{ "129732-21864490": { "datetime_modified":"20251117T153622", "datetime_start":"20250131T100000", "datetime_end":"20250131T150000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2025-01-31", "date_end":"2025-01-31", "time_start":"10:00:00", "time_end":"15:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"The 14th Annual CSAS Pakistan Conference | Seeing Pakistan", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"The 14th Annual CSAS Pakistan Conference | Seeing Pakistan", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Conference \/ Symposium", "event_type_id":"5", "description":"The 14th annual conference on Pakistan at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, brings our focus on Pakistani culture as it interacts with the processes of seeing and being seen. How do countries, peoples, and cultures come to be seen in a global framework? How might the shared qualities of sight and vision unite experiences as disparate as the art museum, the social media site, and the movie theater?\r\n\r\nWe kick off our conference with a screening of the 2023 film Wakhri, directed by Iram Parveen Bilal, at 7pm on Thursday, January 30th at the Michigan Theater. Wakhri dramatizes the extraordinary life and tragic death of Qandeel Baloch (1990-2016), who is often described as Pakistan\u2019s first social media celebrity.\r\n\r\nOn Friday, January 31st, we will begin with a keynote address from the film\u2019s director, Iram Parveen Bilal. A Pakistani writer, director, and producer based in Los Angeles, Bilal will speak to us about the process of making the film, what it means to be a Pakistani-American filmmaker today, and how her own use of the cinematic medium reflects upon Qandeel Baloch\u2019s use of the visually oriented world of social media. What parts of Wakhri the film, and of Baloch the historical figure, are particularly Pakistani, and what parts might we more correctly see as indicative of a shared global predicament as moving image media and social media respond to one another?\r\n\r\nOur conversation about seeing and being seen continues with a second keynote address by Saleema Waraich, an associate professor of Art History at Skidmore College. Waraich explores these issues through notions of invisibility and visibility, as elicited by the oppressive and unrelenting smog that blanketed Lahore for two weeks, briefly earning Lahore the title of the most polluted city in the world. One of the many hazardous conditions created by the smog was severely limited visibility, and in this talk, Waraich connects these precarious environmental conditions to a long-standing enthusiasm for \u201cdevelopment\u201d that relies on an inability to critically engage with and resist discourses of \u201cprogress\u201dand \u201cgrowth\u201d that pollute both people\u2019s minds and the environment. \r\n\r\nThis paper further queries how practices related to visibility that are associated with \u201cdevelopment\u201d manifest in recent restoration efforts involving Lahore's Mughal heritage. Waraich interrogates the image of Lahore\u2019s Mughal heritage for the tourist industry as promoted by the Walled City Authority of Lahore (WCAL) and the ways in which these sites are being used by local populations to represent themselves, in part through the selfie and TikTok cultures that drive many younger audiences to visit these sites. Asking what is being made visible (and consumable) through these forms of self-representation, what drives these systems of representation, and to what ends, this paper explores the relationship between (not) seeing and being seen and probes the spaces in between.\r\n\r\nPakistan Conference Schedule\r\n\r\n10:00 to 10:30 AM Welcome, breakfast, opening remarks\r\n\r\n10:30 AM to Noon Iram Parveen Bilal, filmmaker, Wakhri\r\n\r\nNoon to 1:00 PM Lunch\r\n\r\n1:00 to 2:30 PM Saleema Waraich, Skidmore College\r\n\r\n2.30 to 3:00P PM Closing discussion\r\n\r\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at csas@umich.edu. 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Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don\u2019t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.\u00a0\u00a0\n \nIn this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum\u2019s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. 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From the toxic polarization, division and extreme racist violence that resulted in one of the worst mass shootings at a religious site in American history, Pardeep insists that complete healing must eventually be a collective process for all, to liberate both sides.\nAt Stamps Gallery, Impossible Conversations will be accompanied by a dialogue and research room as well as photomurals that expand on the themes of restorative justice, gun violence, and how to sustain difficult dialogues to combat extremism and toxic polarization. \nExhibition curated by Srimoyee Mitra. Impossible Conversations has been supported in part by the Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration (ARIA) program of The University of Michigan Office of the Vice President Research and the Arts Initiative, Institute of Firearm Prevention Pilot Grant, the Stamps School of Art and Design, and the University of the Arts London. \nExhibition Programs\nAn Opening Screening, Talkback, and Reception will take place on Friday, January 17, 2025 from 5:30 \u2013 8 p.m., and a Symposium will take place on Saturday, January 18, 2025 from 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. \nAbout the Artists\nPrat\u0101p Rughani is a writer and non-fiction filmmaker. His work develops documentary practice to enable people of radically different perspectives come into relation, sometimes in the aftermath of violence and atrocity for example in South Africa, Aboriginal Australia, Europe, Rwanda and the USA. Configuring a pro-filmic space to enable shared \u201cwitnessing\u201d and the path towards restorative justice is a driving force in \u201cImpossible Conversations\u201d evolving through his practice in over thirty documentary films and exhibitions for BBC TV, Channel 4, Modern Art Oxford, galleries and activist groups. The ethics of giving sustained attention to the experiences of marginalized, excluded or sometimes reviled \u201cothers\u201d and bringing them in relationship to the broader culture is central to his research into ethics of storytelling and the development of \u201cRestorative Narrative.\u201d\nRughani writes widely on the ethics of creative practice, serves on several editorial Boards, has won awards for film, teaching, and research, and is Professor of Documentary Practices at the University of the Arts, London.\nDavid Chung is an acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker. 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