Events Archive

Over the years, the Institute has offered diverse Pakistan-related programming. Some of the more recent events are listed below. 
Click the title link to view more information about the event, including video of many events.

Fall 2018

• Raza Rumi | Democracy and its Discontents - Project Naya Pakistan: The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture for 2018
• Sandow Birk: American Qur'an
• Salam - The First ** Nobel Laureate (Screening)

Spring 2018

• William E. B. Sherman | A Practice of Revelation: Apocalypse, Vernacular, and Identity along the Afghan Frontier (Lecture by the S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies Winner for 2018)
• Arthur Dudney | Testing the Limits of Comparatism: The Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns in Persian and Urdu Literary Culture
• Gregory Maxwell Bruce | Travels through Four Languages: Shibli's Great Journey 
• Teena Purohit | The “Protestant” Impulse in Modern Islamic Thought

Fall 2017

• David Gilmartin | Pakistan's Creation and the Contested Grand Narratives of 20th Century History
• Samira Sheikh | Aurangzeb: A Gujarati Badshah?
• Ejaz Hussain | Neither Transition nor Transformation: Hybridization of Civil-Military Relations in Contemporary Pakistan

Spring 2017

• Eye on South Asia: Challenges to Development and Democracy in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
• Kirti Jain | Performing Partition: On Producing "Aur Kitne Tukde" (How Many Fragments?)
• Ayesha Siddiqa | Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Changing Domestic, Regional and Global Environment
• Katherine Schofield | The Place of Pleasure: Music in Mughal Thought and Society, 1593–1707

Fall 2016

• Jonathan Mark Kenoyer | The Indus Civilization - Changing Perspectives on Regional Origins, Diverse Character and Complex Legacy
• Ali Eteraz | Native Believer: A Novel

Spring 2016

• The Domestic Crusaders: A Dramatic Comedy in English by Wajahat Ali
• Significance of Pakistan-US relations towards security and stability in South Asia: Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States
• Timurid Sovereignty in pre-Mughal India
• Into that Heaven of Freedom: The impact of Apartheid on an Indian Family’s Diasporic History
• The West is a Career: Pakistan's Shi'i Islam between the local and the transnational
• Adab as Mobility, between early modern Iran and India
• Making Indian Migrants - National Branding and Localized Disruptions in the Migration of Workers to the Persian Gulf
• The Potential and Challenges of Customer Feedback in the Public Sector: Zubair Bhatti makes a case for Pakistan

Fall 2015

• The Pakistan Paradox: The 3rd Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture by Christophe Jaffrelot
• Manto, A film by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat: A screening with Director present
• Political Poetry in Contemporary Pakistan: An Evening with Pakistani Poet and Nonfiction Writer Harris Khalique
• Learning from Lahore: A talk by Will Glover on the urban history of the city and the country across the long twentieth century

Spring 2015

• Housetalk and the Limits of Conversion: South Asian Domestic Workers' New Found Islamic Pieties in the Greater Arabian Peninsula
• The S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies Award Ceremony: Lecture by the 2015 Award Winner, Dr. Amber H. Abbas, Pakistan: Beyond the Security State
• Orphanhood and the Art of Not Being Cared For
• [Report] Fixing Pakistan's Education: Innovative Solutions for a major Challenge 
  • Munis Faruqui - Welcome​
  • Salman Humayun​ - Synergizing Technical and Political Interface for Education Reforms​
  • Shashi Buluswar ​- ​Technological Innovations for Education Reform in Pakistan Part 1
  • Bilal Musharraf​ - ​Technology Interventions in a Developing Education Ecosystem
  • Ameen Jan​ - ​Implementing Technology Solutions in Education
  • Sanaa Riaz​ - ​Technology and Second Language Learning in Pakistani Public Schools
  • Shashi Buluswar ​- ​Technological Innovations for Education Reform in Pakistan Part II
  • Adil Ajmal​ - ​Panel Discussion "Technological Solutions"
  • Amjad Noorani​ - ​The Role of NGOs and Donors in Education Reform
  • ​Umair Khan - ​Panel Discussion "Social & Policy Challenges & Opportunities"

Fall 2014

• Urdu Cinema During the 1950s
• Religion, State and Society in Pakistan - Searching for Identity in an ex-Colonial State and Elite Circulation: The 2nd Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture by Ayesha Siddiqa
• The Scatter here is too Great: Book talk by author, Bilal Tanweer
• How to (Really) Fix Pakistan's Education System: A Talk by LUMS Dean, Anjum Altaf

Spring 2014

• Talking with the Pakistani Taliban
• The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World
• Fiction and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: In conversation with Mohsin Hamid
• Kala Pul (The Black Bridge)
• Mangoes, Alice, and the Missing Baloch: In conversation with Mohammed Hanif

Fall 2013

• Democratic Transitions in Pakistan and its Impact on Human Rights
• No Exit from Pakistan: America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad

Spring 2013

• Higher Education in Pakistan: Designing a Liberal Core for Post-Colonial Pakistan
• Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
• Fierce Courage: Muslim Women's Transformative Activism

Fall 2012

• Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands
• 'The Evidence of Things Not Seen'?: An Artist's Explorations of Afghanistan's 21st Century Reconstructions and 20th Century Histories.
• Afghans Look at 2014
• Constructing “Home” in Transnational Spaces: The Case of Japanese-Pakistani Muslim Families
• Partition of India: Debates in History and Literature

Spring 2012

• Environmental History and the Creation of Pakistan
• Sources of Tension: Pakistan, Its Neighbors and Regional Security
• Why foreign aid does not work in countries like Pakistan
• Why Pakistan Matters
• Musings on Pakistan
• Changing perspectives on the Indus Civilization: New insights from excavations in Pakistan and India

Fall 2011

• What Went Wrong?: Tracing the Troubled Trajectory of Development, Governance and Security in Pakistan, 1947-2011
• Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself
• Guftugu: Celebrating Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Guftugu: Contemporary Pakistani Art
• Pakistan and the US - Challenges and Opportunities
• Poetry, Power, Protest: Re-imagining Muslim Nationhood in Northern Pakistan

Spring 2011

• The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement

Fall 2010

• Breaking the Silence: Women in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Afghanistan - A Unit of Analysis: Round Table Discussion
• The Pakistan Flood Crisis: An Alternate Perspective
• Islam, Youth and New Media

Spring 2010 and earlier

• Hamid Mir -- The Resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan" | Media
• Abid Hasan Minto -- The Pakistani Crisis: On the current situation in the sub-continent and India-Pakistan Relations
• Ahmad Salim --  Preservation and Promotion of Archives in Pakistan | Media
• Huma Yusuf -- The War Against Terror : Five Reasons for the Persistence of Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
• Alice Albinia -- Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River