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

An integrated approach based on a case study of a new neighborhood in the provincial capital of Jinan in Shandong, China

As part of SPRIE's current research on entrepreneurship and innovation in the green/cleantech space, we are pleased to present this seminar in cooperation with the Precourt Institute for Energy.

About the talk

This presentation will discuss an effort to integrate building energy and emission models with traffic simulation tools, in order to develop integrated urban energy and emission models. The assessment of the environmental impacts of transportation systems does not commonly include an analysis of the effects on building energy use. Similarly, neighborhood level building energy simulations often overlook the impacts of the density of the built environment and the configuration of the street network. Based on a case study of a masterplan for a new neighborhood in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, the modeling approach presented here aims to capture the way the built environment and transportation networks influence each other in terms of energy use and carbon emissions. The goal is to develop a more accurate method to evaluate and compare the environmental performance of various transportation and land use projects.

About the speaker

Nicolae Duduta is a dual Master’s candidate in Transportation Planning and Architecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. He has an undergraduate degree in Architecture and Sustainable Development from the National School of Architecture in Lyon, France.

For the past three years, he has worked as a research assistant  to Prof. Elizabeth Deakin at the Berkeley Center for Global Metropolitan Studies. Recent projects include developing planning guidelines for future High-Speed Rail stations in the Central Valley of California, and advising local governments in China to assess the environmental impacts of new urban developments.

His interests include sustainable transportation and urban design, and his recent work has focused on developing tools to evaluate the environmental performance of neighborhoods, by analyzing the performance of buildings, transportation systems, water and waste treatment and infrastructure.