Professor Michael Humphrey
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Research Interests
My research interests have focused on large scale social change and the governability of social life. This has been strongly framed by the impact of globalization on the relationship and connections between societies in the North and South. The themes of my research have included international migration, refugees, multiculturalism, community, the city, war, terrorism, law, human rights and transnational governance. The major areas of my research have been in 2 areas: ‘Islam in the West’ and ‘Political Violence and Social Healing’.
My work on ‘Islam in the West’ has explored the changing character of Muslim cultural identity and citizenship in Western societies over the past 25 years. I have analysed the formation of Islam as an immigrant and minority religion in Western societies and showed how place of origin and identity have strongly shaped religious leadership, authority, the practice of Islamic law, organization and ethnic fragmentation. Post September 11 I have explored the way transnational forms of religious identity and governance that have shape Muslim identity and Islam have wider implications for the character of transnational citizenship and global governance.
My research on ‘Political Violence and Social Healing’ has explored the unmaking of societies by violence and therapeutic forms of governance that have emerged to rehabilitate societies and recover state legitimacy and authority. I have contributed to the study of transitional justice through research on truth recovery, victims and victimhood, disappearance, human rights and democratization. The main focus has been on Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa and Lebanon. My research students have also studied disappearance in Sri Lanka, reconciliation in South Africa, social justice in Chile, reconciliation in Bosnia.
My methodology synthesizes anthropological and sociological approaches by focusing on lived experience at particular locations to investigate big issues through a comparative and historical method. I have focused on big issues such the impact of political violence on society, the politicisation of Islam, the expansion of human rights in order to develop comparative analytical frameworks to provide greater knowledge about them. The aim has been to develop methodology and analysis appropriate to a globalizing world.
My current research projects are on ‘trauma and victim politics’ and ‘amnesty and democratisation’ for book proposals on ‘The Politics of Victimhood’ and ‘Amnesty: the political limits to transitional justice’
Research Grants
Sydney University Research Office Bridging Grant: An Anthropology of Transitional Justice: Argentina and Bosnia ($40,000)
ARC Discovery (2005-8): ‘Cultural Competence and Traditional Healing in post- genocide Cambodia’ (team member)
ARC Discovery (2004-6): Professions, Human Rights, and the State, ($104,000)
AUSAID (2004-5): Post-conflict and Health UNSW Public Health and Sociology Team ($300,000)
Large ARC (1998-2000): ‘Violence, Voice and National Reconciliation’, ($110,258)
Current Courses Taught
- SCLG2623 Sociology of Terror
- SCLG2624 Human Rights and Social Protest
- INGS1002 Global Culture and Society
Doctoral Supervisions
Current:
Estella Capri (PhD) ‘Ethnography of a Beirut Suburb’
Joanne Harris (PhD) ‘Structuring possibilities for research in the body’
Jo Jericho (D. Soc Sc) ‘The Australian Military’s Gendered Combat Policy’
Jane Thompson (PhD) 'Sociology of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka'
Michelle Veljanovska (PhD) ‘Reconciliation in the Balkans’
Completed:
Thomas Birtchnell (PhD) 2009 ‘Portable talent : transnational business elites from India and their circuits of expertise, entrepreneurship, and community’
Jan Ali (PhD) 2006 'Tablighi Jamaati Movement in Australia' UNSW
Shahadat Hossain (PhD) 2006 'Poverty and Slums in Dhaka' UNSW
Kirsty Martin (PhD) 2004 'Women’s Organisations in East Java' UNSW
Anais Tuepker (PhD) 2002 'Asylum and National Citizenship in South Africa' UNSW
Sergio Fiedler (PhD) 2001 'Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile' 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
PUBLICATIONS
Books & Monographs
Issues In Lebanese Migration, (editor), Proceedings of the Seminar held at Milperra College of Advanced Education, July 3rd, 1981.
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.
Humphrey, M (ed.) Islamic Communities in N.S.W., TAFE, 1986,pp. 88.
Islam, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: from the Lebanese Diaspora, I.B. Tauris,1998, pp 200.
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.
