Presented by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

• Sessions from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm open ONLY to Stanford Faculty and Students
• The 4:30 pm session is OPEN TO PUBLIC

Stanford Faculty and Students who RSVP will receive workshop papers when the papers become available.

RSVP at link or by email to abbasiprogram@stanford.edu

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

9:00 - 10:30 am: Border Crossings
Moderator: Parna Sengupta, Introduction to Humanities Program, Stanford University

• Amin Tarzi, Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University
  “Yaghistan Revisited: The Struggle for Domination of Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands”
• James Caron, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  “Divisive Hegemonies and Interlinked Publics: Case Studies of Religious Scholarship and Social Awareness in Afghanistan and the North West Frontier Province, 1930-2008”
• Jamal Elias, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  “Identity, Modernity and Meaning in Pukhtun Truck Decoration”

10:30 -11 am: Coffee Break

11 am- 12:30 pm: Molding Minds and Bodies
Moderator: Steve Stedman, Center for Security and International Cooperation, Stanford University

• Tahir Andrabi, Economics, Pomona College
  “Religious Schooling in Pakistan and its Relation to Other Schooling Options: A Disaggregated Analysis”
• Farzana Shaikh, Asia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs
  “Will the ‘right’ kind of Islam save Pakistan?: The Sufi Antidote”
• Fariba Nawa, Journalist, Fremont
  “Opium Nation”

2:00- 4:00 pm: Nations, Tribes, and Others
Moderator: Aishwary Kumar, Department of History, Stanford University

• Gilles Dorronsoro, The Carnegie Endowment
  “Religious, Political and Tribal Networks in the Afghan War”
• Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Department of History, James Madison University
  “Epistemological Quandaries of the Afghan Nation: Mobility, Territoriality and The Other”
• Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network
  “How Tribal Are the Taleban?”
• Lutz Rzehak, Humboldt University
  “How to Become a Baloch? The Dynamics of Ethnic Identities in Afghanistan”

4:00- 4:30 pm: Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 pm: Public Session: The Global Politics of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Moderators:

• Shahzad Bashir, Religious Studies, Stanford University
• Robert Crews, Department of History, Stanford University

[Co-sponsored with CISAC, Center for South Asia, Department of History, CREEES]

For more information, please see http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu or contact the program office at abbasiprogram@stanford.edu

China 2.0 at Stanford University, May 24-25, 2010

This two-day forum looks at the rise of China as a digital superpower.

May 2010 marks 15 years of China's first connection to the public Internet and 15 years of digital mobile communications. Home to 400 million online and 750 million mobile consumers, China is giving birth to innovative start-ups and established multi-billion dollar enterprises in social networking, games, video, music and e-commerce.

Companies thriving in China will increasingly shape the global digital economy, either by their sheer scale at home or through investments and mergers and acquisitions in the United States and other developed economies.

Join this invitation-only forum to meet with industry leaders from China and overseas to assess the likely future shape and implications of China's rise for consumers, industry players, investors, researchers and policy makers.

Conference Video Overviews 

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China 2.0 Introduction	Video: Tencent, Taobao and Baidu	Enabling China's Mobile Market	Chinese Digital Music Scene
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TV & Online Video	e-Commerce	Online Games

Audience 

Media & tech executives, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers, venture capitalists/private equity investors, policymakers.

Format 

• Presentations by the on-the-ground pioneers of China 2.0 
• Roundtable discussions on key issues and emerging trends
• Premiere of "vox pop" video interviews of Chinese Internet users filmed in Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an
• Conference highlights to be available online (subject to speaker approval)
• Interactive event, including a mobile application custom-made for participants

Participation and Pricing

Participation is by invitation-only. For more information, please contact SPRIE by email at sprie-stanford@stanford.edu.

The USD $50 fee covers conference sessions and materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. A limited number of free spaces are available for current Stanford faculty, students and staff.

Agenda (subject to change)

Map and parking:

The conference is being held in the Bechtel Conference Center, located at 616 Serra Street on the first floor of Encina Hall. Free event parking is available at the Galvez Field Event Parking Lot, located at Galvez and Campus Drive East. It is less than .5 mile from the parking lot to the event. If you park at a meter, be aware that parking is $1.50/hour and is monitored from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

China 2.0 Sponsors

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