Friday, September 12
	4:00 - 6:00 pm	Welcome Reception	Harrison Institute / Small Library
	6:30 - 7:30 pm	Keynote Address Shamsur Rahman Faruqi A Modest Plea: Please Could We Have a Proper History of Urdu Literature?	Harrison Auditorium
Saturday, September 13
	9:15 - 9:30 am	Coffee & Bagels	Harrison Auditorium
	9:30 - 10:30 am	Panel I: Urdu Language and Literature in India and Pakistan Griffith Chaussee, Chair	Harrison Auditorium
		Sean Pue (Michigan State University), "Temporality in Pakistani Modernism" Mehr Farooqi (University of Virginia), "Writing Rekhtah in the Manner of Bedil! Why Ghalib Chose the Difficult Path" Discussion
	10:30 - 10:45 am	Coffee Break	Harrison Auditorium
	10:45 - 12:30 am	Panel II: Gender and Writing in Urdu Literature Geeta Patel, Chair	Harrison Auditorium
		Tanveer Anjum, "Female Writers' Self-Representations in Urdu Autobiographies" Christina Oesterheld (University of Heidelberg), "No Ladies Department in Literature, Please: Qurratulain Hyder's Experiences as a Writing Woman" Gail Minault (University of Texas), "Zay Kay Sheen, Aligarh's Purdah-Nashin Poet" Kamran Ali (University of Texas), "Partition, Perverts and Progressives: Cultural Debates in Pakistan's Early Years" Discussion
	12:30 - 2:30 pm	Break for Lunch
	2:30 - 4:10 pm	Panel III: Why Mir Taqi Mir Continues to Fascinate Alireza Korangy, Chair	Harrison Auditorium
		C.M. Naim (University of Chicago), "Mir in Fact and Fiction" Frances Pritchett (Columbia University), "Mir as Suffering Curmudgeon: The History of a Hatchet Job" Mohammad Mahfooz Khan (Jamia Millia Islamiya University), "Is Mir  Really a Poet of Sorrow and Pain?" Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Respondent Discussion
	4:10 - 4:25 pm	Coffee Break	Harrison Auditorium
	4:25 - 5:45 pm	Panel IV: Politics, Religion and Urdu Literature in South Asia Rich Barnett, Chair	Harrison Auditorium
		Barbara Metcalf (University of Michigan), "Urdu and the Madrasa in British India and After" Aditya Behl (University of Pennsylvania), "On the Shahrashob: Urbanism, Urbanity and Urdu Poetry" Akbar Hyder (University of Texas), "Josh: A Life of Passion and Paradox" Discussion
	5:45 - 6:30 pm	Coffee Break	Harrison Auditorium
	6:30 - 8:30 pm	Evening of Mushaira	Harrison Auditorium
		Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Muhammad Mahfooz Khan Syed Muhammad Ashraf Khalid Jawed Tanveer Anjum
	Please note: Evening events will break for Iftar at 7:29pm on Friday and at 7:28pm on Saturday.