9:30 - 9:45
Introductory remarks by the Provost and the Conference Chair
9:45 – 11:00
Keynote address: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Title: Higher Education in Our Sub-Continent
11:00 – 12:00
Panel 1: Colonial Frames & Postcolonial Resistance Speaker 1: Nadeem Omar Tarar Title: The Invention of Traditional Society in Colonial
Punjab: The Rise and the Fall of Folklore
Speaker 2: Nukhbah Langah Title: The Politics of Language in Higher Education: The
Case of South Punjab
Chair: Aaron Mulvany 12:00 – 1:00
Panel 2: The Crisis of Vernacular Research Speaker 1: Nasir Abbas Nayyar Title: Crisis of Urdu Research in Postcolonial Perspective Speaker 2: Nomanul Haq Title: Education, Alienation, and Control: The Language
Factor
Chair: Fahd Ali 1:00 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:00
Panel 3: Media & Pedagogy for a Postcolonial Future Speaker 1: Vibodh Parthasarthi Title: Freedom vs Diversity: An Enduring Tension in
Media Policy in India
Speaker 2: Nauman Naqvi Title: A Pedagogy of Inheritance & Sensibility
Chair: Nosheen Ali 3:00 – 4:30
Panel 4: Poetry & Feminist Futures Poets: Kishwar Naheed, Fehmida Riaz, Attiya Dawood Moderator: Asif Aslam Farrukhi
4:30 – 5:00
Tea