An intensive two-day workshop, 19 and 20 April, in mediation, negotiation and diplomacy, with training in methodology and a practical focus on generating ideas and action proposals for preventing, de-escalating and mitigating tensions between the Western World and China.
Training: Participants learn about evidence-based conflict mediation and negotiation tools. They apply them in several exercises and develop related skills.

My presentation is a work-in-progress book about caregiving and domestic service from the late colonial period of South Asia (1930s) to contemporary times. It combines the historical and contemporary, following domestic workers over many generations and continents. In anthropology, care has featured under subjects such as ageing, migration, kinship, and medical anthropology, but structures and institutions of caregiving has been under theorized.

In Pakistan, official state ideology, with its insistence on sameness and unity – encapsulated in the idea of one nation, one language (Urdu) and one religion (Islam) – tries to erase difference in the name of nation-building. In everyday settings, however, relations and exchange between communities are often sustained through a maintenance rather than overcoming of difference. In this paper, I consider the centrality of the maintenance, rather than the closure of difference, in encounters between young Hindu and Muslim men and women in Karachi.