Schedule<\/p>\n
***Below is the final schedule for the MWPF Conference (5-9 September, 2023). All times are UK summer time (UTC+1)<\/strong>***<\/p>\n 11:45am \u2013 1:00pm<\/strong> 1:00pm-2:30pm Nancy Sharma and Smita Jha: Palimpsests of Memory and Identity: A Critical Study of Elif Shafak\u2019s Three Daughters of Eve<\/em> (2016)<\/p>\n Adish A S and Reju George Mathew: A Kashmiri Woman Stuck in Crossfire: Locating Farah Bashir\u2019s Memoir in the Corpus of Women\u2019s Life-writings<\/p>\n Wafa Hamid: Outsiders at Home: (Be)longing, Dislocation and Identity in Annie Zaidi\u2019s Bread, Cement, Cactus<\/em><\/p>\n Panel Session 1B: Romance and Chick Lit 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Anam Feroz: \u201cI am My Hero\u201d: Foregrounding Islam in Presentation of Female Subjectivities in Pakistani Popular Fiction<\/p>\n Faisal Nazir: How it Happened: Towards a Muslim Women\u2019s Minor Literature<\/p>\n 2.30pm-3.00pm 3.00pm-4.30pm<\/strong> Karen Ferreira-Meyers: Muslima in South African crime fiction: a scoping review<\/p>\n Nayab Sadiq: Such is this Loneliness: Pakistani Television Drama, Female agency combined with Profeminist Activism<\/p>\n Khamsa Qasim: Karachi is a wasteland where it is easy to find an assassin than meet an attractive, single intelligent man”: Investigating Urban Walking and The poetics of A Playful Fl\u00e2neusian Gaze on Contemporary Karachi in Karachi you Are Killing Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n Panel Session 2B: Erotic and Romantic Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Uzma A. Ansari: Halal Sex\/ Sex is Halal: A decolonial reading of the libidinous imaginary of Layla Abdulla-Poulos aka Lyndell William\u2019s romance novels.<\/p>\n Diviani Chaudhuri: Stepping out of line without experiencing pleasure: the politics of unmet desire in Leila Slimani\u2019s Adele<\/em><\/p>\n Grace Adeneye: \u201cThe Mills and Boon Muslim,\u201d: Past, Present, and Future Representations<\/p>\n 4.30pm-5.00pm 5.00pm-6.30pm \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 9.00am-9.30am<\/strong> 9.30am-11am Amal Sayyid: Vulnerability, Love, and Ethical Relationalities: Reconceiving Arab and Muslim Masculinities in Hafsa Faizal\u2019s Young Adult Fantasy Fiction<\/p>\n Shweta Sachdeva Jha: Unfulfilled Love\u2019, \u2018Corpses\u2019 and the Talented Mrs Hijab Imtiaz Ali (1908-1999)<\/p>\n Sana Younis: Critical Resistance: Imagining Muslim Worlds in Young Adult Fantasy<\/p>\n Panel Session 3B: Islam and Feminism<\/strong><\/p>\n Azam Sarwar: The Politics of (M)Othering and Pakistani Women\u2019s Cinema: Applying a Motherhood Studies and Islamic Feminism lens to Sitara: Let Girls Dream<\/em> (2020)<\/p>\n Abdullah Muhammad: Postfeminist Reading of Pakistani Popular Fiction by Women<\/p>\n Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury: Can the Muslim Women Speak in Egyptian Society? Interpreting Alifa Rifaat\u2019s Short Stories from Gender-Religion Nexus<\/p>\n 11.00am-11.30am 11:30am-1.00pm<\/strong> Esra Santesso: Feminism Revisited: Muslim Comics and Female Visibility<\/span><\/p>\n Aleena Shahzad, \u201cGrief Comes in Waves\u201d: Graphic Representation of Skin Borders via Pencilling Comics in Grey Matter by Sabdezar Irfan<\/p>\n Shekufeh Owlia: Wavering between Decolonization and Neo-Orientalism: A Study of Marjane Satrapi\u2019s Graphic Memoir Persepolis<\/em><\/p>\n Panel Session 4B:\u00a0Humour<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniela Vitolo: Of Agency and Humour: Representing Women in Pakistani Chick Lit<\/p>\n Madiha Noman: Politics and Punchlines: The Quiet Rebellion of Indian Muslim Women in Stand-up Comedy<\/span><\/p>\n Srestha Bhattacharya: Humour and Self-representation in Muslim Women’s Genre Fiction<\/p>\n 1.00pm-2.00pm 2.00pm-3.30pm<\/strong> Sobia Kiran: The Alien in Space: Sidra f. Sheikh\u2019s The Light Blue Jumper<\/em> (2017)<\/p>\n Fauzia Abid: From Burned out to Bestowed: Techno Females Enjoying the Thrill of Glass cliff Via Heterotopias of Deviation in\u00a0 Sidra F. Sheikh\u2019s The Light Blue Jumper<\/em><\/p>\n Asma Mansoor and Aroosa Kanwal: Miracle, Marvel or Abomination? Re-conceptualising Djinn, Posthumanism and Islam in the Daevabad Trilogy<\/p>\n Panel Session 5B: Romance and Chick Lit 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric Selinger: Irony, Faith, and Genre in Ayisha Malik\u2019s Sofia Khan Trilogy<\/p>\n Amy Burge: \u201cNot that type of book\u201d?: Genre and Expectation in Ayisha Malik\u2019s \u2018Sofia Khan\u2019 Trilogy<\/p>\n Muhammed Farouk Salem: \u201cWe strive to remain lifelong friends”: Muslim Women’s Bonding in These Impossible Things<\/em> and The Girls of Riyadh<\/em><\/p>\n 3:30pm-4.00pm 4.00pm-5.00pm \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 9.30-10.00am<\/b> 10.00am-12.00pm<\/b> Javaria Farooqui: Haya, Noor, and Emaan: Legitimizing Love in Urdu Popular Romance Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n Rosy Hastir and Ajoy Batta: Transforming the Identity of Muslim Women in Pakistani Theatres: A Saga of Noteworthy Muslim Women\u2019s Popular Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n Sadaf Mehmood: