April 14, 2022
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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.
Recruitment Drive by Emblem Technologies
Recruitment Drive by Emblem Technologies
April 7, 2022
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Emblem Technologies is a multinational development firm with more than 200 tech products. From building casual, social, and mid-core games to developing social, educational and productivity-related applications; they have done it all and they are ready to do some more!
Date: April 7, 2022
Day: Thursday
Timings: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Venue: A-1, Academic Block
BS Computer Science, BSc Accounting and Finance and MS Computer Science students are encouraged to apply.
Bazaar Launchpad Recruitment Drive 2022
Bazaar Launchpad Recruitment Drive 2022
March 24, 2022
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Bazaar Technologies will be at LUMS for an in-person session to discuss Bazaar and their recruitment process for their Launchpad.
Bazaar Launchpad is a programme designed to create a new generation of entrepreneurs via accelerated growth. The selected fellows will get a chance to experience three stints of three months in different teams. Successful candidates will be given an extensive overview of Bazaar through the cross-functional rotations to provide for a diverse learning experience and an opportunity to boost their business acumen.
LUMS Live Session 104: The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
LUMS Live Session 104: The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
March 17, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This discussion will provide an overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have different consequences for LMICs, and demanded distinct policy responses, compared to rich countries.
Scaling Solutions - Keep Truckin Recruitment Drive 2022
Scaling Solutions - Keep Truckin Recruitment Drive 2022
March 16, 2022
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The recruitment drive will feature Numan Sheikh, LUMS alumnus and Manager RnD at Keep Truckin. He will present the work that the RnD team is doing, particularly in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Driver Safety. Driver and fleet safety bring huge challenges because human lives are at stake.
He will also elaborate on how the engineering team at KeepTruckin tackled the challenges of scaling up AI solutions with the huge amount of video and telematics data coming in every minute from over half a million devices.
LUMS Live Session 103: Censorship, Progressive Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India and Pakistan
LUMS Live Session 103: Censorship, Progressive Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India and Pakistan
March 14, 2022
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Censorship, Urdu literature, Islam, and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan have a complex, intertwined history. Dr. Waheed offers a timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. She delves into how these left-leaning intellectuals drew from long-standing literary traditions of Islam in a period of great duress and upheaval, complicating our understanding of the relationship between religion and secularism.
LUMS Live Session 102: Where is a Teacher’s Community?
LUMS Live Session 102: Where is a Teacher’s Community?
March 11, 2022
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Teachers in Pakistan spend 90 percent of time in the classroom, whereas in developed educational systems teachers spend 60 -70 percent of their working time in the classroom and 30-40 percent of time in non-teaching activities to improve instruction. What is the significance of non-teaching communal activities to the continuous professional learning of teachers in schools, and why?
Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
March 19, 2022 to March 20, 2022
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Organised by the Office of Accessibility and Inclusion, the Conference is designed to raise awareness of the importance of creating a future where persons with disabilities experience equal opportunity and develop policy proposals to chart this path in the specific area of Higher Educational Institutions. The Conference aims to:
LUMS Live Session 101: Development and Contention: Energy Politics in the Contemporary Era
LUMS Live Session 101: Development and Contention: Energy Politics in the Contemporary Era
March 10, 2022
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The preceding two decades have been characterised by the emergence of considerable protest and contention around issues of energy access. Riots, protests, sit-ins, and other forms of mobilisation are frequent occurrences in response to energy pricing, access, and availability in both the Global North and South. The literature around energy is dominated by technocratic and economistic approaches, pertaining to the creation of more efficient energy markets and resolving bottlenecks in development agendas.
CAPS Seminar: A Mindful Journey
CAPS Seminar: A Mindful Journey
March 10, 2022
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