This conference was made possible with the generous co-sponsorhips by: the Institute for the Humanities, the Rackahm Graduate School, the Department of History, the History of Art Department, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology, the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, the Residential College, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and The American Institute of Pakistan Studies. This event is free and open to the public.
March 30, 2019
Conference Schedule
10:00a
Opening Remarks
10:15a
Capital Flows
Amen Jaffer (Lahore University of Management
Sciences): Discarded Flows: Circulation and Value in Lahore's Waste Economy
Maira Hayat (Stanford University): 10 km of responsibility: Adjudications of the public-ness of water in Pakistan
12:30p
The Social Life of Capital
Nicolas Martin (University of Zurich): Democracy and Discrimination: Comparing Caste-Based Politics in Indian and Pakistani Punjab
Muhammad Ali Jan (University of Oxford): The social origins of capital: trajectories of industrialization in Pakistani Punjab
1:45p
Public Art
Saima Zaidi (Habib University): Sheherezade: The Walled City Anthology
2:45p
Documentary Film (w/ Discussion after)
Perween Rahman:The Rebel Optimist by Filmmaker Mahera Omar
4:00-5:00pm
Discussion