ELEVENTH LUMS HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CONFERENCE April 7-9, 2017 1
CONFERENCE PROGRAM PAKISTAN AT SEVENTY: THE LONG VIEW April 7, 2017 9:30 am: Opening Session Rasul Bakhsh Rais, LUMS, Introduction Ali Khan, Dean, LUMS, Welcome Remarks Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University Keynote Address: Pakistan at 70: The Long View 11:00 am: Tea Panel 1 11:30 am: The Parliament of Pakistan Chair: Muhammad Waseem, LUMS Moderator: Shaza Fatima Khawaja, Member National Assembly of Pakistan and Faculty, LUMS. Syed Jaffar Ahmed, University of Karachi The Role of Political Parties and the Parliamentary System of Pakistan: A Critical Appraisal Mahboob Hussain, University of the Punjab Sovereignty of Parliament as Constituent Assembly and Framing the Constitution of 1973 Zafarullah Khan, Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, Islamabad Parliamentary Inputs for the Rights Based Republic 1:00 pm: Lunch 2
2:00 pm: Parallel Sessions 2 & 3 Panel 2 Education, Citizenship and Identity - Seventy Years On Chair and Moderator: Tania Saeed, LUMS Marie Lall, University College London Citizenship in Pakistan - What Role for Education? Mariam Chughtai, Harvard University South Asia Institute; LUMS Religious Ideology and Citizenship: Shifting Narratives in the Education Policies and National Curricula of Pakistan" Faisal Bari, LUMS State of Education in Pakistan Tariq Rahman, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore Language in Education Policy: The Case of Pakistan with Special Reference to Mother Language Education (MLE) Panel 3 Environmental Vulnerability and Pakistan: Policy, Capacity and Action Chair and Moderator: Saba Pirzadeh, LUMS Mehak Masood, The Climate Reality Project, Infrastructure Development Authority, Punjab Strategic and Legal Impact of Environmental Reform in Pakistan Sanval Nasim, LUMS Environmental Valuation and Pricing: Pakistan s Fading Aquifers Hasan H Karrar, LUMS A Disaster Foretold? The Making and Remaking of the Attabad Disaster in the Karakoram High Mountain Region Perviaz Amir, Global Water Partnership, Islamabad Environmental Consciousness and Pakistani Society 4:00 pm: Tea 3
Panel 4 4:30 pm: Gender and the Nation Chair and Moderator: Rubina Saigol Safoora Arbab, University of California, Los Angeles Gender Tropologies and Nonviolent Resistance: The Pathans and the Khudai Khidmatgars Ghazal Asif, Johns Hopkins University Marrying into the State April 8, 2017 9:00 am: Keynote Address Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway University of London How Islamic Societies since 1800 have been Rebuilt from Below 10:00 am: Tea Panel 5 10:30 am: Ethnicity, Identity and Social Movements Chair and Moderator: Yunas Samad, LUMS Farhan Hanif Siddiqi, Quaid-e-Azam University Is Reconciliation Possible? Eighteenth Amendment and the Paradox of Intra-Provincial Ethnic Discord in Pakistan Sajid Mahmood Awan, National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research Ethnocentrism versus Xenocentrism in Pakistan: Pre and Post-Seventy Experience Saeed Ahmad Rid, Quaid-e-Azam University Pakistan at Seventy: Ethnicity and Federalism in Pakistan Mansoor Akbar Kundi, International Islamic University Alienation Factors in Balochistan 12:30 pm: Lunch 4
1:30 pm: Parallel Sessions: Panel 6 and Panel 7 Panel 6 Health Sector in Pakistan: Priorities, Problems and Solutions Chair and Moderator: Ayaz Qureshi, LUMS Ayaz Qureshi, LUMS Public-Private Partnership in Health: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS in Punjab Spenta Kakalia, CMH Lahore Medical College Indicators of Child Health in Pastoral Communities in the Karakoram and Hindu Kush High Mountain Regions, Pakistan Kaveri Qureshi, LUMS Panel 7 Where there is no Weighing Scale: Maternal and Neonatal Health Care in Pakistani Punjab The White Stripe: Minorities in Pakistan Chair and Moderator: Anushay Malik, LUMS Maria Magdaelene-Fuchs, Princeton University Traversing Holy Places: Conversion and Religious Identity in Late Colonial Punjab Ameem Lutfi, Duke University Towards a Polythetic History of Networked Baloch Ryan Brasher, Forman Christian College University National Identity amongst the Christian Minority in Pakistan: Impact on Political Involvement Grace Clark, Forman Christian College University Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Past, Present and Future Prospects 3:30 pm: Tea 5
Panel 8 4:00 pm: The Past and Future of Islam in Pakistan: Themes and Directions Chair and Moderator: Ali Usman Qasmi, LUMS Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway University of London The Long View of Islam in South Asia Ryan Calder, Johns Hopkins University State Shariah or Market Shariah? Islamic Dirigisme versus Neoliberal Piety in Pakistani and Iranian Banking, 1973-2017 Laila Bushra, LUMS Madrassas, Shrines, and Hybrids: The Diversity and Scope of Civic Islamism April 9, 2017 Panel 9 9:00 am: National Security and Foreign Relations Chair: Ambassador Shahryar Muhammad Khan, LUMS Moderator: Ahmed Rashid Feroz Khan, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Strategic Modernization and Changing Character of War Moeed Yusuf, United States Institute for Peace Regional Security Future Colin Cookman, United States Institute for Peace Geopolitical Shifts and Impact on Security 11:00 am: Tea 6
Panel 10 11:30 am: Governance and Bureaucracy Chair and Moderator: Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Supreme Court of Pakistan and LUMS Charles Kennedy, Wake Forest University Bureaucracy in Pakistan: Reforms and Transformations Saeed Shafqat, Forman Christian College University Improving Governance in Punjab Demands Reforming the Street Level Bureaucrat Ishtiaq Ahmad, University of Sargodha Pakistan s Democratic Politics and Regionalism Policy 1:30 pm: Lunch 2:30 pm: Parallel Sessions 11 & 12 Panel 11 Seventy Years of Pakistani Art & Architecture: Issues of Identity, Authenticity and Aesthetics Chair and Moderator: Nadra Shahbaz Khan, LUMS. Parvez Vandal, University of Culture and Art Seventy Years of Architecture and Still Seeking Identity Quddus Mirza, National College of Arts Seventy Years of Solitude: The Contemporary Art of Pakistan Asim Hameed, COMSATS "Reality of the Virtual: Code, Values and Aesthetics" 7
Panel 12 The Pakistani Economy Chair and Moderator: Husnain Fateh Ahmad, LUMS Abid Burki, LUMS Dynamics of Inequality in Pakistan Ali Cheema, LUMS and Zulifqar Hameed, Punjab Police Post-Colonial Policing Enters the New Millennium: Social Transformation and Effective Crime Control in Punjab Hadia Majid, LUMS Female Labor Supply in Pakistan: Mapping the Last Three Decades 8