[ated] Violence: Ethnic conflict, the Media and Globalisation' in Diane Bretherton (ed), No Longer Black & White: Media Responsibility in Ethnic And Racial Conflict, International Conflict Resolution Centre, University of Melbourne Press, 1998. pp.170-80.

'Lebanon: the Cellular Society', Conference Proceedings, Lebanon Beyond 2000, ANU Press, Canberra ,1997, pp. 34-56.

Humphrey, M. – Book Review: Gilles Kepel Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam, Harvard UP, 2002 in Journal of Religious History, 30(2): 263-5, 2006

Humphrey, M. Book Review:Abdullah Saeed, Islam in Australia, in the Australian Book Review, No.251, May, p.23, 2003.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Pronouncing and Preserving Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court, by Susan F. Hirsch, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12(1): 90-1, 2001.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Newer Islamic Movements in Western Europe, by Lars Pedersen London: Ashgate Publishing, Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1(3): 375-6.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Sacrifice as Terror: the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, by Christopher Taylor, Oxford: Berg in The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Dec 2000.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Van Dijk, Rijk, Reis, Ria & Spierenburg (eds) The Quest for Fruition Through Ngoma: The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa, Oxford: James Curry, 2000 in for African Studies Association Review & Newsletter, XXII (2), Dec 2000

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Newer Islamic Movements in Western Europe by Lars Pedersen, London: Ashgate, 1999 in Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1(1), 2000.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Pronouncing and Preserving: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court, by Susan F. Hirsch, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press in The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2000.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Controlling Anger: The Anthropology of Gisu Violence, by Suzette Head, 2nd ed, Oxford: James Curry 1998 for African Studies Association Review & Newsletter, XXII (1), June 2000.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: 'A window on the past: a review of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report', African Studies Review and Newsletter, XXI(2),pp.20-26, December, 1999.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy, by G. Norman Anderson, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999 in Arab Studies Quarterly, 22(2), 2000.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, S. Lavie & T. Swedenburg (eds.) Durham/London: Duke University Press, 1996 in Passages: Journal of Transnational & Transcultural Studies, 1(2), 299-302, 1999.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Secret State, Silent Press. New Militarism: the Gulf and the Modern Image of Warfare, by Richard Keeble, Luton: University of Luton Press, 1997 in Media International Australia, 89, 1998, 154-5.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Robin Cohen (ed), Cambridge U.P. in The International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 29(2), 1997, pp.296-7.

Humphrey, M. Book Review: The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, by Hamid Naficy in The Middle East Journal, 1995, ISSN 0026-3141, vol 49, no.2, spring, p.357

Humphrey, M. Book Review: The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy, by H. Islamoglu-Inan (ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987) in Asian Studies Review, 13(3), 1990, 187-8

'The Intifada and the Quest for a Palestinian State', Teaching History, 23(2), July 1989, 3-8.

'Is this a Mosque-Free Zone? Islam and the State in Australia', Migration Monitor, January, no.12, pp.12-17, 1989

'Islam and Factional Politics in Tripoli (Lebanon): the Emergence of Harakat al-Tawheed al-Islamiyya (Islamic Unification Movement)', AMESA Working Paper No.5, Feb. 1986

Humphrey, M. Book Review: Muslim Women, by Freda Hussain (ed), London: Croom Helm, 1984 and Women in Islamic Societies: Social Attitudes and Historical Perspectives, by Bo Utas, London: Croomhelm, 1983, in Mankind, 16(1).

'Culture, Language, and National Identity' The Immigrant December, 1983 (Stockholm).

'Arabic Speaking Communities in Sydney' Public Libraries of N.S.W. Newsletter, December 1982.

'Ethnicity and the Family in the Context of the Australian Legal System', CHOMI Reprint 1981.

'Legal Pluralism: a theory of law from above versus a theory of law from below', in The Customary Law Group of Australia Newsletter, no.5, February 1981.

'Lebanese Migrants and the Practice of Personal Law in Sydney' in The Customary Law Group of Australia Newsletter, no.3, April 1979.

'Reconciliation: Whose Burden, Whose Responsibility?', Keynote address at International Perspectives on Peace and Reconciliation, Flagship Conference University of Melbourne, 14-17th July, 2003, Conference CD.

'Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Security', presented at the 'Terrorism and security law' seminar, Wednesday 27 August 2003, as part of the 'Globalisation and Human Rights Seminar Series', The Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law. AHRC website, Working paper. http://www.ahrcentre.org/content/research_working_papers.htm

'Racism and Unemployment Amongst Lebanese’ in Seminar Proceedings of The Arabic Community: Realities and Challenges, Sydney: The Arabic Welfare Inter-Agency, 1986, pp.29-41.

'Islamic Law in Australia' in M. Humphrey (ed.) Conference Proceedings, Islam in Australia, Sydney: Anti-Discrimination Board, 1985.

'Lebanese Families, Law and the Welfare State' in M. Humphrey (ed), Conference Proceedings, Lebanese in Australia, Sydney: Macarthur Institute of Higher Education, 1981.

'From Diaspora to Globalised Islam' presented at 'Hyperdiversity, Diaspora and Media', the Centre for Cultural Research, UWS, on March 19-20, 2007.

'Globalised Islam in Australia', Christen Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 15th Nov, 2006.

Michael Humphrey & Estela Valverde 'Contemporary Human Rights Politics in Argentina', Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, 14th November, 2006

'Islam in Australia', Brunei University, Brunei, October 2006

Valverde, E. and M. Humphrey (2006) 'Contemporary Human Rights Politics in Argentina and South Africa: Old Victims versus New Victims', AILASA Conference, Sydney 27-29 September, 2006.

'The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina and South Africa' in Sociology of Law Research Committee, International Sociological Association Conference, Durban, South Africa. 23-27 July 2006.

'The Legacy of Suffering: Contemporary Human Rights Politics in South Africa', Constitution Hill, organised by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 19th July, 2006.

'Suffering, human rights, and the state: reconciliation under neo-liberal governmentality'. Presented at the 'Reconciliation, Politics and the Emotions' Workshop,.Monash Prato Centre, Italy, June 26-28, 2006.

M. Humphrey with Valverde, E., and V..Barolsky (2006) 'The Legacy of Suffering caused by atrocity and a repressive past', Colloquium organized by the Constitution Hill and The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, 19 July.

M.Humphrey & E. Valverde 'Old Victims and New Victims: Contemporary Human Rights Politics in Argentina and Australia', Anthropology Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, 23rd March, 2006

'From Diaspora Islam to Globalised Islam: Changing Islamic religiosity and identity in the West' in Conference on Human Security in Muslim Societies: Challenges and Opportunities, Monash University & Deakin University, Melbourne, 26-27th Nov 2005.

'Anthropological Reflections on Law , Security and the Abject: Policing Dangerous Muslim Bodies' in 'Muslims, Secularism and the Secular State' Colloquium held by Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, University of Melbourne,, 23 November, 2005.

'From Diaspora Islam to Globalised Islam', presentation to UNSW@ADFA seminar series, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, ADFA, 20th June, 2005

'Impunity and Reconciliation in Postwar Lebanon' presented at the 'Lebanon in the 21st Century: The Post-Election Economic and Political Climate' Conference held by the Div. Of Economic and Financial Studies and the Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, Macquarie University, 17th June, 2005.

'Islam & the West' at the Polisoc Seminar, UNSW 5th May, 2005

Michael Humphrey & Estela Valverde 'An Anthropology of Democracy: Impunity and Human Rights in Argentina', Dept Anthropology, University of Sydney, 23rd April, 2005

'Clash of Civilisations', Response to Imam Zaid at RMIT seminar, Sydney, 14th December, 2004.

'Postmodern wars: terrorism, the therapeutic state and public safety', Sources of Insecurity: Global, National, Local Conference, RMIT, Melbourne 17-19th November (invited speaker)

'Postgraduate Culture', Keynote address to the School of Sociology & Anthropology, Postgraduate Symposium, Saturday 30th October, 2004

'What is terrorism', Manufacturing Fear: A public forum on the politics of anti-terror, UTS Saturday 13 November, 9.30-4.30

Invited to participate in a fully funded conference at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Symposium on 'Lessons from South African for Israel Palestine', 15-16th October, 2004.
'Reconciliation and the therapeutic state', Workshop on Reconciliation and Democracy, 27-28th September, 2004 (for reviewed publication in Journal of Intercultural Studies) (invited & funded).

'Trophy Shots or Torture on the Road to Freedom', to the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy, Amman, 23rd Aug, 2004. (invited & funded)

'Iraq after 30 June?' Politics in the Pub, 2nd July, 2004.

'Communalism in Lebanon & the Diaspora after the Lebanese War (1975-1990)' Lebanese Historical Society, State Library, Saturday 24th April, 2004.

