Centre for Governance and Policy

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫!
We have a Booker Prize Winner coming to Kellogg College, University of Oxford as part of the conference, ‘Minoritisation in South Asia: Religion, Caste, Gender’.

Venue: The Hub, Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Day 1 timing: 10 AM to 6 PM, June 27
Day 2 timing: 930 AM to 6 PM, June 28

The conference is free and open to all. The programme is in the link.

Eventbrite In-person event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minoritisation-in-south-asia-religion-caste-gender-tickets-928521441627?aff=oddtdtcreator

Eventbrite Online event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minoritisation-in-south-asia-religion-caste-gender-tickets-928535262967?aff=oddtdtcreator

Prorgram PDF link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaOUhDP6kAYLF1Hdw4OaHASBSRbqIO-I/view?usp=sharing

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞: Please join us on 27,28 June at Kellogg College, University of Oxford for this free and open to all interdisciplinary academic conference bringing together scholars working on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 to get your free attendee ticket.

Please join us if you are in the UK for what hopes to be a fantastic event. The conference will also be live-streamed for anyone who can not attend in person.

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minoritisation-in-south-asia-religion-caste-gender-tickets-928521441627?aff=oddtdtcreator

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minoritisation-in-south-asia-religion-caste-gender-tickets-928535262967?aff=oddtdtcreator

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐏𝐃𝐅 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kqY9lGw1eWHz8A4tR7uDlZnxNhbMygBU/view?usp=sharing

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞:
27 June: 10 AM to 6 PM British Summer Time
28 June: 10 AM to 6 PM British Summer Time

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 for an interdisciplinary academic conference bringing together scholars working on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. It will take place at the end of this month at Kellogg College, University of Oxford on June 27-28, 2024. The conference is free and open to all. No ticket or pass is required. The full programme will be released soon.

Please join us if you are in the UK for what hopes to be an engaging event. The conference will also be live-streamed for anyone who can not attend in person.

Somethings change, while others remain constant…

Was There Anything Truly Historic About Pakistan’s 2024 Elections? Despite the fact that Pakistan has now completed three parliamentary terms of five years each, democracy has not progressed in the country.

Don't miss our opening Keynote panel with Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Former Federal Finance Minister Ismail and former MPA Punjab Jugnu Mohsin

We are delighted to welcome Hamid Mir-- a name which is listened to and trusted in Pakistan to

Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and writer. Born in Lahore to a journalistic family, Mir initially worked as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers. He has hosted the political talk show Capital Talk on Geo News intermittently since 2002.

Hamid Mir has survived two assassination attempts, has been banned from television three times, and has lost his job twice due to his stand for press freedom and human rights.

He was awarded with the civil award Hilal-i-Imtiaz for his work for Pakistan. In 2016, he was awarded the "Most Resilient Journalist Award" in The Hague by Free Press Unlimited.

Don't miss out his captivating sessions scheduled at the ThinkFest 2024, January 13-14, at the Alhamra, Mall Road.

The second major follow-up conference titled 'Christianity and Christians in Pakistan' is happening in Lahore, Pakistan. Scholars working in history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, literature, law, IR, and other fields are all welcome! Please apply if interested.

Outcome:
Major outcomes of this conference will be a special issue of a leading journal based on selected papers, a handbook of Christianity in Pakistan, and policy papers and briefs.

Process:
To participate in the conference, please send a 200-word abstract with a copy of your CV to [email protected] by midnight GMT on November 15, 2023.

Website link for Call for Papers:
https://ohh.web.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-international-conference-christianity-and-christians-in-pakistan?fbclid=IwAR199Vxbz9uz1AVWuO-P42M5KRzp3eUGw4qxNRjxA8-CLh6t0t_XRNC32ZY

PDF link to the Call for Papers: https://bit.ly/2024ChristianityandChristiansinPakistan

A major conference titled 'Christianity and Christians in Pakistan' is happening at the University of Oxford. Scholars working in history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, literature, law, IR, and other fields are all welcome! Please apply if interested.

Outcome:
A major outcome of this conference will be a special issue of a leading journal based on selected papers

Process:
To participate in the conference, please send a 200-word abstract with a copy of your CV to [email protected] by midnight GMT on April 1, 2023. Replies will be sent by April 5, 2023.

Website link for call for papers: https://ohh.web.ox.ac.uk/.../call-for-papers...

