Workshop Programme

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9.15     Welcome and registration

 

9.45     Opening remarks – Florence Shahabi (SOAS, University of London)

             Keynote address – Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University)

 

10.30   Panel 1 – Societal Dynamics: Past and Present

              Chair: Rabia Latif Khan (SOAS, University of London)

 

Eva Meharry (University of Cambridge) – Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology in Afghanistan

Nafay Choudhury (King’s College London) – Contract as Trust: Transactions in Kabul's Money Bazaars

Latifa Jafari (University of Strasbourg) – Impunity of Wrongdoers of International Crimes in Afghanistan, Challenges and Opportunities of Prosecution Before National Criminal Justice  

 

11.50   Coffee break  

 

12.10   Panel 2 -Transnationalism, Agency, and Identity

              Chair: Dr. Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)

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Sonia Ahsan (Columbia University) – States of Honour: Sexual Ethics and the Politics of Promiscuity

Azita Bathaie (IDEMEC) - Migration, gender and kinship within the Shiite population of Afghanistan

Lucile Martin (Ghent University) – Return Migration, Rights Perceptions and (Re)definitions of Identity in Afghanistan

 

1.30     Lunch – served in KLT

 

2.30     Panel 3 – Historical Perspectives on Nation and Culture

             Chair: Parwana Fayyaz (University of Cambridge)

 

Michael Lindsey (UC Santa Cruz) – The Afghan and Pashtun Baj of Tabla

Jawan Shir Rasikh (University of Pennsylvania) – Medieval Afghanistan: Muslim Conquests of Balad-e Ghur, 9-11 Centuries, CE

Mateusz Klagisz (Jagiellonian University) – Visual Propaganda in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

 

3.50     Chai break

 

4.10     Panel 4 – 18th to 20th Century Political Entities

             Chair: Dr. Avinash Paliwal (SOAS, University of London)

 

Sajjad Nejatie (University of Toronto) – Understanding Afghanistan through British Archival Sources

Francesca Fuoli (University of Bern) – The reluctant princely state: reconceptualising Afghanistan within the British Indian Empire, 1869 -1878

Kyara Klausman (Humboldt University of Berlin) – Conflicting Visions of Progress in Political Ideas of Students at Kabul University, 1964 -1992

 

5:30      Closing remarks – Rabia Latif Khan (SOAS, University of London)

               Closing address – Dr. Esra Kaytaz (Coventry University)