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  • Past Conferences:

  • 'Pakistan in the Current Global (Dis)order: Perspectives from the Social Sciences’
    Fri 14th-Sun 16th December 2007, Lahore School of Management Sciences (LUMS)

    This conference re-addressed some of the weaknesses in the current status of knowledge and discourse on Pakistan by going beyond intelligence and media concerns and exploring a broad range of themes related to globalization and transnationalism, and also to the national civil society.
     
    The aim to initiate an appropriately grounded academic discussion on the state of Pakistan and its communities, and placed the issue of religion in proper perspective by addressing other critical problems facing Pakistan today. We hosted panels and invited papers related especially to the following themes:
     
    The politics and economics of structural reform
    The new contestations of urban space
    The past and future of social movements
    The terrain of global versus local culture
    The role of media and Academia
    The role of Islam vis-à-vis the Pakistani state and society
     
    For further information please contact Marta Bolognani and Laila Bushra at lums.conf.07@gmail.com
     


  • 'South Asia Conference (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan) ’
    Fri 16th November 2007, CMC 1024 H.M. Michaux, Jr., School of Education Building, (NCCU)
    Theme: Crisis of Democracy, Governance Failure, Religious Extremism and Consequence on the Regional Business and Economy
     
    SPONSORED BY
    School of Business , North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
    North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies (NCCSAS)
    Association of Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB)
     
    Opening Remarks: Beverly Jones, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, NCCU
     
    8:30-9:00AM Opening
    9:00-10:30AM

    Crisis in Democracy/Political Instability
    moderator:Yasmin Saikia, UNC
    Roundtable Participants:
    stan kochanek (Keynote)
    Ali Riaz, ISU (Bangladesh)
    Bob Moog, NCSU (India)
    Charles Kennedy, WFU (Pakistan)
    10:30-10:45PM Refreshment Break
    10:45-12:15PM

    Economic and Business Consequences
    moderator: Asim Chakrabarty, VOA
    Roundtable Participants:
    Bijoy Sahoo (Keynote, India)
    ABM Nasir, NCCU (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
    12:15-1:00PM Lunch Break
    1:00-2:30PM Governance Failure
    moderator: Sandria Freitag
    Roundtable Participants:
    David Gilmartin, NCSU (Keynote)
    Ali Riaz, ISU (Bangladesh)
    Charles Kennedy, WFU (Pakistan)
    2:30-2:45PM Refreshment Break
    2:45-4:15PM Rise of Religious Extremism
    moderator: Anis Ahmed, VOA
    Roundtable Participants:
    Ali Riaz (Keynote)
    Stan Kochanek (Bangladesh)
    David Gilmartin (Pakistan)
    Yasmin Saikia (India)


    PUBLIC FORUM: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM Public event featuring representatives from the embassies of Bangladesh (Ambassador M Humayun Kabir), Pakistan (Deputy Chief of Mission M. Aslam Khan), and India , discussing the issues of the day's conference in the Auditorium.
     

    Coordinators:

    ABM Nasir, Ph.D.
    Sandria B. Freitag
    Assistant Professor of Economics, NCCU Associate Director, NCCSAS
    Durham, NC 27707. 109 Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
    Phone: (919) 530-7372 Phone: (919) 668-2146
    Emails: anasir@nccu.edu or nasnc@yahoo.com sandria.freitag@duke.edu




  • The Annual Conference on South Asia, October 11-14, 2007 featured a number of special panels on Pakistan. For more information, please check the conference website at http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/



  • Call for Papers-The 22nd Pakistan Workshop: 'Spaces of Dialogue'




  • January 12-14, 2007 - Conference on Islamic Identities, Gender & Higher Education in Pakistan (download PDF file here) Sponsored by American Institute of Pakistan Studies, in collaboration with Quaid-i-Azam University and others.