"liberal", "pakistan"? cognitive dissonance.
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Bernadette Marie White <bmwhite@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:24 AM
Subject: April 24 @Noon: Designing a Liberal Core for Post-Colonial Pakistan
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hs-events-announcements@lists.stanford.edu Designing a Liberal Core for Post-Colonial Pakistan
April 24, 2013, 12 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Core curricula are at the heart of liberal education, and hence of the identity of liberal institutions. They are, however, irreducibly linked to the question of discursive and institutional traditions of thought – paradigmatically the Western tradition – posing an acute problem for liberal core curricular design in the postcolonial context. The design of a core liberal curriculum is thus a fraught project of reimagining and recovery in a charged historical situation.
As Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan, designs its future liberal core, this lecture will present our efforts in turning our positionality into an opportunity for creating a more rigorously universalist liberal core curriculum.
Lunch will be served.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Nauman Naqvi
Dr. Nauman Naqvi is the Acting Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Habib University project in Karachi, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, although his thought and work are truly interdisciplinary, ranging across anthropology, history, literature and philosophy. His recent publications include "Acts of Askesis, Scenes of Poesis: The Dramatic Phenomenology of Another Violence in a Muslim Painter-Poet," in the current issue of Diacritics: A Review Journal of Criticism and Theory, and "Profession on the Cusp of Saturn's House: Weighing the Wager & Wages of the Time of a Postcolonial-Historical Pedagogy (or, Teaching History at the Limit of Time)," Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming)
Mr. Wasif Rizvi
As President of Habib University, Mr. Wasif Rizvi is leading the conceptualizing, designing and managing of Habib University. Before joining H.U.F., Rizvi served as General Manager at Aga Khan Education Services Pakistan, where he was in charge of conceptualizing, designing and implementing educational development programs in schools. He also helped found the Institute for Development Studies and Practices, Quetta and Shikshantar, an institute in India, set up to rethink foundations of education and development in South Asia. Mr. Rizvi holds a Master's degree in International Education from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His special interests include topics related to religion and indigenous philosophies and their influence in shaping social, political and economic processes in Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinent cultures.
About Habib University
Habib University is an upcoming Liberal Arts and Science university in Karachi, Pakistan, that will offer classes starting Fall 2014. The School will offer four undergraduate programs through two Schools. The School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will offer undergraduate degrees in Communication Studies and Design, and in Social Development and Policy. The School of Science and Engineering will offer undergraduate programs in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The School will offer a Liberal Core, that will be required for all undergraduate students to attend. For more information regarding Habib University, please visit
www.habib.edu.pk
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