Main Hall

Brockway Room

Library

 10.30 am to 12 noon

POWER WOMEN OF SOUTH ASIA: THEIR JOURNEYS

Bangladesh:

Sadaf Saaz

India:

 Loveleen Kacker

Pakistan: Saira Awan Malik, Sayeeda Leghari, Fatima Asad-Said, Bushra Zulfiqar

Moderator. Sulema Jahangir

10.30 to 11.30 am. BOOK TALK: FAROOQ BAJWA’S FROM KUTCH TO TASHKENT

THE INDO-PAKISTAN WAR OF 1965

 Makhdoom Ali Khan, William Crawley, Najam Abbas and Sarah Ansari in Conversation with the author

چار مصننفین اور ان کی کتابیں: گفتگو خواتین کی تحریر پر

A CONVERSATION WITH FOUR AUTHORS ABOUT THEIR BOOKS AND WOMEN’S WRITINGS IN URDU

Moderator: Kamran Asdar Ali

–Fatema Hassan’s URDU SHA'IRAT AUR NISAI SHA'OOR 100 BARAS KA SAFAR (1920-2020) [Feminist consciousness in Urdu poetry from 1920-2020]

–Amina Yaqin’s  GENDER, SEXUALITY AND FEMINISM IN PAKISTANI URDU WRITING 

–Noor Zaheer’s 4-volume THE LANGUAGE THEY CHOSE (an anthology of her translations of 100 years of fiction and nonfiction by women Urdu writers)

–Aamer Hussein’s HOUSE OF TREASURES (book of critical writings that includes several women Urdu writers)

11.35  am to 12 noon.

THE STATE OF PAKISTAN

 A TALK BY TARIQ ALI

  12.05

to 1.05 pm

A NEED FOR HERITAGES NOT LEGACIES: THE CASE FOR NATURE RESERVES ON KARACHI'S ISLANDS

 Tariq Alexander Qaiser

Moderator. Umber Khairi

YASMEEN LARI: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE FUTURE

Yasmeen Lari in conversation with Chris Moffat and Huma Yusuf

BOOK TALK: PAKISTAN LEFT REVIEW: THEN AND NOW. Edited by Nadir Cheema and Stephen M. Lyon

Rashed Rahman, Kamran Asdar Ali with the editors.

1.10

to

2.10

pm

BOOK TALK. SHAHBAZ TASEER’S

LOST TO THE WORLD. A MEMOIR OF FAITH, FAMILY, AND FIVE YEARS IN TERRORIST CAPTIVITY

Haleema Hijazi  in conversation with the author

BOOK LAUNCH: TOWARDS PEOPLES' HISTORIES IN PAKISTAN: (IN)AUDIBLE VOICES, FORGOTTEN PASTS. Edited by Kamran Asdar Ali and Asad Ali

Mahvish Ahmed, Humera Iqtidar with the editors. Moderator Chris Moffat 

PAKISTAN AT THE ZERO POINT ONCE AGAIN

Mohammad Waseem, Yasser Kureshi, Asma Faiz

PPPI 2.15

to

3.15  pm

IT’S ONLY A GAME: PAKISTANI CRICKET AND THE NATION

Richard Heller, Ali Khan, Qamar Ahmad. Moderator: Farooq Bajwa

Jamil Dehlavi in Conversation with Mo Muzammal

PAKISTAN. THE FAULT IS NOT IN OUR STARS BUT IN OURSELVES

Amin Hashwani in conversation with Azhar Abbas

3.20

to

4.20

pm

BOOK LAUNCH. KAREN ARMSTRONG’S SACRED NATURE

Amin Hashwani in Conversation with the author

خواب، قصّہ، خیال، افسانہ KHWAAB, QISSA, KHAYAL, AFSANA

Javed Siddiqui in Conversation with Saif Mahmood

 IT WAS THE SEASON OF LIGHT, IT WAS THE SEASON OF DARKNESS. EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN

Muhammad Hassan Khan,  Anjum Halai, Attiya Noon. Moderator. Nigham Shahid

4.25

to

5.25 pm

BOOK LAUNCH. ISKANDER MIRZA. HONOUR BOUND TO PAKISTAN IN DUTY, DESTINY AND DEATH: PAKISTAN’S FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT’S MEMOIRS FROM EXILE

Faisal Devji, Farzana Shaikh, Syed Khawar Mehdi, Azhar Abbas

Moderator Mukulika Banerjee

THE CHOICE TO WRITE FICTION

Shazaf Fatima Haider (moderator) in conversation with Iftikhar Malik, Sarmila Bose, Aamer Hussein, Sadia Abbas, Faiza Sultan Khan.

BOOK TALK: STEPHEN LYON’S POLITICAL KINSHIP IN PAKISTAN

Makhdoom Ali Khan and Sarah Ansari in conversation with the author.

 5.30

to

 6.30 pm

THE ROOT CAUSES OF

PAKISTAN’S ECONOMIC CRISIS AND HOW TO ADDRESS THEM

Ishrat Husain,  Shabbar Zaidi, Reza Baqir, Zafar Masud

 Moderator: Nadir Cheema

5:30-6 pm BOOK LAUNCH. THE ONE WHO DID NOT ASK. RUKHSANA AHMAD’S TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH OF ALTAF FATIMA’S URDU NOVEL, DASTAK NA DO

Rukhsana Ahmad in conversation with Maliha Haider. Introduction by the publisher, Ameena Saiyid

6-6:30 pm: BOOK LAUNCH. ASAD QURESHI’S 165 DAYS: PRISONER OF THE TALIBAN 

Umber Khairi, Ahmed Alauddin Jamal in conversation with the author

BUILDING UNIVERSITIES OF EXCELLENCE IN PAKISTAN

Marie Lall, Kamal Munir, Anjum Halai

Moderator: Paul Flather