Annual Urdu Conference at NYU, 2019

Re-Shaping Identity: Women Writers Writing Resistance in Urdu

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The Alliance for the Promotion of Urdu Studies (APUS) and the South Asian Language Programs at NYU Present: the Annual Urdu Conference at NYU, 2019

Re-Shaping Identity: Women Writers Writing Resistance in Urdu

Saturday, October 26, 2019
10AM - 6 PM
50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012


The day session is followed by a Mushaira: U.S.-based poets recite poems inspired by and in dedication to the Memory of Fehmida Riaz

Speakers:

  • Satish Kumar, University of Georgia - “Making, Unmakings and Remakings: Understanding the ‘New Woman’ within South Asian Modernities through Razia Sajjad Zaheer’s Short Stories.”
  • Bilal Hashmi, University of Toronto – “Qurratulain Hyder in the 'World Republic of Letters'”
  • Mahwash Shoaib, Piedmont Community College, NC - "Daftar-e-Imkaan/ World of Possibilities’: The Lyric of Fehmida Riaz.”
  • Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton University – “Ismat Chughtai”
  • Tahira Naqvi, New York University – “New Translations of Fehmida Riaz’s Poems”
  • Dr. Shehla Naqvi, writer – "Fehmida Riaz"
  • Raza Rumi, writer – "Kishwar Naheed"

 

 

 

Co-sponsors:
The Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies