Soas (Csp) Centre For The Study Of Pakistan

[SOAS] Workshop> Digital Humanities> Tuesday 13 September @ 2pm
Abstracts:
'Text Mining Medieval Charters: Perspectives from Two Projects'... Dr Roger Evans (University of Brighton)
This paper reports on two recent projects working with historians and archivists to unlock the potential of free text content in historical documents.
'The Research Environment for Ancient Documents: Digital Editions, Paleography and EpiDoc Integration' Dr Stefan Baums (University of Munich) and Stephen White (digital humanities software engineer, Venice)
The Research Environment for Ancient Documents (READ) is a new software system for the study of ancient texts and their physical carriers. This paper will discuss the design process behind READ, intended to meet the needs of broader user communities, and its current set of features.
More details: www.soas.ac.uk/…/asia-bey…/13sep2016- digital-humanities.html
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[SOAS South Asia Institute] Conference> The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia> 5-6 September
You are warmly invited to a cross-disciplinary international conference to celebrate SOAS’s centenary.
Over the two days of the conference, over thirty contributors from India, Europe, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the US and Singapore will address questions relating to the conceptualisation of heritage, the relationship between global and local evaluations of heritage, and... the contested politics of heritage in South Asia.
More details: www.soas.ac.uk/south-…/…/heritage-and -history-in-south-asia/
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[SOAS Politics] Talk: Democratic Dynasties by Dr. Kanchan Chandra, Thurs 9 June 4pm
Abstract Dr. Chandra's book, Democratic Dynasties, by studying dynastic politics in India, introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions – the state and political parties – which give political families a leg up in the electoral process.
... Further details available here: www.soas.ac.uk/politi…/…/09jun2016-de mocratic-dynasties.html
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[The British Library] Panel Discussion: Louis MacNeice’s 1948 radio features on India and Pakistan, Thurs 16 Jun 6pm
This event will feature highlights from Louis MacNeice's superbly panoramic, but also controversial, 1948 series of BBC radio features presenting a Westerner's view of India and Pakistan following Partition. Followed by panel discussion and Q&A with Aasiya Lodhi, lecturer in Radio and Journalism, University of Westminster, chaired by Amanda Wrigley, Research Fellow, University of Westminster.
Free but registration is required. Further details available at:www.bl.uk/…/louis-macneices-1948-rad io-features-on-india-an…

[SOAS CSP] Lecture: ISIS, Paris, Pakistan and the search for peace: conversations with an Islamic scholar, Fri 20 May, 6pm
For the CSP Annual Lecture 2016, we will welcome Professor Akbar Ahmed who will be in conversation with Professor Lord (Bhikhu) Parekh.
We will be screening 'Journey into Europe' on Sat 21 May, 5pm
... Both of these events are free to attend. Registration is required. Full details and to register visit: /www.soas.ac.uk/csp/events/
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[The Muslim South Asia Research Forum - MUSA] Seminar: Cultures of Fear: Community Journalism amidst Chronic Urban Unrest by Dr Laurent Gayer, Thurs 28 Apr 6.30pm
Abstract: “What You See Is What You Get”: Local Journalism and the Search for Truth in Lyari, Karachi
... Along with studying the discourse presented in Jânbâz, this contribution will focus on the critical engagement of its readers with the newspaper, asking how this newspaper is read by residents in terms of their understandings of local power struggles.
Full details via link below
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[SOAS CSP & SOAS South Asia Institute] Seminar: The new Pakistani consensus: Democracy as an agreed façade? by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot, Thurs 17 Mar 5pm
Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior research fellow at CERI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po (Paris), and research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute (London) and Global Scholar at Princeton University. He has been visiting professor at Columbia University, Yale and SAIS (Johns Hopkins).
Full details are available at www.soas.ac.uk/…/17mar2016-seminar-by-c hristophe-jaffrelot.…

[SOAS South Asia Institute] Fellowship: SOAS Charles Wallace Pakistan Fellowship, 2016-2017. Deadline 31 May 2016
One fellowship is awarded annually by the Centre for the Study of Pakistan (located within the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI)) and the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust to a scholar who has had no, or little, opportunity to conduct research outside Pakistan. The 3 month placement at SOAS, University of London should be taken predominantly during term-time (late September–mid December).
Full details available on: www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/schol arships/…/pakistan/

