Europe and Identity: A transcultural history of European communities in the Islamic world 1685-1800

该项目源于迫切需要在多元文化社会的背景下重新定义历史的概念。为了解决最近全球政治事件强化的历史叙事的相互敌意，我们必须开放欧洲历史，特别是启蒙运动的关键时期，让关于过去的包容性文化对话成为可能。该项目建立在与澳大利亚经常断绝联系的地区的良好对话记录的基础上，尽管澳大利亚政体中有重要的阿拉伯和土耳其社区。最近的冲突加强了在我们自己的多文化城市中开展这一跨文化对话的紧迫性。

This project originates from the pressing need to reconceptualize histories in the context of multicultural societies. To address the mutual hostility of the historical narratives reinforced by recent global political events, we must open European history, and particularly the crucial period of the Enlightenment, to an inclusive cultural dialogue about the past. This project is built on a strong track record of dialogue with a region from which Australia is too often disconnected, despite the significant Arab and Turkish communities within the Australian polity. Recent conflicts have reinforced the urgency of opening this cross-cultural dialogue within our own multicultural cities.