Book ChaptersForthcoming
Counter-militancy, Jihadists and Hypergovernance: managing disorder in the ‘uncompleted’ postcolonial state of Pakistan in Samina Yasmeen (ed.) Confronting Militancy (forthcoming 2011)
Entries on transitional justice (Uruguay, Lebanon, Theories on victims, SERPAJ, Transitional Justice Outcomes Disappearance) Cambridge Encyclopedia on Transitional Justice (forthcoming 2011)
‘Dealing with a terrorist past’, Judith Renner & Alexander Spencer (eds) Reconciliation after Terrorism: Strategy, Possibility, or Stupidity? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2011)
Published2010
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘Conditional multiculturalism: Islam in liberal democratic states’, in Duncan Ivison (ed). The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism, Ashgate.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘Securitisation, Social Inclusion and Muslims in Australia’ in Samina Yasmeen (ed.) Muslims in Australia: The Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp.56-78.
Humphrey, Michael & Hossain, Shahadat (2010) ‘Expanding Urban Slums’, in Robert A. Denemark (ed), The International Studies Encyclopaedia, vol.IV, pp.1962-82
2008Humphrey, Michael (2008) ‘The New Wars and the Therapeutic Security Paradigm’ in Damian Grenfell and Paul James (editors) Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? London: Routledge, pp.59-70
2007Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘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: IB Tauris 2007, 107-124.
2005Humphrey, Michael (2005) ‘Lebanese Ethnicities in a Globalising World’, Paul Tabar (ed.) in Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism and Belonging, Lebanese American University, pp. 31-54.
Humphrey, Michael (2005) ‘Australian Islam, the New Global Terrorism and the Limits of Citizenship’ in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Samina Yasmeen (eds.) Islam and Political Violence: Reflections from Australia, Sydney: UNSW Press, pp.132-148.
2002Humphrey, Michael (2002) ‘Injuries and Identities: Authorising Arab Diasporic Difference in Crisis’ in G. Hage (ed.) Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging, University of Melbourne, pp.206-224.
2001Humphrey, Michael (2001) ‘Lebanese Muslims’ in J. Jupp (ed) The Encyclopaedia of the Australian People, 2nd edition, Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 564-7.
Humphrey, Michael (2001) ‘An Australian Islam? Religion in the multicultural city’ in S. Akbarzadeh & A, Saeed (eds), Muslim Communities in Australia, University of NSW Press, pp.33-52.
1999Humphrey, Michael & Shepard, William (1999) ‘Islam in Australasia’ In David Westerlund, Islam Outside the Arab World- an Introduction, London: Curzon, pp.278-94
1997Humphrey, Michael (1997) ‘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), pp.167-88.
Humphrey, Michael (1997) ‘Civil War, Community and State in the Middle East’, in Bill Logan & Paul White (eds.) Remaking the Middle East: Australian Perspectives , London: Berg Press, pp.19-40.
1994Humphrey, Michael (1994) ‘Harakat al-Tawhid al-Islami’ (Islamic Unity Movement) in Encyclopaedia of the Modern Islamic World, John Esposito (ed.) Oxford University Press, pp.99-101.
1993Humphrey, Michael (1993) ‘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, pp.443-471.
1991Humphrey, Michael (1991) ‘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)
1988Humphrey, Michael (1988) ‘Muslim Lebanese’ for The Encyclopaedia of Australian People, J. Jupp (ed.) Bi-Centennial Publication, 1988
1984Humphrey, Michael (1984) ‘Religion, Law, and Family Disputes in an Immigrant Community’ in G. Bottomley & M.de Lepervanche (eds.) Ethnicity, Class & Gender. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin.
1981Humphrey, Michael (1981) ‘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, pp.63-71.
Journal Articles
Forthcoming
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Emergency Law, Trauma and Justice. (Arab Studies Quarterly) (forthcoming Spring issue 2011)
Humphrey, Michael ‘Community as social metaphor: the need for a genealogy of social collectivities’, International Sociology (2011)
Published
2010
Humphrey, Michael ‘The politics of trauma’, ARTS The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, 32: 37-54.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘The Securitization and Domestication of Diaspora Muslims and Islam: the case of Turkish immigrants in Germany and Australia’. International Journal of Multicultural Societies 11(2): 134-153.
