Disrupted City: A Lunchtime Seminar with Manan Ahmed

Date

April 3, 2025

Time

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Location

411 Fayerweather
1180 Amsterdam Avenue

Join the Committee on Global Thought for Disrupted City: A Lunchtime Seminar with Manan Ahmed. CGT member Manan Ahmed will be in conversation about his new book, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore, joined by fellow CGT member Carol Gluck. In Disrupted City, Ahmed (Associate Professor of History at Columbia University) brings to life a diverse and vibrant world by walking the city again and again over the course of many years. Along the way he joins Sufi study circles and architects doing restoration in the medieval parts of Lahore and speaks with a broad range of storytellers and historians.