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Spring 2019 from the Dean’S Desk Newsletter of the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences Spring 2019 From the Dean’s Desk Dear Colleagues, Students and CONTENTS Friends, Punjabi Returns to LUMS The fourth issue of Guftugu is with you. The newsletter helps us share the HSS Annual Conference breadth and intellectual vibrancy of the MGSHSS. This semester was especially Humanities and Social Sciences Seminar busy; we had several highly successful Series and well attended international The Newsletter is the conferences, workshops, symposia, and Queer Futures seminars. Where events related to art, official voice of the Office aesthetics, book launches, and literary of the Dean, Mushtaq External Scholar Interview: Dr. Anjali discussions were a weekly feature, there Ahmad Gurmani School we also focused on social issues around Arondekar of Humanities and Social gender equity, analysed the past election, Sciences, LUMS. and created forums to discuss social Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature marginality. Gurmani Centre’s Workshops Along with these progresses, we have Saida Waheed Gender Initiative We would like to thank been busy with hiring new faculty Anam Fatima Khan and and consolidating new programmatic initiatives. As MGSHSS seeks to become Mahbub Ul Haq Research Center Ateeb Gul for their work the center of cultural life on the LUMS on this issue and for their campus, Guftugu is developing as the Faculty News contributions to it. We are vehicle to represent our efforts in its also grateful to Nazish Riaz pages. As always, it represents the Heads of Departments Head for Sabbatical for helping out with the best of what we offer as a School and pictures. highlights the creativity, dedication to Faculty Interview: Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan excellence, and the vision of our faculty, Faculty Interview: Dr. Khalid Mir Special mention must students, and staff. be made of the Out in the Open photographer Faizan Our guftugu continues. Ahmad, whose pictures Pakistan@100: Future of Policing have been used for the front and back covers, as Korea Calls well as for some articles within this issue. A Debate on Military Courts The layout has been FemSoc—Feminism, Society, and Freedom of designed by Nazish Riaz. Speech We also thank the authors who not only provided us with the write-ups but also pictures to go along with them. 2 Conferences at MGSHSS Punjabi Returns to LUMS Ammara Ahmad In a first, LUMS has started a new Grierson distinguished various shrines in a community. Eventually, tradition of organising a Punjabi nationalities by language and attempted everyone on the panel and in the room conference around the Mother to distinguish them from one another started lamenting the role of the previous Language Day (February 21). The second despite being similar. A heated discussion Punjab government for wreaking havoc such conference was organised this year followed this stimulating lecture. with heritage sites without paying any and this time the focus was the Punjab— attention to vociferous protesters. its culture, history, and language. Punjabi Ajay Bhardwaj, a documentary filmmaker, scholars, writers, academics, activists, and presented his film “Kitte Mil Vay Mahi” There was a session on the Indian artists from all over the world gathered (Where the Twain Shall Meet). The movie Partition, a very significant event in the at LUMS. The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani was a poignant representation of the history of the Punjab and the Punjabi School of Humanities and Social Sciences syncretic culture of rural Punjab and language. Professor Furrukh Khan of LUMS at LUMS was able to come up with an focuses on how those from the fringes of presented his documentary on the eclectic mix of speakers and topics. the society—low castes, revolutionaries, experiences of women survivors of the rural poor, and gypsies—still find Partition in the Pakistani Punjab, titled Professor Javed Majeed, a doctorate from space for themselves in the environs of Stories of the Broken Self. Dr. Pippa Virdee Oxford, delivered the inaugural lecture. the shrines of long-dead mystics. led the discussion that followed the film He presented his research on Sir George screening. Abraham Grierson, an Irish linguist who The session on the “New Histories of published the Linguistic Survey of India Lahore” brought writers and researchers Academic Ilyas Chattha shared his in 1928. Majeed pointed out some of the like Haroon Khalid, Tahir Kamran, Ammara research on the Partition riots in areas problems in the survey and Grierson’s Maqsood, and Ghafir Shehzad (an surrounding his native Gujranwala. Sara own approach. This was a befitting start Auqaf Department official) together. Khalid Kazmi conducted the session on “Re- to the conference. mentioned how the people’s history and sistance Poetry from Punjab” that had narrative of a place differ from the official respectable names like Tauqeer Chughtai, version while Shehzad, the Auqaf official, Zubair Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmed described the significance of Tahiri, and Anjum Qureshi on the panel. 