Yasmin Saikia published two essays in the 2011-12 academic year. One is entitled, ‘Insāniyat for Peace: Survivors Narrative of the 1971 War of Bangladesh,’ Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 13, no. 4, November 2011, pp. 475-501, and the other one is entitled, ‘War as History, Humanity in Violence: Women, Men, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh,’ pp. 152-172, In Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, ed. Lisa Heinemann (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
Along with Chad Haines, Yasmin hosted an international conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 22-23, 2012. The conference theme was ‘Being Muslim in the World: Everyday Ethics and Cultures of Adab.’ She also delivered the Sanjoy Ghosh Memorial Lecture in Bikaner, Rajasthan on December 11, 2011 and the 13th McDonald Lecture at Angel Fire, New Mexico, August 9, 2011. She gave the keynote lecture at the Center for Civilizational Dialogues, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, on July 4, 2011. Yasmin also presented papers in the American Historical Association Conference (January 2012), Annual Asian Studies Conference (March 2012), Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi (December 2011), Conference on ‘Human Rights through the prism of Gender and Religion,’ March 16, 2012, Arizona State University, ‘Translation Studies in Pakistan: New Horizons,’ Gujrat University, Pakistan, June 6, 2012, Bricklane Circle, London, March 23, 2012, and Harvard South Asia Forum, March 19, 2012. Along with Tanvir Anjum of Quaid e-Azam University, Islamabad, Yasmin led the AIPS History Dissertation workshop in December 2011. She is currently completing two edited volumes titled Women, Islam, and Peace and Pakistan Reader; both are forthcoming from Duke University Press. As well, she is researching her new book tentatively titled Decolonized: Muslim Memories of Human Dignity and Autonomy in British Colonial India (1910-1940).