9:00 - 10:30 am: Border Crossings
Moderator: Parna Sengupta, Introduction to Humanities Program, Stanford University
Amin Tarzi, Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University, “Yaghistan Revisited: The Struggle for Domination of Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands”
James Caron, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, “Divisive Hegemonies and Interlinked Publics: Case Studies of Religious Scholarship and Social Awareness in Afghanistan and the North West Frontier Province, 1930-2008”
Jamal Elias, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, “Identity, Modernity and Meaning in Pukhtun Truck Decoration”
11 am- 12:30 pm: Molding Minds and Bodies
Moderator: Steve Stedman, Center for Security and International Cooperation, Stanford University
Tahir Andrabi, Economics, Pomona College, “Religious Schooling in Pakistan and its Relation to Other Schooling Options: A Disaggregated Analysis”
Farzana Shaikh, Asia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, “Will the 'right' kind of Islam save Pakistan?: The Sufi Antidote”
Fariba Nawa, Journalist, Fremont, “Opium Nation”
2:00- 4:00 pm: Nations, Tribes, and Others
Moderator: Aishwary Kumar, Department of History, Stanford University
Gilles Dorronsoro, The Carnegie Endowment, “Religious, Political and Tribal Networks in the Afghan War”
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Department of History, James Madison University, “Epistemological Quandaries of the Afghan Nation: Mobility, Territoriality and The Other”
Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network, “How Tribal Are the Taleban?”
Lutz Rzehak, Humboldt University, "Diversity and dynamics of ethnic identities in Afghanistan: the case of the Baloch"
4:30-6:00 pm: Public Session: The Global Politics of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Moderators:
Shahzad Bashir, Religious Studies, Stanford University
Robert Crews, Department of History, Stanford University