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DESCRIPTION:This paper re-contextualizes Pakistan in the long history of As
 ian religious\, intellectual\, and cultural interactions\, portraying it a
 s a crucial meeting point in the creation of the premodern global world. P
 akistan was once a key mediator between South\, Central\, and East Asia\, 
 long before global exchange changed. The routes of Buddhist pilgrims\, Suf
 i saints\, Confucian scholars\, and merchants created a flow of knowledge\
 , ethics\, and art.\n\nThe paper posits that Pakistan’s historical lands
 capes\, influenced by Gandhara’s cosmopolitanism and Sufism’s universa
 lism\, represent a rich history of trans-regional exchange\, which challen
 ges Eurocentric views of globalization. It uses Joseph Stiglitz’s critiq
 ue to contrast modern global inequalities with premodern Asian models. By 
 highlighting these alternative connection structures\, the study reconside
 rs Pakistan’s role. It concludes that Pakistan’s complex past provides
  a historical foundation for an ethical and communicative global order tha
 t exists outside of neoliberal modernity. It concludes that Pakistan’s l
 ayered past presents a historically based model for an ethical and dialogi
 cal global order\, which corresponds with Korea’s history of cultural ex
 change and transnational solidarity.
DTSTAMP:20260412T140531Z
LOCATION:Room 208 (Seats 40)
SUMMARY:Global before Globalization: Pakistan and the Formation of Asia’s
  Connected Histories. - Iram Ahmad
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/KX9SQM/
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