School Events

Faiz Ahmed Faiz ~ Centenary Celebration

  


Date: 17 September 2011


Time: 1:30pm – 6.00pm


Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre


Speakers: 

• Iftikhar Arif (Poet)
• Professor Salima Hashmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
• Professor Aamer Hussain (University of Southampton)
• Professor Amir Mufti (University of California, USA)
• Dr Christina Oesterheld (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Professor Geeta Patel (University of Virginia, USA)
• Shahid Ali Syed (Faiz Cultural Academy)
• Dr Amina Yaqin (SOAS)

Venue: SOAS, Russell Square College Buildings, London WC1H 0XG


Type of Event: Seminar


Series: Framing Muslims

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Faiz has had, and continues to have, a national following as a people’s poet in Pakistan. He also remains a figurehead for the present generation of Urdu poets. He excelled in interweaving the classical ornamental style of an aristocratic Urdu rhyme and metre with modern social realism. He was a poet, a journalist, a policy advisor and cultural commentator whose career spanned the period of anti-colonial resistance and the aftermath of a post-partitioned state. The conference will address some of the following research questions:

• Tradition and modernity in Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry. Aesthetics vs politics. Can the two co-exist.
• Progressivism and nationalism in Faiz’s writings.
• How can we understand Faiz’s poetic voice in a contemporary Muslim context?
• What was the impact of modernism on Faiz’s early poetic development?
• What kind of a postcolonial resistance is articulated by Faiz? What are some of the intersections and differences in his work with other postcolonial intellectuals and poets?
• Comparative approaches to the central themes of exile and loss in Faiz’s poetry.
• His reputation and reception.  Responses from his contemporaries.  His successo

For Programme, Speaker Bios and more information, please visit:


http://www.soas.ac.uk/centresoffice/events/framingmuslims/17sep2011-faiz-ahmed-faiz–centenary-celebration.html

Enquires/Registration

The event is free and open to the public.  No booking is required.

• Amina Yaqin, ay@soas.ac.uk
• Shahid Ali Syed, Faiz Cultural Academy, shahid_214@hotmail.com  /  Tel 07949296927
• Centres & Programmes, events@soas.ac.uk / Tel 020 7898 4892/3