'The Impact of Globalisation on Latin America', 5th March, Surry Hills 2004.

'Perspectives on Islam' invited participant at the Academy of the Social Sciences Special Workshop, University of Adelaide, 28-29th November, 2003.

'Australian Islam and the New Global Terrorism' RIAP, University of Sydney, 23rd October, 2003.

Conference Convenor, 'Risk, Complex Crises & Social Futures', RIIFS, Amman, 11-13th October 2003

'Terrorism, Human Rights and Social Futures: From Reconciliation to Risk', Conference ‘Risk, Complex Crises & Social Futures’ RIIFS, Amman, 11-13th October 2003.

'Australian Islam, the New Global Terrorism and the Limits of Citizenship' .in Conference: Islam post-September 11, University of Melbourne, August 2003

'Islam in Australia', Islam in the Contemporary World, ANU course for Attorney General’s Department, 6th August, 2003.

'Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Security', presented at the 'Terrorism and security law' seminar, Wednesday 27 August 2003, as part of the 'Globalisation and Human Rights Seminar Series', The Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law.

'Post-War Iraq', Australian Institute of International Affairs, Kent St Sydney, 29th July, 2003.

'Reconstruction in Iraq', Politics in the Pub, 25th July, Surry Hills.

'On Biopolitics and Genocide', discussant, Colonialism and Genocide Conference, University of Sydney, 17-19th July, 2003.

'Reconciliation: Whose Burden, Whose Responsibility?' Keynote address at International Perspectives on Peace and Reconciliation, University of Melbourne, 14-17th July, 2003

'Impunity, Healing, Justice', Dept. of Anthropology Seminar, Macquarie University, 12th May, 2003.

'Terrorism: How has it changed the face of international relations and what is its connection to the war on Iraq?' For 'War on Iraq: Present and Future Implications', UNSW School of Social Work Forum And Seminars, Saturday 12th April.

'Impunity in Uruguay', UNSW Faculty of Law Seminars, 26th March, 2003.

'Social Futures Research in Sociology', School Research Seminar, School of Sociology, UNSW, 29th March, 2003

'War in Iraq', Forum, Macquarie University, 21st March, 2003

'Iraq and the Threat of War: A Time for Truth and Resistance'
Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace, Enfield, 17th November 2002.

'War against Iraq – the real agenda', Politics in the Pub, 18th October , 2002.

Panel member with Prof. Krishna Sen, A/Prof. John Caroll, Prof. Tony Coady, Dr. Michael O'Keefe, Dr Chris Lawe Davies, on 'Terrorism and the Politics of Atrocity', Australian Public Intellectual Network, On-Line, 11th November, 2002.

'Violence, transnationalism and space', Cities on the Edge Conference, University of Melbourne, 9-13 October, 2002

Convenor, 'Health & Social Justice' Conference, RIIFS, Amman, 1-3rd October 2002.

2003 'Impunity, Healing and Justice: the moral recovery of the victim', 'Health & Social Justice' Conference, RIIFS, Amman, 1-3rd October 2002.

'Terrorism, Risk & Globalisation', The Institute – Reinsurance Discussion Group, 'After WTC, Terrorism as a Risk', The American Club, Sydney 4th September, 2002

'Religion and International Relations', Seminar; Contemporary Strategic Setting, Deakin University and the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies ADFA, Canberra, 20th August, 2002

'Communal Identification amongst Lebanese during and after the Civil War in Lebanon & the Diaspora' presented at 'Understanding Lebanon Today: Society, Politics and Culture', Conference convened jointly by: The Centre for International Public Affairs, The University of Sydney & The Research Institute of the Australian Lebanese Assembly. 24-26th July, 2002

'The International Prosecution of Atrocity', Law and Justice Under Fire; lessons from the Yugoslav Wars, Dubrovnik, 13-16th July 2002.

'Impunity, Healing & Justice: the Moral Recovery of the Victim', RC12, Sociology of Law, ISA Conference, UQ, Brisbane 7-11 July, 2002

'Round table on ‘Peacemaking in Divided Societies', RC05, Social of Race and Ethnicity, ISA Conference, UQ, Brisbane 7-11th July, 2002

'The War against Terrorism', Politics in the Pub, 24th May, 2002

'Social Change and Social Theory', Secondary School Teachers, 10thMay, 2002.
'The Bush Doctrine', Politics in the Pub, Surry Hills, 15th February, 2002