Keynote Speaker | Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
She is the world’s foremost postcolonial and feminist thinkers. Born to a feminist mother and a gender-neutral father, Professor Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University, the first woman of color to receive this highest award.
Read More...Conference Chair | Dr. Nauman Naqvi
Dr. Nauman Naqvi received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia, Brown University and Connecticut College in subjects ranging across anthropology, history, literature and philosophy.
Read More...Speaker | Dr. Nadeem Omar Tarar
Dr. Nadeem Omar Tarar is the Director of the National College of Arts, Rawalpindi Campus. He holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of New South Wales and has also been affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as a Post-doctoral Researcher, and with MIT as a Post-doctoral Fellow.
Read More...Speaker | Dr. Nukhbah Langah
Dr. Nukhbah Langah received her PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, and returned to Pakistan in 2009. Her area of interest is postcolonial literatures with an emphasis on Siraiki language and literature.
Read More...Speaker | Dr. Syed Nomanul Haq
Dr. Syed Nomanul Haq is a historian, noted especially for his contributions to the fields of Islamic history, Islamic philosophy, and literature in Muslim societies. He has been a senior faculty member of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and has now joined IBA Karachi as Professor and Advisor to steer its Social Sciences and Liberal Arts initiative.
Read More...Speaker | Prof. Vibodh Parthasarathi
Prof. Vibodh Parthasarathi trained in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), in Mass Communication at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), and has an undergraduate degree in History from St. Stephens College, Delhi University.
Read More...Speaker | Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyar teaches Urdu at Punjab University, Oriental College Lahore. Dr. Nayyar’s research interests include modern and postmodern literary theory, linguistics, modern Urdu literature and postcolonialism.
Read More...Panelist | Fahmida Riaz (Poet, writer and activist)
Fahmida Riaz, writer, human rights activist, and feminist of Pakistan has authored more than 15 books on fiction and poetry.
Read More...Panelist | Attiya Dawood (Poet, writer and activist)
Attiya Dawood, the celebrated Sindhi poet, writer, and activist, has been hailed as the most important feminist writer in Sindhi by Shaikh Ayaz, the renowned Sindhi poet.
Read More...Panelist | Kishwar Naheed (Poet, writer and activist)
One of the leading literary figures in Pakistan and a prominent voice on the literary scene, Kishwar Naheed is widely known, and her work translated into eleven different languages, including Hindi, Arabic, Persian, French and Chinese.
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