Workshop Programme
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Opening remarks - Bismellah Alizada (SOAS University of London)
Keynote address - Dr. Timor Sharan (LSE)
9:30 - 11:00 Panel 1 - Unpacking Interventionism and State-Building
Chair: Moheb Mudessir (University of Sussex)
Diane Tippett (University of Sydney) - Knowledge production, fieldwork practice and ethical research on Afghanistan post-August 2021
Omar Sadr (University of Pittsburgh) - How Liberalism Failed in Afghanistan
Mirwais Parsa (South Asian University) - Institutional roots of the failure of liberal interventions in Afghanistan
Sarajuddin Isar (SOAS University of London) - Unpacking the collapse of the Republic in Afghanistan: What brought us here?
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 2:00 Panel 2 - Indigenous Institutions
Chair: Barry Sadid (SOAS University of London)
Annika Schmeding (Harvard University) - Shattered Paradigms of Civility: Islam, Sufism and what counts as Civil Society in Afghanistan
Zeynep Tuba Sungur (SOAS) - Education and State-Building in Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: An Ill-Fated Relationship
Yahia Baiza (Institute of Ismaili Studies) - Girls’ Secondary Education And Education Crises in Afghanistan: Challenges and Way Out
Marya Hannun (University of Exeter) - Beyond a ‘Lightning Rod’: Complicating Histories of Afghan Women’s Schooling
Munazza Ebtikar (University of Oxford) & Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford University) - Aural (Re)Awakenings in Modern Afghanistan: The Music and Poetry of Resistance
2:00 - 2:45 Lunch
Announcement about Afghan Library and Peace Centre by Assiya Amini
2:45 - 4:15 Panel 3 - Identity and Society
Chair: Anis Rezai (University of Oxford)
Rahman Mohammadi (University of Oxford) - Othering as Genocide, Genocide as Othering: Hazaras in the Late Nineteenth Century
Barry Sadid (SOAS University of London) - The life and times of Sarwar Joya, 20th century Afghan radical
Anchita Borthakur & Angana Kotokey (Jawaharlal Nehru University) - The Plight of the Sikh Community in Afghanistan
Neha Lund (Brown University) - In the Shadows of Asamai: Afghan Hindu Navigations of Belonging and Unbelonging From Kabul to the Diaspora
4:15 -4:30 Coffee break
4:30 - 6:00 Panel 4 - Migration, Dislocation and Resettlement
Chair: Parwana Haydar (SOAS University of London)
Louise Ryan, Maria Lopez and Alessia Dalceggio (London Metropolitan University) - Encountering the hostile environment: recently arrived Afghan migrants In London
Ceri Oeppen (University of Sussex) - Protection-seeking without asylum-seeking: reflections on the limits to complementary pathways to protection for Afghans
Hameed Hakimi (University of Cambridge) - Security from the bottom-up: Afghans’ lived experiences in the Netherlands
Nina Khamsy (Geneva Graduate Institute) - Connections and disconnections in August 2021 in Afghanistan: the role of technologies from below
6:00 - 6:15 Closing remarks - Florence Shahabi & Rabia Khan (SOAS University of London)