Daily Times

A three-day international conference on ‘Interactions and Interchanges: Literature, Culture, Globalization’ concluded at the Kinnaird College for Women on Saturday.

The conference was organized by Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) Kinnaird College for Women in collaboration with Arizona State University (ASU).

The conference was aimed at celebrating the successful completion of three years of partnership between KC and ASU. About 200 research papers from 30 national and international universities were presented in the conference.

Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) Chairperson Dr Mohammad Nizamuddin was the guest of honor.

The event also inaugurated the second issue of Kinnaird Journal of Research and Reviews in Social Sciences by Colleen Crenwelge – US Consul General, along with the representatives of Arizona State University.

In the course of these three days, a variety of thematic topics relating to gender and body, belonging and dislocation, migrant populations, nations, and borders, colonialism and imperialism, experiences of war and peace, trauma and resilience, illness and healing,  urbanization and the environment, memory, history and identity, experiences of colonialism and post colonialism,  labor and work, were presented and discussed.

After significant contributions from Kinnaird College Principal Dr Rukhsana David and Director Research Dr GhazalaYaqub, the conference successfully marked the end of the partnership, which provided an opportunity for researchers and scholars from academia and industry to come together for broader collaboration in areas of common interest.

Published in Daily Times, December 9^th 2018.