Anthropology Workshop at UMT Inspires Social Scientists

Press Release (Lahore): The School of Advanced Studies (SAS) at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) conducted two-day workshop on August 26-27, 2015, titled "Exploring Anthropology and Ethnographic Research" to raise public awareness about the discipline and showcase the cultural diversity of Pakistan and the rest of the world. Workshop was organized by UMT SAS Assistant Professor Ali Islam Ghauri with a grant from the United States Education Foundation Pakistan (USEFP)

More than 80 participants, including students, professors, academic researchers, and social sector professionals attended the free workshop. The workshop featured four anthropologists trained in the American, French and Austrian disciplinary traditions, including SAS faculty members Ali Islam Ghauri and Muhammad Asif Khan in addition to Dr. Rao Nadeem Alam from Quaid-i-Azam University and Dr. Julie Flowerday from Forman Christian College. The workshop comprised seven sessions over two days, which covered an overview of anthropology, its history and development, basic anthropological concepts, forms of human interaction, and ethnographic research and its methods. The workshop ended with a cultural tour of Lahore.