2008
Humphrey, Michael (2008) 'Human Rights Politics & Transitional Justice' 25th Annual Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Conference 2008 ‘W(h)ither Human Rights’, 10-12 December, University of Sydney, URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4000, ISBN: 978-1-74210-098-2
Humphrey, Michael & Valverde, Estela (2008) ‘Human Rights and Injustice: Transitional Justice in Argentina and South Africa’, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2(1): 1-23.
Humphrey, Michael (2008) Words from Writers: An Interview with Michael Humphrey International Sociology, 23: 159-169.
2007
Humphrey, Michael & Valverde, Estela (2007) ‘Human Rights, Victimhood and Impunity: an Anthropology of Democracy in Argentina’ Social Analysis, 51(1): 179-197.
Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘Culturalising the abject: Islam, law and moral panic in the West’, Australian Journal of Social Issues 42(1): 9-25.
2005
Humphrey, Michael (2005) ‘Reconciliation and the Therapeutic State’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(3): 203-220.
2004
Bunde-Birouste, Anne; Eisenbruch, Maurice; Grove, Natalie; Humphrey, Michael; Silove, Derrick; Waller, Emily and Zwi, Anthony. (2004) Background paper I: Health and Peace building: Securing the Future, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, UNSW.
Humphrey, Michael (2004) ‘Lebanese Identities between Cities, Nations and Trans-Nations’. Arab Studies Quarterly, 26(1): 31-50.
Humphrey, Michael (2004) ‘Torture on the Road to Freedom’, Arena, 22: 29-35.
Humphrey, Michael (2004) ‘Terrorism, Human Rights and Social Futures: From Reconciliation to Risk’, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 4(1).
Humphrey, Michael (2004) ‘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.
2003
Humphrey, Michael (2003) ‘Healing and Justice After Atrocity: Challenging Impunity’, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, (October) 5(1): 161-82.
Humphrey, Michael (2003) ‘From Victim to Victimhood: Tribunals and Trials as Rituals of Individual and Social Healing’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 14(2): 171-187.
Humphrey, Michael (2003) ‘International intervention, justice and national reconciliation: the role of the ICTY and ICTR in Bosnia and Rwanda’, Journal of Human Rights, 2(4): 495-506.
Humphrey, Michael (2003) ‘Terrorism, Risk & Globalisation’, Australian and New Zealand Reinsurance and Finance Journal, 26(2): 8-13.
Hossain, Shahadat & Humphrey, Michael (2002) ‘The Concept of a Culture of Poverty and the Slums of Dhaka’, Intercultural Studies: A Forum on Social Change and Cultural Diversity, 2(2): 73-97.
Humphrey, Michael (2003) ‘Refugees: an endangered species’, The Journal of Sociology, 39(1): 31-43.
Humphrey, Michael & Davidson, Andrew (2003) ‘Review Article on Political Violence and Terrorism’, Social Analysis: the International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice,47 (1).
2002
Humphrey, M., Aoude, I., Davidson, A., Fiedler, S., and Sichone, O. (2002) ‘Review Article on Globalisation’, Social Analysis: the International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice,46(2): 157-176.
Humphrey, M. , Berger, M.,Kapferer, B., Kessler, C., & Yao, Souchou, (2002) ‘Review Article: New Visions of the State’, Social Analysis: the International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 46(1).
Humphrey, Michael (2002) ‘Humanitarianism, Terrorism and the Transnational Border’, Social Analysis, 46(1): 117-122.
2001
Humphrey, Michael & Kisirwani, Maroun (2001) ‘Impunity, Nationalism and Transnationalism: the Recovery of the ‘Disappeared’ of Lebanon’ Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies.,3(2):113-40, 2001
2000
Humphrey, Michael (2000) ‘Defended or Reconciled Peace: Israel and Palestine’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 54(3): 325-336, 2000.
