Colloquium 2016

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Abstracts

Publication of Abstracts

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Schedule

2016

Colloquium Schedule – April 9

8:30 – 9 AM

Registration

9 AM – 9:20 AM
Welcome and Introduction
(Saeed Saigol Auditorium)

9:30 – 11:00 AM

Session 1

Panel A: Gender in the City
(Auditorium 3)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Nida Kirmani, Assistant Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Insecure Masculinities: Drugs, Religion and Violence in a Basti in Lahore

Mehlab Jameel

Lahore University of Management Sciences

The Lahore Metro Bus: Theorizing Global Cities and Locating Gender

Mariam Sheherbano Khan

Beaconhouse National University

Life Cycle Experiences of Trans-Individuals in Lahore

Muhammad Faraz

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Panel B: Gender and Literary Representations
(Auditorium 4)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan, Assistant Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Being The Immigrant: The Transnational Female In South Asian Fiction

Seerat Fatima

Beaconhouse National University

Feminist Existentialism: A Case Study of Kamila Shamsi’s Burnt Shadows andBapsi Sidhwa’s The Bride

Saad ul Hassan and Muhammad Hassan Qadeer Butt

Government College Lahore

Expression of marginalized feminine sentimentality and sexuality in literary works  

Maham Jamal

Lahore University of Management Sciences

11:00 – 11:30 AM
Tea Break

11:30 – 1 PM

Session 2

Panel A: Gender and Legal Imaginations
(Auditorium 3)

Faculty Discussant: Sadaf Aziz, Assistant Professor, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Recovery and Restoration Act; the patriarchal creation of the Indian and Pakistani states

Syed Ali Mehdi Zaidi

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Ali Muhammad v Ali Muhammad: locating the law’s point of view

Sana Naeem

Lahore University of Management Sciences

The issue of inheritance for the transgender community in Pakistan

Ali Rafi

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Panel B: Locating Psychology in the Study of Gender
(Auditorium 4)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Kaveri Qureshi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Gender Differences in the Fear of Crime and Precautionary Behaviors

Taskeen Mansoor

Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi

Invisible scars are not a crime: Comparison of domestic violence laws in Pakistan

Naima Qamar

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Role of Parenting in Emotional Development of Adolescents

Fariha Aftab and Taskeen Mansoor

Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi

1-2 PM
Lunch Break

2 – 3:30 PM

Session 3

Panel A: Gender and the Sacred
(Auditorium 3)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Amen Jaffer, Assistant Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Bibi Pak Daman: A Feminized Spatial Study

ShahBano Ali Khan

Beaconhouse National University

The Shahadat of Karbala: Zainab Binte Ali, Gender and Witnessing

Syeda Mehr Mustafa

Beaconhouse National University

Ismaili Perceptions of Women’s Emancipation: Past and Present

Mustafa Kamal

Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (ISMC)

Multiculturalism and Feminism:

Madiha Nadeem

Lahore College for Women University

Panel B: Gender, Labor, and the Household
(Auditorium 4)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Ayaz Qureshi, Assistant Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Gender, Domestic Work, and Informal Credit

Hasan Shahid

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Analysis of the Collective Action of All Pakistan Lady Health Workers Welfare Association in Light of Competing Theoretical Frameworks

Maha Salman

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Conceptualizing Women’s Empowerment

Manal Shekhani and Mahnoor Bawaney

Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

3:30 – 4:00
Tea Break

4:00 – 5:30

Session 4

Panel A: Representing Gendered Worlds
(Auditorium 3)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan, Assistant Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Examining Public Response on Social Media to Sharmeen Obaid Chinnoy’s Documentary, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Sara Ayaz Butt

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Writing Selves: Urdu Women’s Digests in Twentieth-Century Pakistan

Noor Shahzad

Lahore University of Management Sciences

The actor, the dancer, the joker and the prostitute: The Creation and use of the Stage Show form in Pakistan

Shehzad Ghias

 

Panel B: Gender, Violence, and Policy
(Auditorium 4)

Faculty Discussant: Dr. Tania Saeed, Assistant Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Name

Institutional Affiliation

Project Dareecha: Creating Awareness About the Legal Rights of Working Women

Anusha Fatima, Fatin Nawaz, Hasan Naqvi

Habib University

Combating Violence against Women in Pakistan through Application of CEDAW

Maria Khan

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Justice Served? Has the Pakistani Response to Rape been sufficient

Faraz Ahmed Sheikh and Syed Waqar Alam

Lahore University of Management Sciences

5:30 – 6 PM
Tea Break

7:00- 8:30 PM
Film Screening

A Girl in the River
(Saeed Saigol Auditorium)

With Special Guest Saba Qaiser (featured in film)
Discussion led by Aimen Bucha, Hadi Hussain, Sonia Qadir, and Sarah Suhail