Join us for this panel discussion with Per vez Hoodbhoy\, Gaurav Kampani\, Raminder Kaur\, and Sadia Tasleem\, moderat ed by M. V. Ramana with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
Friday\, May 25\, 2018
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Liu Institute
for Global Issues\, Multipurpose Room
6476 NW Marine Dr.\, Vancouver
– UBC Point Grey Campus
Light refreshments offered.
In May 1998\, India and Pak
istan conducted multiple nuclear weapon tests. Since then leaders in India
and Pakistan have supported and funded efforts to develop a range of missil
es\, airplanes\, and submarines to deliver these nuclear weapons\, and thei
r militaries have been preparing to fight nuclear wars. The panel will disc
uss the various dimensions of the risks and dangers associated with nuclear
weapons in India and Pakistan\, and the impact of the acquisition of nucle
ar weapons on other aspects of social and political life in South Asia.
Speaker profiles:
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is currently Zohra and Z.Z.Ahmad Distinguished Professor of Physics and Mathe matics at Forman Christian College-University\, Lahore. Earlier he taught f or 44 years at Quaid-e-Azam University. He has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics f rom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served on the UN Secr etary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs and on the Board of S ponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His contributions have be en recognized through a number of awards including the Baker Award for Elec tronics\, the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics\, UNESCO's Kalinga Prize fo r the popularization of science\, the American Physical Society’s Joseph A. Burton Award and the Jean Meyer Award from Tufts University.
Gaurav Kampani is assistant professor of political science at the University of Tu lsa in Oklahoma and a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council's South As ia Center. He has a Ph.D. in political science and government from Cornell University. He has worked at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation\, the Norwegian Institute of Defense Studies in O slo\, and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey.
Raminder Kaur is Professor of Anthropology & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She has a Ph.D. from SOAS\, University of London\, a nd is the author or co-author of a number of books and papers\, including " Atomic Mumbai: Living with the radiance of a thousand suns” (Routledge: 201 3).
Sadia Tasleem is a lecturer in the Department of Defence and Stra tegic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. She has worked at th e Institute for Strategic Studies\, National Defence University\, and the N ational University of Modern Languages. She is a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
Hosted by the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.