Waqas Butt: ‘Life Beyond Waste’

Wednesday 30th October, 2024

5:00 pm, ArtsTwo 3.20

The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to host a panel discussion of Waqas Butt’s new book, Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan (Stanford, 2023). This historical and ethnographic account of Lahore demonstrates how waste work has been central to organising and transforming urban landscapes, infrastructures and life in the city.

Waqas Butt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Julia Corwin is Assistant Professor in Environmental Geography at the LSE.

Layli Uddin is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at QMUL.

This event will be chaired by Majed Akhter, Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society at KCL

All welcome. No registration required. 

The seminar will take place in Room 3.20 of the ArtsTwo building, on QMUL’s Mile End campus. The location is numbered 35 on this QMUL campus map. Please be aware that the campus has become increasingly securitised, and if you are not a QM student or staff member, you will need to tell the guards at the entrance the details of the event you are attending.