The City & The Archive Workshop with Manan Ahmed Asif

Join the Yale Public Humanities Working Group for a workshop on The City & The Archive with Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia and author of Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore. Lunch will be provided.

How does power shape cities, and the role of archives and their afterlives? We will examine what it means to create an archive for writing the city.

Wednesday, November 6, 12:00pm
HQ 422 (320 York Street)
Please RSVP at https://bit.ly/cityarchiveworkshop

About the Speaker
Manan Ahmed, Associate Professor in the History Department at Columbia, is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. He also directs the Heyman Center Fellows at SOF/Heyman at Columbia. He is the author of A Book of Conquest: Tne Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016), Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020) and, most recently, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore (The New Press, 2024).
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Program in American Studies.