All conference events will be held in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520.
The main conference proceedings will take place in the Luce Hall Auditorium (1st Floor) and refreshments will be served in the Luce Hall Common Room (2nd Floor).
Day One: Friday, April 13, 2018
10:00 am – 11:00 am
General Welcome / Coffee and Breakfast (Luce Hall Common Room)
11:00 am – 11:30 am
Opening Address: Naysan Adlparvar and Alessandro Monsutti (Luce Hall Auditorium)
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Keynote Speech and Discussion: Thomas Barfield – The Re-Emergence of Sub-National Identities and Power in Afghanistan: Cities, Regions and Ethnic Groups
Discussant: M. Nazif Shahrani (Luce Hall Auditorium)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch (Luce Hall Common Room)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel 1: Humanitarianism and Shifting Subjectivities (Luce Hall Auditorium)
Chair: Thomas Barfield
Antonio Donini – The Afghan Crisis in Historical Perspective: Humanitarian Action as a Vector of Social Change
Andrea Chiovenda – Globalizing Masculinity? Pashtun Afghans and the Impact of Two Decades of Foreign Development in Afghanistan
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Panel 2: New Frontiers in the Interpretation of Afghan Identity (Luce Hall Auditorium)
Chair: David Edwards
Khadija Abbasi – Home Bitter Home: “Iranigak”, New Forms of Identity in Afghanistan?
Omar Sharifi – Nauroz as Social Site, Living in an Afghan Atmosphere
Nafay Choudhury – Adapting to Markets: The Shifting Identities of Afghanistan’s Money Exchangers
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Day One Wrap-Up: Naysan Adlparvar and Alessandro Monsutti (Luce Hall Auditorium)
Day Two: Saturday, April 14, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am
General Welcome / Coffee and Breakfast (Luce Hall Common Room)
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Keynote Speech and Discussion: David Edwards – Sacrificial Identities
Discussant: Alessandro Monsutti (Luce Hall Auditorium)
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 3: Contemporary Dynamics of Hazara Identity (Luce Hall Auditorium)
Chair: Alessandro Monsutti
Melissa Chiovenda – Individual Suffering and Collective Trauma Among Ethnic Hazara Activists in Bamyan
Niamatullah Ibrahimi – Religion, Politics and Ethnic Identities in Afghanistan, 2001-17: The Case of Sunni Hazaras
Naysan Adlparvar – Returnees, Regional Identity and Entitlement: Emergent Class Relations in the Bamyan Valley
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch (Luce Hall Common Room)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Special Session: A Discussion with M. Nazif Shahrani – On Identity and the State
Discussant: Naysan Adlparvar (Luce Hall Auditorium)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Conference Wrap-Up: Naysan Adlparvar and Alessandro Monsutti (Luce Hall Auditorium)