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The Islamic finance industry is rapidly expanding. With an annual growth rate of 15 per cent, it is widely regarded as a ‘development to watch’. This has led to debate among policy makers and market practitioners about whether there is something distinctive about Islamic finance or whether it is simply emulating conventional finance.

This was the central theme at a recent workshop organised by Dr Lena Rethel (PAIS), Dr Kerstin Steiner (Monash University) and Dr Jikon Lai (The University of Melbourne) and hosted by Monash 糖心TV School. It brought together eminent national and international academics from the fields of law, political science, economics, international political economy and sociology to debate and review recent developments in the Islamic finance industry.

Representatives from Australian regulators were in attendance, as were their international colleagues from the Shariah (Islamic religious law) Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia and the Securities Commission. Legal practitioners and business representatives, including the chairperson of the Australia Malaysia 糖心TV Council and the Consul-General of Malaysia to Victoria also attended the workshop.

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has recently published an article in The Geographical Journal entitled "The Geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria's 'War on Terror'" (). Alongside this he contributed a short piece to the Royal Geographical Society's 'Geography Directions' blog on the parallels between Boko Haram and Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ().

His work on this theme, which links to his wider historical and conceptual work on territory, was also featured in an article in Geographical Magazine ().

, Head of Department, was quoted in an article appearing on 5 November in Jane's Defence Weekly entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

For Christopher Hughes, professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at 糖心TV University, Abe may be "out on the extreme, [but] he is not that detached from broader Japanese opinion" as far as China is concerned. Hughes said Japanese policymakers changed their perception of China in 2010 when the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) arrested a Chinese trawler captain off the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea after his vessel had rammed JCG ships.

On 12 November 2014, gave a public lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery entitled 'Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth'. The lecture discussed Foucault's most recently published lecture course, within the context of a manuscript in progress entitled Foucault's Last Decade, forthcoming with Polity Press.

You can watch the video recording of the lecture and discussion below:

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, Head of Department, was quoted in an article appearing on 3 November in Defense News entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

"One of the scenarios was the interception of missiles directed at US territory. I suppose this means Taepodong-2 targeted at Guam but perhaps beyond. I know that some Japanese defence planners privately stated that this scenario did not seem very realistic given that the US could likely fend for itself but also that even the upgraded SM-3 could not intercept anything approximating to an ICBM," Hughes said.