3 Dr. Anne Murphy presented her thesis on the evolution of Baba Guru Nanak’s image over the centuries. The founder of Sikhism has gradually become a more sophisticated and less rural version of his old self. This has also changed how his admirers interpret his poetry. The conference was well-attended and most of the sessions were either fully or partially conducted in Punjabi. The speakers, as well as the guests and the attendees, gradually became more comfortable with the language. Last year, it was impossible to think about how the conference could be improved but this year it has taken a step forward. More They all agreed that Punjabi is a language sessions on more diverse issues like of resistance and has survived all Punjabi cinema, theatre, the history of suppression. They attributed this leftist politics, emerging fiction, and tenacity of the Punjabi language to the poetry were organised to cater to lower economic strata who have still not everyone’s intellectual needs. The adopted other languages of the elites. conference concluded on the last day with Punjabi poets like Najam Hussain Syed, an equally nourishing rendition of Heer. Mushtaq Soofi, Ashoo Lal Faqir, and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti were read and The leadership of Gurmani School was applauded in this session. not only present but also deeply invested in the proceedings. One can only imagine Zainab Sattar led a session on teaching how much more exciting this conference regional languages and literature. Ashok will become in the coming years. Kumar, a Sindhi professor from Mithi who is currently teaching at the Punjab University, expressed his views on teaching Punjabi. 4 5 HSS Annual Conference Critical Interventions: Mapping Emerging Scholarship on South Asia The conference brought together humanities and social sciences scholars whose work interrogated the concept of South Asia as reality and construct. The two-day conference comprised 30 panels with presentations by over a 100 scholars from Pakistan, India, the UK, France, the US, and Canada. The panels showcased research on a variety of subjects such as regional conflict, nationalist formations, urban development, political governance, education reform, gender contestations, indigenous literature, knowledge production, popular culture, and environmental concerns. The Department of Humanities and Social There were two keynote addresses. The In his lecture, titled Beyond the Narrative: Sciences at LUMS hosted its Thirteenth first was delivered by Dr. Asma Abbas Recovering the Personal and Emotional in Annual Conference on April 10 and 11, 2019. (Professor of Politics and Aesthetics at History, Dr. Elias located the personal as an The conference was Bard College and Dean at the Indus Valley important motivator in human actions and co-sponsored by the Shahid Hussain School of Art and Architecture, Karachi). argued for the importance of human Foundation and the Mahbub Ul Haq Dr. Abbas’s address, titled Anticolonial experience as a valid source of Research Center at LUMS. Maps for Lost Lovers: Notes on the Aesthetics and Politics of Method, explored information and motivation in writing historical narratives. The theme for this year’s conference was the entrapments of neoliberal knowledge Critical Interventions: Mapping Emerging production and social reproduction that The first day of the conference included Scholarship on South Asia, and was predominate in the wider post-colony. The the launch of the Mahbub Ul Haq Research convened by Dr. Saba Pirzadeh and second was delivered by Professor Jamal J. Center with a discussion on Humanizing Dr. Sameen Mohsin Ali. Elias (Professor of Humanities and Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania). the State: Mainstreaming Human Security in Pakistan’s National Security Narrative. The centre also hosted a panel on Women in Politics with MPAs Hina Parvez Butt, Maleeha Bokhari, and Malaika Raza. An art exhibit—Dhaak Ke Teen Pat (Three Leaves of the Flaming Tree)—ran in parallel to the conference. Bibi Hajra Cheema exhibited work that focuses on the role of trees in a rapidly changing Lahore. She spoke about her inspiration from Punjabi folklore that featured trees as sites of women’s agency, romance, physical and emotional healing, and divinity. The conference featured multiple thematic panels with scholars, academics, and activists. We highlight three panels in this article. 4 5 Panel: South Asian Literature and the Episteme Aima Nisar mere childish entertainment to a story about the amalgamation of the fantastical and the material in early Islamic culture. Dr. Habibah Rizvi, too, interpreted a vital text in the South Asian literary canon in a new light: Faiz’s Ham Jo Tareek Rahon Mein Maray Gaye. The poem, usually considered a metaphor for the poet’s relationship with the state, was reworked in terms of its aesthetic value. The themes of sorrow and beauty were expressed in the same Romantic tone as John Keats. By drawing a comparison with a Western writer, Dr.
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