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Talks

We organize discussions and lectures that run regularly throughout the academic year. These talks are open to all. The timings and venues are regularly communicated through our website and social media platforms.

  • SWGI
    Putting Prostitution in its Place: Gender, Space, and Power in Late-Colonial India
    Date: November 29, 2025
    Speaker(s): Dr. Zoya Sameen
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  • SWGI
    Post at Your Peril: Identity, Politics, and Backlash on Social Media
    Date: October 21, 2025
    Speaker(s): Sabah Bano Malik, Shahzadi Rai, Shehzad Ghias
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  • SWGI
    Shifting Terrain: Unpacking Potential and Pitfalls of New Pro-Women Legislation in 2025
    Date: September 23, 2025
    Speaker(s): Angbeen Atif Mirza, Asiya Yasin , Nida Usman Chaudhary
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    From Body to Territory: A Workshop on Solidarity in Women’s Fiction in Nigeria, Chile, and Pakistan
    Date: April 22, 2025
    Speaker(s): Yeisil Peña Contreras
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    Gender Violence, Law, and Consent in New Bollywood Courtroom Dramas
    Date: April 08, 2025
    Speaker(s): Dr. Amalie Goul Dueholm
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  • SWGI
    The Maze of Repression and Possibilities: Feminist Politics in Pakistan
    Date: February 18, 2025
    Speaker(s): Aimen Bucha
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  • SWGI
    Voices of Resistance: Pashtun Women Mobilizing for Change
    Date: January 28, 2025
    Speaker(s): Ismat Shahjehan, Jamaima Afridi & Moniza Kakar
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  • SWGI
    Creating Safety for Survivors of Domestic Violence
    Date: November 12, 2024
    Speaker(s): Zohra Ahmed
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  • SWGI
    Vulnerability, Resilience, and Unequal Impacts: The Gendered Experience of Climate Change and Health in Pakistan
    Date: October 15, 2024
    Speaker(s): Neha Mankani
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  • SWGI
    Women's Labour Force Participation in South Asia
    Date: October 10, 2024
    Speaker(s): Margaret Triyana
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  • SWGI
    Innovating Health: Sehat Kahani & the Era of Global Digital Healthcare
    Date: September 24, 2024
    Speaker(s): Dr. Sara Saeed
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  • SWGI
    How dance is important for the feminist movement?
    Date: September 12, 2024
    Speaker(s): Sheema Kirmani
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  • SWGI
    Archives of Dissent: Caste, Sexuality, Protest
    Date: April 30, 2024
    Speaker(s): Dr. Anjali Arondekar
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  • SWGI
    Representation: A Study of Gender Quotas in the National Assembly of Pakistan
    Date: April 24, 2024
    Speaker(s): Dr. Ameena Zia
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  • SWGI
    From Women's Action Forum to Aurat March: The Personal and The Political
    Date: March 12, 2024
    Speaker(s): Nighat Said Khan
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  • SWGI
    Navigating Online Harms and Gendered Disinformation in Pakistan
    Date: February 27, 2024
    Speaker(s): Seerat Khan and Danish Umar
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  • SWGI
    Slaying the Hydra: Tackling Honour Killings in Pakistan
    Date: February 13, 2024
    Speaker(s): Hiba Akbar
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  • SWGI
    Productive vs Reproductive Work: Rethinking the Relationship
    Date: January 30, 2024
    Speaker(s): Dr. Hadia Majid
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  • SWGI
    Spousal Cooperation and Marriage Norms
    Date: November 21, 2023
    Speaker(s): Dr. Uzma Afzal
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  • SWGI
    Desi Futurisms: New and Old Directions in Identity, Indigeneity, and Feminism
    Date: November 14, 2023
    Speaker(s): Maria Amir
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  • SWGI
    Climate Injustice and Land Grab: A Look at Gendered Impacts of Oppression
    Date: October 16, 2023
    Speaker(s): Abira Ashfaq
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  • SWGI
    Navigating through Double Discriminations at Workplaces: Experiences of Minority Women in Pakistan.
