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LUMS Live: Helping the Community Stay Connected and Informed

March 29, 2020

LUMS Live: Helping the Community Stay Connected and Informed

A majority of the world is confined to their homes as a result of the rapid spread of the Coronavirus. Classes at LUMS have also been moved online with majority of the staff and faculty working from home. However, just as LUMS has not let the current situation stop the students learning, it has also found a new way of keeping important conversations going.

LUMS Live, launched on March 29, 2020, is a platform that gives you the opportunity to tune in and connect with Dr. Arshad Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, LUMS and other eminent panelists as they discuss important topics. Discussions during these live sessions, hosted on the LUMS official Facebook page and moderated by Adeel Hashmi, cover topics from how to maintain good health, how to continue learning in the current environment and the changing role of technology to how to stay positive and the importance of being generous and empathetic to the people around us.

Explore our past sessions, and be sure to join us for the next session and become part of critical conversations during these unprecedented times.

LUMS Live Session 114: How Women and Men Search for Partners: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements

In this discussion, Dr. Fatima Aqeel highlights how women and men search for marriage partners in a developing country marriage market. Using a unique data set of marriage advertisements spanning two decades, she finds distinct spousal search patterns based on the characteristics of the ad-poster.

Hosted in collaboration with the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI), the session was moderated by Dr. Ghazal Asif and Dr. Ayesha Masood.

LUMS Live Session 113: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Energy and Space-Use

This discussion explores some of the impacts of current spatial configurations and household technologies on women’s domestic energy and space-use. It challenges current gender-neutral/binary approaches in housing and energy and calls for further socio-technical investigations at the intersections of gender, energy and space-use for improved equity and sustainability.

Drawing on interviews with middleclass homeowners in Lahore and Amman, Dr. Rihab Khalid unpacks some of the critical factors that result in women’s differential agencies, spatial affordances, and contingent flexibilities in managing domestic energy demand.

Hosted in collaboration with the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI), the session was moderated by Dr. Hadia Majid.

LUMS Live Session 112: Against All Odds: Social and Political Action for Empowerment and Accountability

How and under what conditions does citizen-led social and political action contribute to empowerment and accountability? What are the strategies used, and with what outcomes, especially in settings which are democratically weak, politically fragile and affected by legacies of violence and conflict?

Drawing on research from the Action for Empowerment and Accountability research programme conducted between 2016 and 2021, this webinar discusses these themes in relationship in particular to a series of studies conducted by the programme with partners in Pakistan, including work on how marginalised groups interact with authorities, women’s protests and political participation, and mobilisation on energy issues.

Hosted in collaboration with the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) as part of the Political Economy of Development Series, the session was moderated by Dr. John Gaventa.

LUMS Live Session 111: Housing Futures in the City of Islamabad

LUMS Live Session 111: Housing Futures in the City of Islamabad

There is general consensus that there is a dire need for improved and affordable housing options in the city of Islamabad. This session focuses on growing housing challenges, as well as policies and plans that are being developed to adequately meet housing needs, particularly in light of recent master planning revision exercises and the government’s attempts to support the construction of new units as per the Naya Pakistan Housing program.

Panelists share their understanding of existing challenges, the adequacy of current policies, and proposals for inclusive growth going forward, especially for katchi abadi residents and low-income households in the city. Panelists also speak about long-term sustainability of current forms of urban development practices more broadly, and reflect on the means and mechanisms through which the government can protect and enhance access to dignified, adequate shelter.

Hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS), UKRI-GCRF (Re)Thinking the Off-Grid City, and the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) as part of the I A Rahman Social Justice and Change Webinar Series, the session was moderated by Ms. Fizzah Sajjad.

LUMS Live Session 110: The Net of Kinship: Mothers, Daughters, and the Webs of Caste in Pakistan

Dr. Ghazal Asif Farrukhi argues that the hard labour of sustaining the nets of kinship within which one is caught can often lead to exhaustion, even in the most intimate of embodied relations. This discussion will explore how the tensions and intimacies of a mother-daughter relationship may, in the context of deep-seated casteist and religious prejudice, help reveal the logics, practices, and compromises through which women mediate family, profession, and personal ambition.

Hosted in collaboration with the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI), the session was moderated by Dr. Amen Jaffer.

LUMS Live Session 109: Cultural Preservation in Pakistan

Pakistan is endowed with a large number of ancient sites and historical structures, which provide Pakistanis with a distinct cultural identity. Over recent history, cumulative efforts of the Government, NGOs and others have been targeted to preserve this heritage. This panel discussion focuses on current efforts of the preservation of visual culture through restorations and the use of modern technology in different parts of Pakistan.

Hosted in collaboration with the Technology for People Initiative (TPI), the session was moderated by Ms. Fatima Bilquis.

