Conference Statement:
Studies of Pakistan have long been dominated by macro-political or security-centric lenses. While a new generation of scholars have interrogated these frames, and offered new and innovative ways of looking at Pakistan, many academic institutions have yet to fully integrate, and provide a forum, for such perspectives in teaching and research on Pakistan. This workshop aims to provide a dedicated space to innovative approaches to the study of Pakistan. The purpose is to provide graduate students with a specialised forum in which to share new scholarship and receive specialised feedback from both senior scholars of South Asia and peers in other institutions working on Pakistan.

Organisers:
University of Oxford: Rosalind O’Hanlon 
University of Cambridge: Mahvish Ahmad and Arif Naveed

Papers given:
Hadiqa Khan, University of Oxford
Archaeology in Pakistan: A Colonial Past and an Uncertain Future
Audio Podcast / Slides

Zahra Hussain, Durham University
The Significance of Architectural Pattern Language in Post-Disaster Scenarios

Arif Naveed, University of Cambridge
Educational Policies, Economic Agendas and Social Mobility in Pakistan
Audio Podcast / Slides

Mahvish Ahmad, University of Cambridge
Anxiety as a Technology of Rule: The Violent Crafting of Territory and Subjects in Balochistan

Zoha Waseem, King’s College London
Cops versus Soldiers: The Legitimacy of Karachi’s Dual Policing Mechanism

Saadia Gardezi, University of Oxford
Caricaturing the Military in Pakistan
Audio Podcast / Slides

Sara Kazmi, University of Cambridge
A Feminist Punjabiyat: The Poetry of Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti
Audio Podcast 

Aalene Mahum Aneeq, University of Oxford
The Aftermath of Independence: Gendering Pakistani History through the Lens of Fatima
Audio Podcast / Slides

Adeel Khan, University of Cambridge
Radical Deconstruction of Pakistani Masculinity
Audio Podcast