Humphrey, Michael (2000) ‘Globalisation and Arab Diasporic Identities: the Australian Arab Case’, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2(1): 141-158.
Humphrey, Michael (2000) ‘Violence, Voice & Identity in Algeria’, Arab Studies Quarterly, 22(1): 1-20.
Humphrey, Michael (2000) ‘From Terror to Trauma: Commissioning Truth for National Reconciliation’, Social Identities, 6(1): 7-27.
1999
Humphrey, Michael (1999) ‘Victim Diplomacy and Transnational Nationalism: Kurdish Diaspora Dilemmas’, Journal of Arabic, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, 5(2): 55-67.
Humphrey, Michael (1999) ‘A window on the past: a review of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report’, African Studies Review and Newsletter, XXI(2): 20-26, December.
Humphrey, Michael (1999) ‘Violence, Fragmentation & Reconciliation in the Sudan’, African Studies Review and Newsletter, XXI(1): 4-12.
1998
Humphrey, Michael (1998) ‘Islamo, Imigrantes e Estado: Religião e Pol'tica Cultural na Austrália’, Imaginário, 4, 103-29, 1998.
1997
Humphrey, Michael (1997) ‘Civil War, Identity & Globalisation’ new formations, 31, 67-82.
1993
Humphrey, Michael (1993) ‘Civil Wars: Between Communalism and Globalism’ Communal/Plural, 1, 105-128.
Humphrey, Michael (1993) ‘The Political Economy of Population Movements in the Middle East’, Middle East Report, March/April, 181: 2-10.
1991
Humphrey, Michael (1991) ‘An Anthropologist in the Middle East’, Review, Journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, November, 4-11.
Humphrey, Michael (1991) ‘The Changing Role of Asian Labour Migration in the Middle East’, Revue Europeene des Migrations Internationales, 7(1): 45-64.
Humphrey, Michael (1991) ‘Asian Women Workers in the Middle East’ in Asian Migrant, 4(2) April-June, 53-60.
Humphrey, Michael (1991) ‘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): 208-232, 1991.
1989
Humphrey, Michael (1989) ‘Islam, Sect and State: the Lebanese Case’, Papers on Lebanon No. 11, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, October.
Humphrey, Michael (1989) ‘Is this a Mosque-Free Zone? Islam and the State in Australia’, Migration Monitor, January,12, 12-17.
Humphrey, Michael (1989) ‘Islam: a Test for Multiculturalism’, Asian Migrant, II, 2: 48-56.
Humphrey, Michael (1989) ‘The Intifada and the Quest for a Palestinian State’, Teaching History, 23(2), July 3-8.
1987
Humphrey, Michael (1987) ‘Community, Mosque and Ethnic Politics’, ANZ Journal of Sociology 23(2): 233-245 [Also in A. Ata (ed.) Religion and Ethnic Identity: an Australian Study, Spectrum Publications, 1988]
Humphrey, Michael (1987) ‘The Lebanese War and Lebanese Immigrant Culture: a Comparative Study of Australia and Uruguay’, Ethnic & Racial Studies, 9(4): 445-460.
1986
Humphrey, Michael (1986) ‘Islam and Factional Politics in Tripoli (Lebanon): the Emergence of Harakat al-Tawheed al-Islamiyya (Islamic Unification Movement)’, AMESA Working Paper No.5, Feb.
1984
Humphrey, Michael (1984) ‘Community Disputes and Violence’ Journal of Legal Pluralism, 23, pp.53-88, 1984
1983
Humphrey, Michael (1983) ‘Culture, Language, and National Identity’ The Immigrant December,(Stockholm).
1982
Humphrey, Michael (1982) ‘Arabic Speaking Communities in Sydney’ Public Libraries of N.S.W. Newsletter, December 1982.
1981
Humphrey, Michael (1981) ‘Ethnicity and the Family in the Context of the Australian Legal System’, CHOMI Reprint 1981.
Humphrey, Michael (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.
1979
Humphrey, Michael (1979) ‘Lebanese Migrants and the Practice of Personal Law in Sydney’ in The Customary Law Group of Australia Newsletter, no.3, April.
