I-SAPS Colloquium 19-20 March 2012
I-SAPS organizes multi-disciplinary colloquium annually that brings scholars from diverse academic and conceptual backgrounds together to share their research and debate deep seated conceptual assumptions in the production of knowledge and its relevance with Pakistani social and political realities. The colloquia are planned in such a manner that encourages participants to draw lessons for public policy and its effective delivery with insights drawn from different disciples of social sciences. I-SAPS welcome theoretical and empirical contributions from historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists, psychologist, and development practitioners on a select theme of the colloquium each year. The theme for 2012 colloquium is “Public Action in Pakistan: Between Apathy and Anger”.
International Colloquium on: “Public Action in Pakistan: Between Apathy and Anger”
Institute of Social and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS) is organising International Colloquium 2012 in collaboration with Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Pakistan (SSHRCP), Higher Education Commission. The theme for 2012 colloquium is “Public Action in Pakistan: Between Apathy and Anger.” The Colloquium aims to examine the relative absence of robust movements of public action in Pakistan and the region and the genealogy of ‘apathy’ or ‘anger’ in the public sphere. Normally, the theorists assert that the absence of local collective action is accompanied by ‘apathy’ or ‘anger’ suggesting that these are the problems that need to be addressed to solve the problems of the region.
I-SAPS is inviting leading academics, policymakers and civil society leaders on the Colloquium to discuss issues related with collective action in the public sphere, with special reference to (i) the subject’s relationship with societal changes and (ii) the relationship of different social groups with social transformation. I-SAPS Colloquium seeks to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries and easy prescriptions to analyse the historical and cultural conditions which produce such responses.
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