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Lunch Hour Seminars and Public Lectures
The Lunch Hour Seminars and Public Lectures held at the Institute cover a wide range of topics and provide a forum for scholars to share their research work and interests with faculty, students and friends of the Institute. Presenters come from a diverse range of universities and research institutes both from the UK and abroad.
2007/2008 Academic Year
Dealing with difference – religion, education and the challenges of democracy in Pakistan
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Matthew Nelson, SOAS, UK
4 June 2008
Lost and Found in Translation: Intercultural Encounter in the Chinese Arabian Nights
Wen-chin Ouyang, Pakistan
7 May 2008
The Process of Socio-Economic Development in Pakistan
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Arif Hasan, Pakistan
22 April 2008
Public and Private in Medieval Islamic Criminal Law
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Christian Lange, School of Divinity, Edinburgh University, UK
16 April 2008
Former World Bank Economist Ishrat Husain speaks at AKU-ISMC
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Ishrat Husain, Chairman of the National Commission for Government Reforms, Pakistan
5 March 2008
Pilgrimages in South Asia through interdisciplinary approach: Sehwan Sharif as a case study
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Michel Boivin, Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Advanced Studies of Social Sciences, University of Paris, France
9 January 2008
The Ismaili contribution to the Islamic rejection of slavery
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William Gervase Clarence-Smith, SOAS, University of London, UK
14 November 2007
The strange origins of representative democracy
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John Keane, University of Westminster, UK
7 November 2007
Anti-Semitism in medieval England: some problems and questions regarding histories of religious conflict
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Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
31 October 2007
A social constructionist approach to the study of Sharia
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Dr Khalid Mas'ud, Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan
9 October 2007
2006/2007 Academic Year
Is the secular state fair to Muslims?
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Cécile Laborde, University College London
20 June 2007
Understanding Disadvantage
Jonathan Wolff, University College London
9 May 2007
Spinoza on Democracy and the Good Life
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Sue James, Birkbeck College, University of London
25 April 2007
The Neoliberal Urban Development Paradigm and Civil Society responses in Pakistan
Arif Hasan, Pakistan
10 January 2007
Sciences in Islamic Societies until 1800
Sonja Brentjes, former faculty member AKU-ISMC
5 December 2006
Small is unique – a review of Malta’s culture
Michael Refalo, High Commissioner of Malta, UK
22 November 2006
Historiography or Mythology: Reflection on the Bible
Francoise Smyth-Florentin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
15 November 2006
Pre-Islamic Literary Sources?
Yusuf al-Abdallah, University of San’a, Yemen
10 October 2006
2005/2006 Academic Year
Dr Evelyn Fox-Keller on Epistemological Culture
Dr Evelyn Fox-Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
17 January 2006
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