Message from the Chair
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Dear Colleagues, Students and Friends, The fifth issue of Guftugu us here. We have come a long way since the first issue of Guftugu came out more than two years back. Our conversations within and outside this newsletter have grown across disciplines, schools, and even the University. Today, bui...
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Alumni from the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS continue to make their alma mater proud. Khadija Zaidi, BA English ’18, is currently working as an Editorial Assistant for renowned Policy Analyst and senior journalist, Raza Ahmad Rumi. She will also be a p...
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LUMS faculty members from the Departments of Economics and Electrical Engineering recently participated in a Workshop, “Promoting Green Growth and Technology in Food-Water and Energy Nexus for OIC Countries – Challenges and Opportunities” held at the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Agri...
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Anjum Alvi (Associate Professor, HSS) publishes an article “Levinas and Ethics: The Death of Pope John Paul II” in Anthropological Theory (SAGE, 2019). For details: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1463499618785529
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Noaman G. Ali (Assistant Professor, HSS) publishes article titled “Agrarian class struggle and state formation in post‐colonial Pakistan, 1959–1974: Contingencies of Mazdoor Kisan Raj” in the Journal of Agrarian Change (Wiley, 2019). For details: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joa...
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Dr. Ali Raza and Dr. Ali Usman Qasmi, Associate Professors at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, have curated a first of its kind Digital Archive at LUMS. A collaboration with the Technology and Peace Initiative (TPI), the Archive is a research repository that aims a...
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Dr. Tania Saeed, Assistant Professor at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) at LUMS, has recently published a book titled ‘Youth and the National Narrative. Education, Terrorism and the Security State in Pakistan’. The book is a unique window into how Pakistan...
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The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) organised its Dean’s Honour List ceremony on October 18, 2019. The event, held annually, recognises the outstanding academic achievements of students for the academic year 2018-19. Faculty members from the School also attend...
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My classes have sustained my love for learning through the past four years at LUMS. As an Anthropology/Sociology major with a minor in Literature, I was trained how to profusely write and critically read. But most of all, I was also taught to question that what was uncritically bestowed on us, all o...
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Rasul Bakhsh Rais (Professor, HSS) publishes article titled “Geopolitics on the Pakistan –Afghanistan Borderland: An Overview of Different Historical Phases” in Geopolitics (Vol. 24, Issue 2, Routledge 2019). For details: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2017.1359546