Professor to visit Pakistan
■Anita Weiss has been
invited to deliver the annual
Distinguished Lecture
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
International studies professor
Anita Weiss has a three-page list of
interviews and appearances she’s
granted or turned down since the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Weiss, who teaches a class called
“In the Wake of Sept. 11: Issues and
Concerns’’ to 85 students this term,
said she has been so busy talking
about the politics and history be
hind the attacks and the U.S. re
sponse that she hasn’t even had
time to clean her office.
“This is a mess,” she said, survey
ing the piles of papers and books
strewn about the office, located on
the third story of Prince Lucien
Campbell Hall.
Looking at her upcoming sched
ule, it seems Weiss won’t have time
to clean any time soon. She leaves
tomorrow for Islamabad, Pakistan,
where she will deliver the Distin
guished Lecture at the Pakistan So
ciety of Development Economists’
annual meeting. Weiss is returning
to Pakistan for the second time this
year; she was there on Sept. 11. This
time she will spend four days in
Pakistan and return to work after the
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean
Joe Stone said the invitation was a
distinction for Weiss and an indica
. tor of the University’s visibility.
“Exchanges between cultures build
relationships that provide perspective
when there is a time of crisis,” he said.
Weiss, who co-edited the recent
book “Power and Civil Society in Pak
istan , ’ ’ has studied Pakistan and Islam
r
Leon lovey tmerald
Professor Anita Weiss works from her cluttered office as she prepares to leave for Pakistan.
ic societies for more than 20 years. She
has traveled in Pakistan many times,
visiting parts of the country where she
said “other people just can’t go. ”
“I think it will be cathartic for me
to go,” Weiss said. She added that
she hopes “Pakistan hasn’t aban
doned the promise that was show
ing before Sept. 11.”
Her lecture will’focus on the need
for Pakistan to develop an economic
system tailored to the needs of its
people rather than the demands of
the global economy; she said she
hopes that Pakistani economic lead
ers have similar ideas.
“It’s important to me to see how
the (Pakistani) politicians are work
ing,” she said. Prior to the attacks,
the United Nations had imposed
economic sanctions on Pakistan af
ter the country conducted above
ground nuclear weapons testing in
1998. But Weiss said the country
has strived to improve its economy
and become more democratic.
Since the attacks, however, Pak
istan has faced a number of internal
and external problems. The Bush
administration has courted the
country as an ally against terrorism,
and India has denounced it for al
legedly supporting terrorists in the
disputed territory of Kashmir.
The two countries have fought
two wars over Kashmir in the past 50
years and the current dispute, which
began after terrorists killed 14 peo
ple in an attack on the Indian parlia
ment a month ago, has once again
brought the two nuclear-armed na
tions to the brink of war. Weiss said
the confrontation is a result of both
the “Hindu Supremacist” attitudes
of India’s administration.and the
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
By launching attacks against
Afghanistan in order to hunt down
Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, the
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