    Date: October 03, 2023
    Speaker(s): Dr. Ayra Indrias Patras
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  • SWGI
    Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Book Talk)
    Date: September 21, 2023
    Speaker(s): Dr. Shenila-Khoja Moolji
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  • SWGI
    Collecting Earth
    Date: September 20, 2023
    Speaker(s): Sobia Zaidi
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  • SWGI
    Designing Technologies for Economic and Social Empowerment
    Date: March 21, 2023
    Speaker(s): Dr. Hadia Majid, Dr. Maryam Mustafa
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  • SWGI
    Dagh Dagh Ujala (A Stained Dawn) – Film Screening & Discussion
    Date: February 07, 2023
    Speaker(s): Anam Abbas
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  • SWGI
    Violence and Power in Academic Work
    Date: December 06, 2022
    Speaker(s): Dr. Marcela Mandiola
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  • SWGI
    Do Inheritance Reforms Increase Women’s Access and Control over Land? Evidence from Punjab (Pakistan)
    Date: November 29, 2022
    Speaker(s): Dr. Hana Zahir
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  • SWGI
    Civic Engagement and Enterprise Development through Women Community Organizations: A Case Study of TRDP Socio-economic Development Program
    Date: November 15, 2022
    Speaker(s): Dr. Allah Nawaz
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  • SWGI
    Contextualising Digital Colonialism
    Date: November 01, 2022
    Speaker(s): Zoya Rehman
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  • SWGI
    Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan
    Date: October 18, 2022
    Speaker(s): Dr. Farah Said
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  • SWGI
    The Transgender Truth: Dispelling Myths, Centering Empathy
    Date: October 07, 2022
    Speaker(s): Sophia-Layla Afsar, Arzu Khan, Dr. Sarah Suhail and Mehlab Jamil
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  • SWGI
    Beyond Bondage: Hari Women’s Communities of Struggle
    Date: October 04, 2022
    Speaker(s): Dr. Sarah Suhail
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  • SWGI
    Visible Outside, Invisible Inside: The Power of Patriarchy on Female Protest Leaders in Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings
    Date: September 27, 2022
    Speaker(s): Jalila Haider
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  • SWGI
    Negotiating Adulthood: Women’s Education, Work and Family Formation in Rural Pakistan
    Date: May 19, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    How Women and Men Search for Partners: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements
    Date: May 12, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Energy and Space Use
    Date: April 25, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    The Net of Kinship: Mothers, Daughters, and the Webs Caste Weaves in Pakistan
    Date: April 14, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Promoting Gender Justice on Global Garment Supply Chains
    Date: March 31, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Censorship, Progressive Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India and Pakistan
    Date: March 14, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Care in Feminist Spaces: Myths and Monoliths
    Date: March 03, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Gendering Technology
    Date: February 14, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Intersections of Hostility at the Workplace
    Date: February 03, 2022
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Salt and Sponge: Eugenics, Women's Welfare, and the Genesis of Family Planning Programs in Pakistan
    Date: December 14, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties
    Date: December 03, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Forging Gendered Subjects: The Cultural Politics of Education in Pakistan
    Date: November 19, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Gender and the Politics of Data Work in Frontline Health
    Date: November 05, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Conditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Health: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
    Date: October 15, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Informal Work across South Asia
    Date: October 05, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Patriarchal Violence and the Policy Landscape
    Date: September 23, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Income Inequality under Covid-19
    Date: September 20, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Exploring Feminism and Fun through Film
    Date: April 20, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    SWGI – MHRC – Kashf Conference: Gender, Inequality and Microfinance
    Date: March 30, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Pakistan’s Health Sector: Gaps and Innovations
    Date: March 02, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • Seminar
    Intersection of Caste, Gender, Religion and Work: A Case of Christian Female Sweepers in Lahore
    Date: February 02, 2021
    Speaker(s): Dr. Ayra Indrias Patras
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  • SWGI
    Abolishing Archaic Processes: Rape Investigations in Pakistan
    Date: January 28, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    The Economic Role of Women in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and Hurdles
    Date: January 20, 2021
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Writing & its Discontent: Sabyn Javeri on Hijabistan
    Date: November 10, 2020
    Speaker(s): Dr. Sabyn Javeri
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  • SWGI
    Women in Public Service in Pakistan
    Date: October 26, 2020
    Speaker(s): Dr. Sana Haroon
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  • SWGI
    Indian Sex Life - Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
    Date: October 13, 2020
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Gendered Design of Technologies
    Date: September 28, 2020
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Mobilising Women Voters: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
