Program
6:00 PM-6:30 PM: Networking
6:30 PM-8:00 PM: Presentation
8:00 PM-9:00 PM: drinks at The Midway Club, 5th Floor
Speaker Profiles
Manan Ahmed (Speaker)
PhD Candidate, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Manan Ahmed is a historian of Islam in South Asia. His interests lie in the formulations of Muslim pasts during the colonial and postcolonial periods, the intellectual history of Islamic revivalism and the modern political history of Pakistan. He has taught history of South Asia at the University of Chicago and at Loyola University and is scheduled to receive his PhD in early 2008. He has recently appeared on Chicago Tonight, Chicago Public Radio's Worldview with Jerome McDonald, and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! to discuss the current and ongoing crisis in Pakistan. You can read his articles on culture and history of South Asia at his blog, Chapati Mystery ( http://www.chapatimystery.com ) or at Informed Comment Global Affairs ( http://icga.blogspot.com/ )
Questions
Karl Buschmann
847 310 0412