Spotlight
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The LUMS family is replete with people wanting to change the country, as well as the entire region for the better. Such is an initiative taken by two universities in two different countries, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan along with O.P. Jindal Global University (OPJGU), I...
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Dr. Faisal Bari (Associate Professor, Economics, LUMS) and Dr. Adil Najam (former Vice Chancellor, LUMS) recently co-authored a ground-breaking report on Pakistan, titled Pakistan National Human Development Report: Unleashing the Potential of a Young Pakistan. The report was commissioned and publish...
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The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and LUMS jointly organized an annual conference in Washington, DC, on April 16–17. The conference brought together leading scholars and policy experts to explore the dynamics that are likely to shape Pakistan’s political stability, its econo...
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The final quarterly debate of the academic session 2017–2018 was held on March 26, 2018. The motion under discussion was: “THBT the judicial activism by the Supreme Court has done more harm than good to democracy”. The team on proposition comprised of Senator Musadik Malik, Mr. Waqqas Mir, Ms. Amina...
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The 3rd Annual Saida Waheed Gender Studies Colloquium was held at LUMS on the 20th and 21st of April, 2018. The colloquium—organized to encourage student research in the areas of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies—consisted of papers written by students from all over Pakistan. Participants inclu...
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Nida Kirmani (Associate Professor, HSS) publishes a chapter titled “Earning as Empowerment? The Relationship between Paid Work and Domestic Violence in Lyari, Karachi,” in Nazia Hussein (ed.) Rethinking New Womanhood: Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia (Palgrave, 2018)....
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LUMS and the University of Nottingham jointly organised three day conference titled "The Great Transformation? The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Culture, Economy, and Society in Pakistan" The conference attendees came from Canada, UK, China, Singapore, Denmark, Malaysia, and all o...
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The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative organized a two-day workshop bringing together local scholars of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and individuals leading women and gender studies centers to discuss the various intellectual challenges faced in this particular field. The workshop was facilit...
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The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) organized a program titled “A Journey into RAAG and TAAl”— an introduction to South Asian music through live flute, vocal performance, and discussions with Ayesha Nadir Ali (acclaimed classical singer) and Mohammad Han...
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Raul Baksh Rais (Professor, HSS) publishes book titled Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics: Constructing Pakistan’s National Identity (Oxford University Press, 2017). For details: https://oup.com.pk/new-arrivals/islam-ethnicity-and-power-politics.html