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Conference Schedule

UM Pakistan Conference 2017

Schedule

9:30 | Welcome Remarks: Farina Mir

9:40 | Introduction: Salman Hussain

9:45 - 11:00 | Masculinities in Everyday Life

Chair: Mrinalini Sinha

Nida Kirmani (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan)
“Gender, Mobility and Urban Violence: the View from Lyari”

Omar Kasmani (Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany)
"Neither. Nor. Trans: Notes on Dispensable Masculinities and the Promise of Thirdness"

11:00 | Coffee break

11:15 - 12:30 | Gender in Public and Online Spaces

Chair: Aswin Punathambekar

Fizzah Sajjad (LSE, London, UK)
"Gender Equity in Transport Planning"

Zehra Hashmi (University of Michigan)
"Biometric Belonging: Infrastructures of Security and Identity in Urban Pakistan"

12:30 - 1:45 | Lunch

1:45 - 3:00 | Gendered Selves in the Islamic Revival

Chair: Farina Mir

Faiza Mushtaq (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan)
"Organizational Routines and Religious Commitments: The Innovative Traditionalism of Al-Huda"

Arsalan Khan (Union College, NY, USA)
"Pious Masculinity: Gender, Ritual and Ethical Reflexivity in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan"

3:00 - 4:00 | Public Art: Writing on the Wall

Chair: Osman Khan

The Fearless Collective (Nida Mushtaq & Shilo Suleman): “Writing on the Wall”

4:00 | Coffee Break

4:15 - 4:30 | Anjali Arondekar (University of California, Santa Cruz) -- Discussant

4:30 - 5:30 | Open Discussion

5:30 | Coffee Break

6:00 - 7:00 | Poetry: Tarfia Faizulla