Conference Proceedings
2008
Humphrey, Michael (2008) 'Human Rights Politics & Transitional Justice' 25th Annual Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Conference 2008 ‘W(h)ither Human Rights’, 10-12 December, University of Sydney, URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4000, ISBN: 978-1-74210-098-2
2004
Humphrey, Michael (2004) ‘Postmodern Wars: Terrorism, the Therapeutic State and Public Safety’, The First International Sources of Insecurity Conference,, Grenfell, Damian (Editor). Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, pp.1-10. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=876146034469460;res=E-LIBRARY
1998
Humphrey, Michael (1998)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 pp.170-80.
1997
Humphrey, Michael (1997) ‘Lebanon: the Cellular Society’, Conference Proceedings, Lebanon Beyond 2000, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 34-56.
1986
Humphrey, Michael (1986) ‘Racism and Unemployment Amongst Lebanese’ in Seminar Proceedings of The Arabic Community: Realities and Challenges, Sydney: The Arabic Welfare Inter-Agency, pp.29-41.
1985
Humphrey, Michael (1985) ‘Islamic Law in Australia’ in M. Humphrey (ed.) Conference Proceedings, Islam in Australia, Sydney: Anti-Discrimination Board.
Humphrey, Michael (1985) (ed.) Islam in Australia, Sydney: Anti-Discrimination Board, pp.62.
1981
Humphrey, Michael (1981) ‘Lebanese Families, Law and the Welfare State’ in M. Humphrey (ed), Conference Proceedings, Lebanese in Australia, Sydney: Macarthur Institute of Higher Education.
Humphrey, Michael (1981) (ed), Lebanese in Australia, Sydney: Macarthur Institute of Higher Education.
Book Reviews
2009
Humphrey, Michael (2009) Leigh A. Payne Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence, American Journal of Sociology, 115(2): 576-578.
Humphrey, Michael (2009) Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, in Reviews: Violence and Vulnerability in International Sociology 24(2): 215-218.
2007
Humphrey, Michael (2007) Arjun Appadurai. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Fear.(Critical essay).Michael Humphrey. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 18(2): 231-233.
2006
Humphrey, Michael (2006) Gilles Kepel Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam, Harvard UP, 2002 in Journal of Religious History, 30(2): 263-265.
2004
Humphrey, Michael (2004) Alex Argenti-Pillen. Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka.(Critical Essay).Michael Humphrey. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15(3): 345-348.
2003
Humphrey, Michael (2003) Abdullah Saeed, Islam in Australia, in the Australian Book Review, No.251, May, p.23.
CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected since 2005)
Forthcoming
2011
Humphrey, Michael (2011) ‘The Individualising Discourse of Law: Victims in Truth Commissions and Trials’, International Conference on Victims of International Crimes, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, June 2011.
Humphrey, Michael (2011), Peace paralysis in Bosnia - judicialisation of politics. Transitional Justice Workshop University of Sydney 25 February (Workshop Convenor).
2010
Humphrey, M & Valverde, E. (2010) ‘Amnesty and the Politics of Memory: The cases of Uruguay and Spain.Presented at the ‘Concretizing Justice’, Annual meeting of the Netherlands-Flemish Socio-Legal Studies Association, Middelburg, Netherlands, 16-17 December 2010.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘The Politics of Victimhood’, research seminar at Intervict, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands 15 December 2010.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) Transitional Justice and the The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, presentation to Berghof Conflict Research, Berlin 6 December.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) Rapporteur for Human Rights Law Session, Expert meeting: International law on children and armed conflict: the interface between various normative frameworks, Antwerp, City Campus, University of Antwerp, 26-27 November 2010 –
Humphrey, Michael (2010) Lecture ot MA Development. Missing: hierarchies of victims. Postconflict Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York, 23 November 2010.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) Border Protection, Keynote, Sydney Globalist Launch, Law School, University of Sydney,
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘Migration, security, insecurity’, Australian Social Science Academy Workshop, Rethinking Australian research on migration and diversity, University of Sydney 9-10th August.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘Transitional justice and transnational governmentality in Lebanon’, World Congress of Middle East Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 19-23 July.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘The Domestication and Securitization of Diaspora Muslims and Islam as a National Security Project’, RC22 Sociology of Religion, Islam and Power, World Congress, International Sociological Association, Gotenburg, 11- 17th July, 2010.
