Alienated Nations, Fractured States: Afghanistan and Pakistan

Presented by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

• Sessions from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm open ONLY to Stanford Faculty and Students
• The 4:30 pm session is OPEN TO PUBLIC

Stanford Faculty and Students who RSVP will receive workshop papers when the papers become available.

RSVP at link or by email to abbasiprogram@stanford.edu

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

9:00 - 10:30 am: Border Crossings
Moderator: Parna Sengupta, Introduction to Humanities Program, Stanford University

• Amin Tarzi, Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University
  “Yaghistan Revisited: The Struggle for Domination of Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands”
• James Caron, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  “Divisive Hegemonies and Interlinked Publics: Case Studies of Religious Scholarship and Social Awareness in Afghanistan and the North West Frontier Province, 1930-2008”
• Jamal Elias, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  “Identity, Modernity and Meaning in Pukhtun Truck Decoration”

10:30 -11 am: Coffee Break

11 am- 12:30 pm: Molding Minds and Bodies
Moderator: Steve Stedman, Center for Security and International Cooperation, Stanford University

• Tahir Andrabi, Economics, Pomona College
  “Religious Schooling in Pakistan and its Relation to Other Schooling Options: A Disaggregated Analysis”
• Farzana Shaikh, Asia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs
  “Will the ‘right’ kind of Islam save Pakistan?: The Sufi Antidote”
• Fariba Nawa, Journalist, Fremont
  “Opium Nation”

2:00- 4:00 pm: Nations, Tribes, and Others
Moderator: Aishwary Kumar, Department of History, Stanford University

• Gilles Dorronsoro, The Carnegie Endowment
  “Religious, Political and Tribal Networks in the Afghan War”
• Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Department of History, James Madison University
  “Epistemological Quandaries of the Afghan Nation: Mobility, Territoriality and The Other”
• Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network
  “How Tribal Are the Taleban?”
• Lutz Rzehak, Humboldt University
  “How to Become a Baloch? The Dynamics of Ethnic Identities in Afghanistan”

4:00- 4:30 pm: Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 pm: Public Session: The Global Politics of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Moderators:

• Shahzad Bashir, Religious Studies, Stanford University
• Robert Crews, Department of History, Stanford University

[Co-sponsored with CISAC, Center for South Asia, Department of History, CREEES]

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