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Pakistan's presence in the outside world is dominated by images of religious extremism and violence - a country thwarted in its march towards modernity and progress. In this talk, University of Manchester's Ammara Maqsood will examine these narratives, unraveling the linkages through which they are constructed and, moreover, how they shape and affect local class politics. In particular, she will focus on such themes in relation to religious trends and practices amongst the upwardly mobile urban groups - the new middle class- in Lahore, and the ways in which they interpret and navigate local and global hierarchies.    Date: April 9, 2018 Time: 4PM* Location: Arch 108, University of Pennsylvania   *Reception with light bites to be held at 4PM; talk to begin at 4:30PM   Ammara Maqsood is the author of the recently published The New Pakistani Middle Class, Harvard University Press, 2017.   

The talk is hosted by Tafsilan: Issues in Ethnographies of South Asia, A Graduate Student Reading Group. With support from: The Lauder Institute, CASI, Department of South Asia Studies, and Penn Anthropology.