    Date: February 04, 2020
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Anatomy of a Rumour
    Date: November 15, 2019
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Undervaluing Women's Voice in Pakistan and the UK
    Date: November 05, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Rashid Memon
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  • SWGI
    Pakistani Women in Medicine: Myths and Realities
    Date: October 15, 2019
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Engendering Piety and the Making of an Islamic Home in an Islamic Revival Movement in Pakistan
    Date: October 08, 2019
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Feminist Journeys in Academia: Theorising State Power, Development and Social Justice in Pakistan's Northern Frontier
    Date: September 24, 2019
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Can Feminism Be Fun? Gender, Space and Mobility in Lyari, Karachi
    Date: April 23, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Nida Kirmani
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  • SWGI
    Performing Religious Authority as a Woman: Resources, Constraints, and Cultural Entrepreneurship 
    Date: April 08, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Faiza Mushtaq
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  • SWGI
    Negotiating Multiple Identities: Pakistani Women and Media Representations
    Date: March 26, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Shirin Zubair 
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  • SWGI
    No Wealth for Women: Natural Resources and Gender Inequality in Africa
    Date: March 12, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Laine Munir 
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  • SWGI
    Institutional Reform and De Facto Women’s Rights: Evidence from Marriage Registrars in Punjab, Pakistan 
    Date: February 26, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Kate Vyborny
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  • SWGI
    Book Talk: Women, Healthcare and Violence 
    Date: February 19, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Sara Rizvi
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  • SWGI
    Postcolonial Echoes of Hir: The Feminist Poetics and the Vernacular Imagination 
    Date: February 12, 2019
    Speaker(s): Sara Kazmi
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  • SWGI
    You Need to Know a Little Yes/No’: Crossing Gender and Linguistic Boundaries in Pakistani Cinema 
    Date: January 29, 2019
    Speaker(s): Dr. Gwendolyn Sarah Kirk
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  • SWGI
    Book Talk: The Women's Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy
    Date: December 04, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Ayesha Khan
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  • SWGI
    Climbing Out of Poverty: An assessment of the impact of BISP on women's outcomes
    Date: November 06, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Hadia Majid
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  • SWGI
    Feminist Exegesis and Muslim Women's Agency
    Date: October 30, 2018
    Speaker(s):
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  • SWGI
    Scherezade in the West: Representations of Muslim Women in Leila Aboulela's Work
    Date: October 16, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar
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  • SWGI
    Arts-Informed Cooperative Inquiry: Possibilities and Potential for Decolonising Methodology
    Date: September 11, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Shama Dossa
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  • LUMS
    Feminist Voices in Pakistani Urdu Literature: Sara Shagufta, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwer Naheed
    Date: March 14, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Humaira Ishfaq
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  • SWGI
    Gendered Infrastructures: Women and Urban Politics in Lahore
    Date: February 28, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Amen Jaffer
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  • SWGI
    Neither. Nor. Trans*: Dispensable Masculinities and the Uneasy Promise of Trans* in Pakistan
    Date: February 13, 2018
    Speaker(s): Dr. Omar Kasmani
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  • SWGI
    Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives
    Date: November 29, 2017
    Speaker(s): Dr. Tehmina Pirzada
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  • SWGI
    Attachment, Articulation and Agency: Women Digest Writers in Pakistan
    Date: November 15, 2017
    Speaker(s): Dr. Kiran Ahmed
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  • SWGI
    Mushk: Meet and Greet with Sania Saeed and Nimra Bucha
    Date: September 26, 2017
    Speaker(s): Sania Saeed & Nimra Bucha
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  • SWGI
    Islamophobia and Securitization: Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice
    Date: March 27, 2017
    Speaker(s): Dr. Tania Saeed
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  • SWGI
    Being Good Women: Embodiment and Virtue in Religious and Secular Imaginaries
    Date: March 10, 2017
    Speaker(s): Summer Qasim
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  • SWGI
    Of Mothers and Widows: Militarism's Intractable Subjects
    Date: February 24, 2017
    Speaker(s): Dr. Maria Rashid
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  • SWGI
    Nation, Memory, Humanity in South Asia
    Date: December 02, 2016
    Speaker(s): Dr. Yasmin Saikia
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  • SWGI
    Honour Unmasked
    Date: November 14, 2016
    Speaker(s): Dr. Nafisa Shah
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  • SWGI
    The Strut of Peacocks: The Gendered Politics of Nationalism at the Wagah Border
    Date: October 17, 2016
    Speaker(s): Dr. Naveen Minai
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  • SWGI
    Security or Surveillance? Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Internet
    Date: February 26, 2016
    Speaker(s): Farieha Aziz, Nighat Dad, and Nabiha Meher Shaikh
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