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Guest lecture

Jürgen Schaflechner on religious minorities in Pakistan

Welcome to a zoom-meeting where Dr.Jürgen Schaflechner will discuss his forthcoming book on religious minorities in Pakistan.

THRUST INTO HEAVEN (Pakistan 2016, 66min), a film by Juergen Schaflechner

Producer:
Being in the World Production.

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On Wednesday 30 October, from 15:00-16:30 Oslo time, will Dr. Jürgen Schaflechner discuss his forthcoming book on religious minorities in Pakistan (Columbia University Press, 2025). Dr. Schaflechner is research leader at the Freie Universität in Berlin as well as filmmaker, having made among others the film on Pakistan Thrust in Heaven (2016). His research focus is on religious minority movements in South Asia in the digital age.

The presentation will take place on zoom. To receive the zoom link of the discussion, please contact Alexander van der Haven (alexander.haven@uib.no).

For those interested in reading one of the book chapters which we will use for  of his book that we will discuss, please also contact Alexander van der Haven.