[SOAS Dept of Politics] Seminar: Envisaging a new South Asia by Dr. David Page, Aamir Ghauri, Ashutosh Shastri and Dr. Kiran Hassan, Mon 15 Feb 5pm
Synopsis: In the light of the information revolution in South Asia, regional economic challenges and overstretched energy resources in India and Pakistan, this discussion aims to encourage a reinvention of intellectual approaches towards South Asia and its upcoming challenges.
... Full details available on www.soas.ac.uk/…/events/15feb2016-envis aging-a-new-south-as…
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[SOAS alumni network] Film screening: MANTO: THE REBEL, THE WRITER, Weds 24 Feb 6.30pm
In aid of the Graham Layton Trust for free eye care for the poor in Pakistan, and co-hosted by the Centre for Pakistan Studies (SOAS), SOAS Alumni and Friends are invited to the London premiere of MANTO: THE REBEL, THE WRITER (English subtitles).
For the discounted student ticket rate (£5 per ticket), please send an email to soonu@glt.org.uk. Please note the following:... 1) You need to be a CURRENT student 2) Send the request from your student email account 3) You can only purchase one ticket per student 4) you'll need your student ID on the night.
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[SOAS CSP] Annual Lecture: ISIS, Paris, Pakistan and the search for peace: conversations with an Islamic scholar by Professor Akbar Ahmed, Fri 20 May 6pm
*Registration open*
Biography:... Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He has served as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and was the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Ahmed belonged to the senior Civil Service of Pakistan and was the Pakistan High Commissioner to the U.K. and Ireland.
Further details and online registration available at: www.soas.ac.uk/…/20may2016-isis-paris-p akistan-and-the-sear…
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[SOAS South Asia Institute] Film: Zinda Bhaag | Rachel Dwyer (SOAS) in conversation with director Dr Meenu Gaur , Fri 29 Jan 5pm
Synopsis “‘Get out if you can’ is both the translation of ‘Zinda Bhaag’ and the credo its characters live by. Pakistan’s first official Oscar entry in 50 years is this surprisingly realistic slice-of-life depiction of life in Lahore. Three friends Khaldi, Chitta and Tambi literally beg, borrow, and steal to get by in their everyday lives while they ...look westward for something more than mere existence. The potential cost of this dream: Financial servitude, legal minefields, and very real emotional and physical danger.
Full details available on: http://www.soas.ac.uk/south-as…/…/29j an2016-zinda-bhaag.html
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[SOAS CSP] *REMINDER* Seminar: Can commerce cover the umma? National and regional taste by Reina Lewis, TONIGHT at 5.15pm
Abstract: For many Muslim women the adoption of covered, or modest, dressing has become integral to the cultivation of pious dispositions, with new markets developing for modest apparel. Whilst professional marketers in Islamic branding celebrate potentially transnational markets for Islamic/modest fashion, this chapter uses sociological approaches to ever...yday religion alongside critical marketing studies to investigate the advantages and risks posed to fashion designer/entrepreneurs and consumers once Muslims are constructed as a consumer segment.
All welcome. No booking required.
Further details available on: www.soas.ac.uk/…/21jan2016-can-commerce -cover-the-umma-nati…
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[SOAS South Asia Institute] Talk: The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities by Amanullah De Sondy, Weds 3 Feb 5pm
Synopsis In order to evaluate whether there really is only one valid, ideal Islamic masculinity, Dr de Sondy, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam at University College Cork in Ireland, will explore key figures of the Qur'an and Indian-Pakistani Islamic history, to expose the precariousness of tight constraints on Islamic manhood.
... Free and open to all. No registration required.
For further details visit: www.soas.ac.uk/…/03feb2016-the-crisis-o f-islamic-masculinit…
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[Asia Research Centre] Lecture: Developments in Relations Between Pakistan and India by Mr Zahid Hussain, Fri 22 Jan 6.30pm
Synopsis: Following the election of a new government in India and recent increased high-level contact between the two countries, Zahid Hussain will discuss challenges and current prospects for change in Pakistan and India’s bilateral relations.
... For further details visit: www.lse.ac.uk/asiaResea…/…/individual /2016/ZahidHussain.aspx
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[SOAS CSP] Seminar: Can commerce cover the umma? National and regional taste by Reina Lewis, Thurs 21 Jan 5.15pm
Abstract: For many Muslim women the adoption of covered, or modest, dressing has become integral to the cultivation of pious dispositions, with new markets developing for modest apparel. Whilst professional marketers in Islamic branding celebrate potentially transnational markets for Islamic/modest fashion, this chapter uses sociological approaches to everyday reli...gion alongside critical marketing studies to investigate the advantages and risks posed to fashion designer/entrepreneurs and consumers once Muslims are constructed as a consumer segment.
All welcome. No booking required.
Further details available on: www.soas.ac.uk/…/21jan2016-can-commerce -cover-the-umma-nati…
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[SOAS CSP] Talk: State and Nation-building in Pakistan: beyond Islam and Security by Professor Gurharpal Singh, Professor Ian Talbot and Professor Sarah Ansari, Thurs 8 Jan 5.30pm
Synopsis: The central argument of the work is that these challenges are to be found not in contemporary developments, but the underlying causes that can be traced to the creation of the state ,and the subsequent thwarted process of nation and state-building that leaves ‘wrong-sized’ and prone to insecurity, militarisation, and with a democratic deficit.
For further details visit: www.soas.ac.uk/…/07jan2016-state-and-na tion-building-in-pak…