The Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature is pleased to be hosting its annual conference.
May 17, 2025
Time:
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Faculty Lounge, VC Office, LUMS
This year’s conference, titled 'Tashkīl-e-ʿIlm aur Lisānī Siyāsat: Aik Tārīkhī aur Siyāsī Muḥākmah', explores the complex relationship between language, knowledge production, and political power in colonial South Asia, with a particular focus on the languages spoken in present-day Pakistan.
Drawing on critical scholarship, the conference examine how colonial institutions and technologies, as well as local literary traditions, shaped emerging language-based identities and epistemologies. It will also consider the enduring legacies of these colonial discourses in the post-1947 context.
Please see the poster below for full details:
