Major International Conference on Challenges Facing Pakistan at Sarah Lawrence College April 4 -5
Mar. 26, 2014: An international conference on historical realities and current challenges facing the country of Pakistan will be held at Sarah Lawrence College in New York on April 4 and 5.
Re-Envisioning Pakistan: The Political Economy of Social Transformation will bring together scholars representing various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, writers, journalists, and activists from Pakistan, the UK, and the US with a range of perspectives.
According to the organizers, SLC sociology faculty member Shahnaz Rouse and economics faculty member Jamee Moudud, Pakistan's socio-economic and political history has conventionally been analyzed and based on an orthodox "modernization" paradigm and a politics of governance that has been focused narrowly on questions of security while paying lip service to democracy. As against such approaches, this conference provides an alternative framework on Pakistan, one that moves beyond the headlines and simplistic understandings of Pakistan toward a more complex and nuanced approach to the place and its diverse "publics."
The keynote speaker is women's and human rights activist Hina Jilani, director of AGHS Legal Aid Cell, and advocate to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Ms. Jilani is internationally renowned for her work on human rights within and outside Pakistan.
The conference will be of interest to specialists on Pakistan, as well as activists and members of the general public interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the processes of socioeconomic and political transformation in Pakistan and within countries of the global south more generally.
Additional information and registration can be found at www.re-envisioningpakistan.org.
The conference is sponsored by the Donald C. Samuel Fund for Economics and Politics at Sarah Lawrence College, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the American Institute for Pakistan Studies, the Sarah Lawrence College student senate, and others.
The following presentations are currently scheduled for the conference:
Battlelines: Women in/and Conflict
Nighat Saeed Khan, ASR, Lahore
Beyond Redundancy
Haris Gazdar, Senior Researcher, Collective for Social Research, Karachi
Domination and Resistance: Class and Power in Local Punjab
Mohammad Ali Jan, Oxford University, International Development
Dynastic Politics, Political Parties, and Electoral Competition in Punjab
Ali Cheema, Senior Research Fellow, IDEAS, and Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences, with Hassan Javid, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Empowering Citizens: Grassroots Governance Reform in the Pakistani Electrical Power Sector
Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University
Enclosed Within: Women, Peace and the Political Economy of Conflict (Illustrated through Swat, Pakistan)
Khawar Mumtaz, Chairperson, National Commission on Women, Pakistan, and Maleeha Aslam, Researcher
Ethnic Federalism in Pakistan: Federal Design, Construction of Ethno-Linguistic Identity & Group Conflict
Maryam S. Khan, Independent Researcher
Fiction: "To Live": An Examination of Contemporary Karachi's Social Realities
Bilal Tanweer, Writer
From Domination to Intermediation: A Tale of Social Transformation, Punjabi Style
Shandana Khan Mohmand, Institute of Development Studies (UK)
Having "Faith" in Social Transformation: Women's Secular Resistance to Faith-based Development in Pakistan
Afiya Shehrbano Zia, Independent Scholar, Karachi
Judicialization of Politics: Pakistan Supreme Court's Jurisprudence after the Lawyers' Movement
Osama Siddique, Department of Law & Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Perils of Politicization: Courts and the Question of Religious Difference in Pakistan
Sadia Saeed, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale University
Popular Movements and the Transition to Democracy: The Case of the Labor Movement in Pakistan and Bangladesh, 1965-1971
Anushay Malik, History Department, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Reporting Conflict
Zahid Hussain, Award-winning Journalist and Writer, Islamabad
State, Capital, and Expertise: Financing and Contesting the Indus Basin Plan, 1960-1970
Majed Akhter, Department of Geography, Indiana University-Bloomington
States of Contention: Culture and Nationalism in Pakistan
Saadia Toor, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work, CUNY
The Enclosure of Public Waters in Punjab and the Struggle of Indigenous Fishers
Hashim bin Rashid, Independent Journalist, Graduate Student, Columbia University
The Making of Teachers: Discourses in Higher Education
Sara Zubair, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Political Origins of Economic Reform in Pakistan: 1979-1989
Khurram Husain, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC
The Right to Life and the Right to Compensation in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
Saba Gul Khattak, Independent Researcher, Islamabad
Transactions with God: Finance and Remembrance in Karachi's Marketplace
Noman Baig, University of Texas
Urbanization and Political Change in Pakistan--Exploring the Known Unknowns
Daanish Mustafa, Department of Geography, King's College, London
What's Land Got to do with Class? The Afterlife of Moral Economy in Pakistan
Mubbashir Rizvi, Georgetown University, Anthropology Faculty
Wounds of Waziristan: Ethnography of a Kill Site
Manan Ahmed Asif, Columbia University, with Madiha Tahir, Independent Journalist
Photo of poster courtesy Judith Schwartzstein, Director of Public Affairs, Sarah Lawrence College
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