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Schedule
Friday, April 2, 2021
Opening Remarks (9:30-9:45)
Panel 1: Religious Thought and Tradition Among Differences (9:45-11:15)
Ali Usman Qasmi (Associate Professor of History, Lahore University of Management Sciences), “One Nation, One ‘Id?: Controversies About Moon Sightings in Pakistan”
SherAli Tareen (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin and Marshall College), “The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship”
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies, University of Freiburg), "Potentials of Periphery: How Pakistan's Religious Scholars Engage Global Islam”
Film-Screening Break (11:15-11:45)
The Making of Teesri Dhun (The Third Tune, 2015), Jo Range Sarange (Any Color You Like, My Love, 2015) and Vadhai (The Gift, 2019)
Performing Pieties (11:45-12:45)
Claire Pamment (Assistant Professor of World Theatre, The College of William and Mary), "Performing Pieties in Pakistan’s Transgender Rights Movement"
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Opening Remarks (9:30-9:45)
Panel 2: Crossing Islamic Frontiers (9:45-11:15)
Neelam Khoja (Inter-Asia Connections Postdoctoral Associate at the Macmillan Center, Yale University), "Afghan Spaces in Early Modern 'Pakistan"
Nosheen Ali (Global Faculty-in-Residence at the Gallatin School, New York University), "Mannkahat: Poetic Knowledge and Shah Abdul Latif through Sur"
Teren Sevea (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School), “Pakistan Dreams: Visions of Islamic Statehood from the East’”
Break (11:15-11:30)
Keynote: Jamal Elias (Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania) (11:30-1:00)
"Glimpsing History Through Literature's Window: Religious Sentiments, Emotional Styles, Punjabi Poets"