LUMS Live Session 108: Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy

Dr. Esther Duflo received the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. She is one of the pioneers of the use of randomised controlled trials to study the effects of development policies.

Hosted in collaboration with the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) as part of their Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture Series, this session was moderated by Dr. Ali Cheema and Dr. Farah Said.

LUMS Live Session 107: Promoting Gender Justice on Global Garment Supply Chains

COVID-19 has intervened in unanticipated ways across all sectors, with devastating impacts for the women workers who dominate the Asian garment industry. Across Asia—which accounts for 60% of the 40 million garment workers worldwide—women workers have been left in desperate circumstances requiring immediate and long-term responses. Women garment workers—including those who have returned to work and those who are unable to do so—face a spectrum of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH), including forms of violence that inflict physical, mental, sexual, and economic harm. Governments and brands have failed to avert and relieve this urgent humanitarian crisis and specifically have failed to include a gender lens even in limited response.

This panel provides a detailed overview of GBVH in garment supply chains, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also lays out critical actions needed from global fashion brands and governments going forward to mitigate the human rights impact in the short term and to transform supply chains going forward.

Hosted in collaboration with the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI), the session was moderated by Ms. Nandita Shivakumar.

LUMS Live Session 106: The Rise of Populism in South Asia

India has long held an exceptional status as the most consolidated democracy in the developing world. However, this status is now seen as at risk by the government of Narendra Modi. His governing projects are associated with intolerance toward minorities and dissenters and exhibit centralizing authoritarian tendencies. To understand the rise of right populism in India, Professor Chhibber reflects on an earlier period of the 1960s and early 1970s when Indira Gandhi launched a populist campaign of the left against the entrenched power structures of the Congress party in India. The panelists explore the relationship between the left populists in the 1970s and the right populists in the 2010s whether there are differences in the authoritarian practices of left and right populists.

Hosted in collaboration with the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) as part of their Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture Series, the session was moderated by Dr. Shandana Khan Mohmand and Dr. Hassan Javid.

LUMS Live Session 105: Is Teaching a Profession in Pakistan?

Across Pakistan, there are 500+ education programmes, with a significant proportion of them dedicated to the preparation of school teachers. However, since 2012 onwards, most sub-national governments in Pakistan have chosen to opt out of mandating a professional teaching background/certification for recruitment into public school teaching. Private schools in the country already do not require pre-service certification. All this while, Pakistan continues to perform poorly on fundamental literacy and numeracy tests.

So why do education systems that do perform well focus so much on pre-service teacher education as a key component of education policy and practice? Is there merit to professional teacher preparation that our system might be overlooking? And what does Pakistan’s contrasting position tell us about how professionally teaching is approached in our schools? This third session of our month-long teacher dialogue series focuses on some of these fundamental questions as we reflect on historical and current lessons from teacher preparation policies around the world and their lessons for Pakistan.

Hosted in collaboration with the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education and the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC), the session was moderated by Dr. Soufia Siddiqi.

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LUMS Live: Helping the Community Stay Connected and Informed

March 29, 2020

LUMS Live: Helping the Community Stay Connected and Informed

LUMS Live Session 114: How Women and Men Search for Partners: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements

LUMS Live Session 113: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Energy and Space-Use

LUMS Live Session 112: Against All Odds: Social and Political Action for Empowerment and Accountability

LUMS Live Session 111: Housing Futures in the City of Islamabad

LUMS Live Session 110: The Net of Kinship: Mothers, Daughters, and the Webs of Caste in Pakistan

LUMS Live Session 109: Cultural Preservation in Pakistan

LUMS Live Session 108: Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy

LUMS Live Session 107: Promoting Gender Justice on Global Garment Supply Chains

LUMS Live Session 106: The Rise of Populism in South Asia

LUMS Live Session 105: Is Teaching a Profession in Pakistan?

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LUMS Live: Helping the Community Stay Connected and Informed

March 29, 2020

LUMS Live: Helping the Community Stay Connected and Informed

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LUMS Live Session 114: How Women and Men Search for Partners: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements

LUMS Live Session 113: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Energy and Space-Use

LUMS Live Session 112: Against All Odds: Social and Political Action for Empowerment and Accountability

LUMS Live Session 111: Housing Futures in the City of Islamabad

LUMS Live Session 110: The Net of Kinship: Mothers, Daughters, and the Webs of Caste in Pakistan

LUMS Live Session 109: Cultural Preservation in Pakistan

LUMS Live Session 108: Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy

LUMS Live Session 107: Promoting Gender Justice on Global Garment Supply Chains

LUMS Live Session 106: The Rise of Populism in South Asia

LUMS Live Session 105: Is Teaching a Profession in Pakistan?

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