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