Humphrey, Michael & Valverde, Estela (2010) ‘Amnesty and Democracy in Uruguay: the legacy of a habitus of repression?’ RC 12 Sociology of Law, Human Rights Section, World Congress, International Sociological Association, Gotenburg, 11- 17th July, 2010.
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘The politics of trauma’, Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, 15th April. http://sydney.edu.au/arts/alumni_friends/previous_lecture.shtml
Humphrey, Michael (2010) ‘Human rights and the politics of trauma’ presented at Conferencia internacional “Derechos humanos y democratización: entre público y privado, entre local y global” Buenos Aires (CRIC, Universidad de San Martin, Cooperazione Italiana) 8-10th March 2010
2009
Humphrey, Michael (2009) Keynote, ‘Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations Conference, Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, 19-20 November.
Humphrey, Michael (2009) ‘The politics of trauma and reconciliation’, Possible roads to reconciliation, Victimology Society of Serbia (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), Hotel Zira Belgrade, 12-14. November.
Humphrey, Michael (2009) ‘Islams on the Frontier: a political sociology of violence.’ Countering Militancy in Pakistan: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions’, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia, 3-5th August.
Humphrey, Michael (2009) ‘Megacities: global experts, global solutions?’ Megacities Workshop, World Universities Network, York University, UK, 19-20th July.
2008
Humphrey, Michael (2008) ‘Human Rights Politics and Transitional Justice.’ Law and Society Annual Conference, University of Sydney 12-14th December.
Humphrey, Michael (2008) ‘Humanitarianism: the Power of the Gift’, Australian Sociological Association Annual Public Lecture 30th September, University of Sydney.
Humphrey, Michael (2008) ‘Community: Lost and Found’ in the special seminar ‘The Shape of Sociology Today’, The First International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum, Barcelona 5-8th September.
Humphrey, Michael (2008) ‘Thirty Years of Middle East Studies in Australia’, Andrew Vincent Memorial Lecture, Macquarie University, 1st August.
2007
Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘Comparative Megacities’ Sociological research workshop, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 7-14th November.
Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘Insecurity, Violence and Citizenship’ Workshop onSecuritizing Migration: Human Security or State Security’, University of Sydney, 19 October.
Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘Transnational Public Policy on the Management of Islam and Muslims in the EU and Australia: the case of Turkish immigrants’
Conference - ‘Immigrants as Citizens: Transnationalism and Incorporation as Future Directions in Turkish Relations with Australia, Europe and North America.’ University of Sydney, 6-7th October.
Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘Issues of Social Inclusion and Muslims in Australia’. Conference: Fulbright Symposium on Muslim Citizens in the West: Promoting Social Inclusion at the Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia, 1-3 August.
Humphrey, Michael (2007) ‘From Diaspora to Globalised Islam’ at the Workshop Hyperdiversity, Diaspora and Media Symposium. Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta. (Sponsored by the Cultural Research Network), 19-20 March.
2006
Humphrey, Michael (2006) ‘Globalised Islam in Australia’, Christen Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 15th November, 2006.
Humphrey, Michael & Valverde, Estela (2006) ‘Contemporary Human Rights Politics in Argentina’, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, 14th November.
Humphrey, Michael (2006) ‘Islam in Australia’, Brunei University, Brunei, 2nd October.
Humphrey, Michael & Valverde, Estela (2006) ‘Contemporary Human Rights Politics in Argentina and South Africa: Old Victims versus New Victims’ AILASA Conference, Sydney 27-29 September.
Humphrey, Michael & Valverde, Estela (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.
Humphrey, Michael (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.
Humphrey, Michael (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.
2005
Humphrey, Michael (2005) ‘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 November.
Humphrey, Michael (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.
Humphrey, Michael (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.