Join us for a conversation about Coke Studio. The discussion will be followed by a screening of Mian Adnan Ahmed’s documentary “The Journey Within: The Coke Studio Origin Story” - including interviews with artists and musicians featured on the platform. 

April 11th, 2020

3-5 pm -  Round Table discussion

5-7 pm - Screening " The Journey Within"  

                                        Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU                                                 

                 255 Sullivan Street , NY 10012       

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  Featuring a Q & A with the Director - Mian Adnan Ahmed 

April 11, 2020 /  5-7 pm    

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, 255 Sullivan Street , NY 10012    

Preview Trailer:   https://vimeo.com/193915916

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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"

Moderators:  Zeynab Ali and Tahira Naqvi

Screening of Pakistani Film Rahm, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Filmmaker Alauddin Ahmed Jamal and other panelists.

Rahm Awards and Nominations:

Best adapted screenplay LAFF 2017 ( Mahmood Jamal)

Best actress,  Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) 2017 ( Sanam Saeed) 

Nominated for best director, Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) 2017 (Ahmed Jamal)

Nigar Awards Pakistan 2017 six nominations for 2017

Co-sponsored By:

The Alliance for the Promotion of Urdu Studies at NYU (APUS), the South Asian Language Programs at NYU, and the Auliya Council of North America

 ://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/neareaststudies/events/fall-2019/_who-will-believe-you-rahm-onstage-with-shakespeares-measure-for.html 

The Alliance for the Promotion of Urdu Studies at NYU (APUS), the South Asian Language Programs at NYU, and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies present "Writing Partition in Urdu".

Conference is Free and Open to the public:  PLEASE RSVP and track program changes at the conference's Facebook Public Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/248200782348858/

https://asiasociety.org/video/superstar-pakistani-vocalist-zeb-bangash-performs-pakistan-film-festival-new-york-complete 

The Pakistan Media and Culture Forum is proud to present "Mediations of the Self in Pakistan's Popular Visual Culture" at the Media, Culture and Communications Department at NYU , @nycsteinhardt @mccNYU & @nyukevo http://bit.ly/1MV8wW7  , 

I had been having these wonderful conversations with various friends and academics about the media in Pakistan and I thought it maybe useful to bring everyone together for a meaningful discussion. So  on November 20th 2015, I organized this event titled ‘Mediations of the Self in Pakistan’s Popular Visual Culture’ at the New York University’s department of Media, Culture and Communication . Among the participants were various academics like S. Akbar Zaidi, Tahira Naqvi, Afiya Zia and media related personalities like Mehreen Jabbar, Saad Khan and Arooj Aftab,  who were kind enough to take their time out to join our discussion. Also attending was Sheeba Khan a reporter from Hip Pakistan, who covered the event here . 

As the title of the event suggests, the underlying idea for hosting the discussion was to understand the ways in which Pakistan is being ‘imagined’ through its media and how the media is contributing to the notions of self-hood in Pakistan. In particular we wanted to talk about the tangible new sense of creativity and agency,  an openness to possibility, that is very discernible and visible in Pakistan’s public sphere presently. We wanted to know what it is? Where its coming from? And what kind of work its doing for culture and identity in Pakistan? What role does the media play in social meaning-making? Is popular cultural production democratizing the public sphere?    

----------Read the rest of this overview here. https://thecrookedcourtyard.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/mediations-of-the-self-in-pakistans-popular-visual-culture/ 

Much before Sabeen became a public figure, it had become evident to all those around her that she was an extraordinarily ‘different’ person. Sabeen, who was our fellow student and hostelite at Kinnaird College in Lahore, stood out from the very first day among the disparate groups of young girls at the Kinnaird hostel with her eccentric willfulness (and her signature Bermuda shorts !).  

Her disdain for the discipline and rigidity induced by the formal education systems was still evident years later when I met Sabeen last year at an event at NYU in New York. She was thinking about adopting a little girl,  who she emphatically underscored,  would only be home schooled with world as her classroom. Sabeen made a powerful case against structured schooling which turned young kids into automated robots and killed their creativity. She also consequently didn’t hold fancy degrees from Ivy League colleges in high regard either. So when she exclaimed ‘ Oho, aap tau boa hat barey loag ban gaye hain ‘ after I had told her rather apologetically about recently completeing MA from Columbia University and doing further graduate work at NYU, I knew to take her remark more as a jest than a compliment.      Read further here  https://thecrookedcourtyard.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/hello/ 

Pakistan Media and Culture Forum is hosting an informal  discussion with  Sabeen Mahmud about the politics of the digital media in Pakistan,  at the Media, Culture and Communications Department at NYU.  

April 22, 2014  

2 pm

at  239 Greene Street,  Floor 2, Room 201

New York, NY 10003

For more information    212-998-5191 | mcc@nyu.edu