Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
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Francesca Chubb-Confer | Whitman College
Francesca Chubb-Confer (visiting assistant professor at Whitman College) published an article, “Iqbal’s Falcons and Nightingales: Metaphor, Modernity, and the Poetics of Islam in South Asia,” for a special issue of the International Journal of Islam in Asia. Chubb-Confer’s article analyzes Persian and Urdu ghazal poetry by Muhammad Iqbal to demonstrate how particular metaphors for selfhood express the uncertainties Muslim communities experienced regarding the legacies of tradition and the new demands of late-colonial modernity.
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Monday, September 30, 2024