Here is the PDF link to the call for papers: https://bit.ly/41Ifgpd

Join us in a conversation today Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at 6:00 pm Pak Time. As a part of our guest lecture series, Imran Ali Sultan, COO, Urban Unit, Government of Punjab, Pakistan will discuss “Solid Waste Management: Cases from Karachi and Lahore”

Diving deep into this approach, he proposes to pick only one sector and go much deeper to analyze the various aspects of laws, policies, and implementation. He will be picking the sector of Solid Waste Management and sharing two case studies from Karachi and Lahore.

We will learn how local government laws and public policies shaped two totally different approaches these cities/provinces took. What have been the initial hiccups in the evolution of the waste sector in the two provinces (Punjab and Sindh), especially their major cities? What policies succeeded and which ones failed to bring results. What is the way forward?

Join us tomorrow, Monday at 5:30 pm for an interesting session on loopholes in the policy process with Dr. Asim Ijaz Khwaja.

Speaker's Bio:
Dr. Asim Ijaz Khwaja, a Pakistani-American economist, is the Director of the Center for International Development and the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development at Harvard University and co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. Dr. Khwaja’s research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions motivated by and engaging with policy. He has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Dr. Khwaja has received coverage in numerous media outlets such as The Economist, NY Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN.

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Join us on Monday at 2pm PKT for this insightful talk on by Professor Mathew McCartney.

Abstract

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has dominated economic debate in Pakistan for much of the last decade. For many CPEC is symbolic of a transition in Pakistan from a US-dominated polity to one that is being absorbed by a rising China. In this view Pakistan is at the forefront of a profound historic change, the end of five-hundred years in which the global economy and political order has been dominated by Western Europe and its off-shoots and the return of China to global economic centre-stage. The likely economic impact of CPEC has attracted dramatic conclusions reflective of this big picture. Some see CPEC (and China) as saviour, rescuing a failed state and shattered economy. Others see CPEC as part of a malicious Chinese-orchestrated plot revolving around debt-trap diplomacy and an effort to foist a China Model onto vulnerable client countries. This paper puts Pakistan instead at the centre of its analysis. Both of these dramatic conclusions are mistaken. Pakistan does not have a shattered economy and does not need rescuing by CPEC. In fact Pakistan is a forgotten Asian economic success. Pakistan is not beholden to a Chinese plot. Pakistan has demonstrated considerable agency in tailoring the CPEC to its own political and economic needs.

Biography

Professor Matthew McCartney spent twenty years as an academic at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London (2000-2011), and at the University of Oxford (2011-21). He has been a visiting Professor at Universities in China, Pakistan, India, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Belgium. He is a development economist by background with a teaching and research specialization in the economic development of India and Pakistan after 1947. He has published, supervised, and taught on economic issues relating to industrialization, technology, trade, the role of the state, investment and economic growth, and human development issues relating to nutrition, employment, education, poverty, and inequality. He has also worked for the World Bank, USAID, EU, and UNDP in Botswana, Georgia, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, and Zambia. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from SOAS, University of London. He has published eight books and his latest book is the outcome of two years of research-based in China and Pakistan ‘The Dragon from the Mountains: The CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar’ and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He is currently a senior researcher at the Charter Cities Institute, Washington D.C.

Join us in another insightful conversation with a distinguished historian on Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 5:30 pm. As a part of our lecture series, 'Rethinking the modern world', David Priestland will discuss "Is Neo-Liberalism over"?

David Priestland is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the history of global communism and of the Soviet Union, and more recently on the history of market liberalization since the 1980s. His books include The Red Flag: A History of Communism (2009), which was published in seven translated editions and was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today prize for the best history book of the year; Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization (2007). His most recent book is Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power (2012). He is currently working on the history of neoliberalism, especially in the post-socialist world.

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Please join us for an insightful conversation with the distinguished historian, Professor Ayesha Jalal as a part of our lecture series on June 8, 2022 at 12 PM.

Bio:
Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. After majoring in history and political science at Wellesley College, she obtained her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980-1984); Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984-1987); Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. (1985-1986); and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1988-1990). From 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur Fellow.

Her publications include "The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan," "The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence," "Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia," and "Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: a Comparative and Historical Perspective." Jalal has co-authored "Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy" with Sugata Bose. Her study of Muslim identity in the subcontinent, entitled "Self and Sovereignty: the Muslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South Asia since c.1850." Her most recent book is "The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics."

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