Disrupted City Book Launch
Wednesday, November 6, 4:00pm
WLH 309 (100 Wall Street)
Manan Ahmed Asif’s Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore (The New Press, 2024) is a stunning history of Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual capital from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia. To understand modern Pakistan requires understanding its cultural capital, and Disrupted City uses Lahore’s cosmopolitan past and its fractured present to provide a critical lens to challenge the grand narratives of the Pakistani nation-state and its national project of writing history.
Professor Ahmed will join Professor Supriya Gandhi, Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Yale, for a conversation about the book, followed by dinner. Please RSVP at https://bit.ly/yaledisruptedcity.
