Events

Shifting Politics in Pakistan: Challenging Feudalism Nadeem Qureshi, Chairman of Mustaqbil Pakistan Chair: Professor Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and, Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. Nadeem Qureshi, the Chairman of Mustaqbil Pakistan, discusses […]

Overtaken by Events: A Pakistan Road Trip Ethan Casey, International Journalist, Editor, and Author Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is the account of Ethan Casey’s journey, entirely overland, starting in Mumbai, India — just three months after […]

Seeing the Frontier: Re-Visioning Histories of Pakistan Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University Watch the video here.

Environmental History and the Creation of Pakistan David Gilmartin, Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University Watch the seminar here. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

‘Progressives and Perverts’: Partition Stories and Pakistan’s Future Kamran Asdar Ali, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Shahab Ahmed, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University View the event on Vimeo here. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

Demystifying Pakistan Saadia Toor, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York Chair: Diane L. Moore, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Education and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School Video of this seminar can be found here. Co-sponsored […]

Blasphemy: Religion, History and Law in Pakistan Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Shahab Ahmed, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Committee on the Study of Religion and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Osama Siddique, Associate Professor, Department of Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences and SJD Candidate, Harvard Law […]