Musical Heritage and Cultural Sustainability: A Global South Perspective
Date and location 23/01/2020Abstract The intimate relationship of musical practices with the social life of communities, and the...
HU Debating Championship
Date and location 10/01/2020-13/01/2020 Habib UniversityHabib University presents ‘Habib University Debating Championship 2020’. The format shall be British Parliamentary/University Debating...
Radio wavelength astronomy: history, techniques and observations
Date and location 21/11/2019Bio: Anna is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary, Canada. She studies Galactic...
Anthropocene Chaos and the Search for an Ordering Framework
Date and location 15/11/2019 Tariq Rafi Lecture Hall, Habib University
Digitize the analog and analog the digital in post-Moore era
Date and location 14/11/2019Moore's law, in its purest form, is coming to an end with CMOS transistor reaching...
Education in Sindh – Vision & Reality: Addressing the Gap
Date and location 08/11/2019 Tariq Rafi Lecture Hall, Habib University
Found in Translation
Date and location 08/11/2019 H.M Habib AuditoriumMohammed Hanif will be reading from his new book Red Birds and discussing the translation...
Friends or foes? Is Pakistan headed for a new water conflict with Afghanistan?
Date and location 05/11/2019 Tariq Rafi Lecture Hall, Habib UniversityA substantial fraction of total flow in the Indus River Basin, a critical lifeline for Pakistan’s agricultural-based economy, generates in other countries. Towards the eastern border, rapid infrastructure development from India threatens to reduce flows from Indus’ eastern tributaries governed by the Indus Water Treaty. On the western front, there is growing interest from Afghanistan in utilizing the hydroelectric potential of Kabul River, another major tributary to the Indus, where there is no existing transboundary water sharing agreement. Given the unique hydrology of the Kabul River, there is potential for increased conflict and mistrust between the two countries if development of the Kabul Basin is performed unilaterally.