FRIDAY, APRIL 4

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Panel 1: THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE: GENDER, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY

Battlelines: Women in/and Conflict
Ms. Nighat Saeed Khan, Researcher at the Applied Social Research Resource Centre (ASR)/ Institute of Women's Studies Lahore (IWSL)

Domination and Resistance: Class and Power in Local Punjab
Mr. Muhammad Ali Jan, Doctoral candidate in International Development at Oxford University

What's Land got to do with Class? The Afterlife of Moral Economy in Pakistan
Dr. Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University

Ethnic Federalism in Pakistan: Federal Design, Construction of Ethno-Linguistic Identity & Group Conflict
Maryam Khan, Assistant Professor of Law and Policy at Lahore University of Management Sciences

Panel 2: THE GLOBAL ORDER AND THE STATE OF PAKISTAN

The Political Origins of Economic Reform in Pakistan: 1979 – 1989
Mr. Khurram Husain, Journalist

The Informal Sector, Social Protection and Neo-liberalization: A Gender–based Perspective
Ms. Rubina Saigol, Independent Scholar

The Right to Life and the Right to Compensation in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
Dr. Saba Gul Khattak, Independent Researcher, Pakistan

Karachi: Beyond Redundancy
Ms. Khawar Mumtaz, Chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women, Islamabad and Dr. Maleeha Aslam, Head of Gender and Human Security

Panel 3: RELIGION, LAW, AND SEXUALITY

Perils of Politicization: Courts and the Question of Religious Difference in Pakistan
Dr. Sadia Saeed, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Yale University

Transactions with God: Finance and Remembrance in Karachi’s Marketplace
Mr. Noman Baig, doctoral candidate in Anthropology

Having ‘Faith’ in Social Transformation: Women's Secular Resistance to Faith-based Development in Pakistan
Ms. Afiya Zia, Independent Researcher, Pakistan

Khwaja Sira: Gendered Bodies, Rights and Taxonomic Regulation
Mr. Faris Ahmed Khan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology, Syracuse University

Keynote Address:
MS. HINA JILANI, Director AGHS Legal Aid Cell, Lahore, Pakistan; Human Rights Activist and Advocate

SATURDAY, APRIL 5

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Panel 1: LAND, CLASS, AND POWER

From Domination to Intermediation: A Tale of Social Transformation, Punjabi Style
Dr. Shandana Momand, Research Fellow, Governance Team, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Urbanization and Political Change in Pakistan--Exploring the Known Unknowns
Dr. Daanish Mustafa, Reader in Geography at King's College, London

Dynastic Politics, Political Parties, and Electoral Competition in Punjab
Dr. Ali Cheema, Associate Professor of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences and Dr. Hassan Javid, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Judicialization of Politics: Pakistan Supreme Court’s Jurisprudence after the Lawyers’ Movement
Dr. Osama Siddique, Associate Professor of Law and Policy at Lahore University of Management Sciences

Panel 2:DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING FROM THE SERIES: The Other Half of Tomorrow

INTRODUCTION AND DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE SCREENING WITH THE FILM MAKERS:
Ms. Sadia Shephard (Director/Producer)

Panel 3: CRITICAL PRACTICES/CONTESTED SPACES

Reporting Conflict
Mr. Zahid Hussain, Journalist

States of Contention: Culture and Nationalism in Pakistan
Dr. Saadia Toor, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, City University of New York-Staten Island

Wounds of Waziristan: Ethnography of a Kill Site
Dr. Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University and Ms. Madiha Tahir, Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University

‘To Live’: An Examination of Contemporary Karachi’s Social Realities
Mr. Bilal Tanweer, Creative Writing at Lahore University of Management Sciences: Fiction

CLOSING REMARKS