Peace-building and conflict resolution
Organizer: Paula Newberg
Paula Newberg, University of Texas at Austin, is organizing a series of workshops on the theme of Peace-building and conflict resolution. The intended audience for these workshops is social science and law faculty. The first workshop on rights and the rule of law in building peace will be held in March of 2014 at the Centre for Public Policy & Governance, Forman Christian College. Goals of the workshop are to provide a background in the fundamentals of the subject, gain familiarity with tools of the trade, and help create a syllabus, or teaching module, in one or more elements of the subject. Additional workshops will take place in fall of 2014 on sources of conflict and governing toward cooperation at the AIPS Center in Islamabad with the final workshop on building peace and resolving conflicts in January of 2015 at the Centre for Public Policy & Governance, Forman Christian College.
Visual Analysis: art, architecture and media
Organizer: Iftikhar Dadi
Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University, is organizing a workshop series based on the theme of Visual Analysis: art, architecture and media. A series of three seminars on methodological questions and case studies on these areas will be offered during 2015. Participants will include faculty in the higher education sector from across Pakistan. The seminars will focus on assisting participants in developing their own curriculum and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and provide them with frameworks useful in furthering their individual research projects. The seminars are divided into 1) modern and contemporary art, 2) architectural history and theory of South Asia, and 3) South Asian media cultures: history, theory, and criticism.
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management
Organizer: Mark Kenoyer
J. Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is organizing a workshop series on teaching Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management. The objectives of this series is to provide examples of how archaeology is being taught in both large and small US Universities. Invitations are being sent to universities that have active programs of teaching archaeology and cultural heritage management. Selected participants will attend all three workshops to receive the full benefit of this series. Kenoyer has partnered with Quiad-i-Azam University for the delivery of the series.
ASU-AIPS Faculty Workshop
Organizer: Yasmin Saikia
Yasmin Saikia and her collegues from ASU are organization a workship series with the goal being to assist faculty in developing a) curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate levels and b) their scholarly research by introducing them to relevant theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying peace, including assignments aimed at deepening research skills that will have broad applicability beyond the specifics of this proposal.
Heterogeneity Amidst Presumed Homogeneity: Working in a Context of Diversity & Difference
Date: March 18-22nd, 2013
Location: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Workshop Leader: Andrew Hamid, PhD, School of Social Work, Columbia University
Workshop theme:
In the day-to-day course of their work, Psychologists and Social Workers provide services to a range of persons who represent a diversity of backgrounds. University departments of Psychology and Social Work and therefore charged with the task of preparing students to practice in a context of diversity. In a country like Pakistan where over 95% of the population is of the same religion, students often fall victim to the “fall consensus effect”, whereby failing to recognize multiple dimensions of diversity such as social class, ethnicity, gender, regional, and religious sect. Through this workshop, students will be provided with mechanisms for recognizing a broader spectrum of diversity and tools for assessing how clients’ experiences are shaped by their intersecting identities. As a result of this workshop, students will be able to: a) examine how their own biases influence their work with clients; b) explore how to incorporate the clients’ worldview in problem-formulation and problem-solving; c) enhance competency in engaging and assisting clients who represent a more complex spectrum of diversity than assumed.