Transgressive Bodies: Rehumanizing Prostitutes in Pakistani Popular Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n Rehnuma Sazzad: Decoloniality and Popular fiction: Leila Aboulela\u2019s <\/span>Minaret<\/span><\/i> (2006) and <\/span>The Kindness of Enemies<\/span><\/i> (2016)<\/span><\/p>\n Panel Session 6B: Diasporic and Transnational Muslims\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Elham Fatma: Religious Trauma in Popular Fiction by Select West-Based Queer Muslim Women of South Asian Descent<\/span><\/p>\n Antalin Shalu: Breaking Stereotypes: An Intersectional Analysis of Muslim American Women’s Identities in S.K. Ali’s <\/span>Saints and Misfits<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Esra Almas and Simla Do\u011fang\u00fcn: Muslim Women Across Empires: Keniz\u00e9 Mourad\u2019s Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n Emel Zorluo\u011flu Akbey: Leila Aboulela\u2019s Popular Fiction as World Literature<\/span><\/p>\n 12:00pm \u2013 1:00pm<\/b> 1.00pm-2.15pm<\/b> 2.15pm-2.45pm<\/b> 2.45pm-4.15pm<\/b> Zaynab Seedat: \u201cThis Time We Have the Words and We Have the Means\u201d: Feminist Resistance and Digital Occupation in Fozia Qazi\u2019s \u201cCurfew Diary\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Simi Salim: Virtual Pa<\/span>\u1e5f<\/span>uud\u012bsa and Sufi Whirls: Muslim Women\u2019s Digital Life Writings in South India<\/span><\/p>\n Sameena Kausar: <\/span>Girls of Riyadh<\/span><\/i>: Voice to the marginalized half of society: Emails as a tool to express and convey<\/span><\/p>\n Panel Session 7B: Countering Stereotypes\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Miquel Pomar Amer: Shaping up the terrorist-hero for romance in Sara Naveed\u2019s <\/span>Our Story Ends Here<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Seham Arishi:\u00a0<\/span>Material and Discursive Containment of Afghan Women\u2019s Narratives in the UK Publishing Industry<\/p>\n Ramisha Rafique: The Postcolonial Fl\u00e2neuse as Activist<\/span><\/p>\n Evening<\/b> <\/p>\n 9.15-9.45am<\/strong> 10.00am-11.15am 11.15am-11.45am 11.45am-1.00pm 1.00pm-2.00pm 2.00pm-3.30pm 3.30pm-4.00pm<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Morning Note: all the below events are optional and self-organised i.e. you will need book these yourself, they are not part of the conference organisation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 10.30am-12.30pm: Birmingham City Walking Tour, Digbeth, Public Art & Peaky Film Tour<\/a> (must pre-book)<\/p>\nTuesday 5 September<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nRegistration, Lunch and Welcome<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Panel Session 1A: M<\/strong>emory and Memoir<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPanel Session 2A: Crime and Detective Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Comfort Break<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Illustrating Muslim Lives
\n<\/strong>Wasafiri<\/em>‘s Deputy Editor Sana Goyal moderates a\u00a0panel in conversation with Sabba Khan<\/strong> and Deena Mohamed<\/strong>, two illustrators and authors who\u00a0<\/em>offer critiques of capitalism, sexism, and racism, capturing urban life, and confronting the state \u2014 its borders and bureaucracy \u2013 through compelling words and images in their books: The Roles We Play and Your Wish is My Command. Fifteen years after the publication of Marjane Satrapi\u2019s Persepolis, how are women and artists of colour using the graphic form to tell their stories and continue to defy stereotypes today? How do, and can, graphics and comics shape contemporary ways of storytelling \u2014 beyond words? What can future forms of illustration look like?<\/p>\nWednesday 6 September<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nRegistration and Coffee<\/p>\n
\nPanel Session 3A:<\/strong> Fantasy and the Uncanny<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPanel Session 4A: Graphic Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLunch<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPanel Session 5A: Other Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSadia Azmat, author of <\/b>Sex Bomb,\u00a0<\/i>in conversation<\/b>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nThursday 7 September <\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n<\/span>Registration and Coffee<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Panel Session 6A: Female Agency\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Lunch<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Keynote 1: Claire Chambers – <\/b>Pandemics, Health Inequality, and Muslim Women\u2019s Writing<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Break<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Panel Session 7A: Digital<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Conference Dinner (optional)<\/b><\/p>\nFriday 8 September<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nRegistration and Coffee<\/p>\n
\nKeynote 2: Rehana Ahmed –\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cWe Tick: Other\u201d: Religion, Race, and Literary Solidarities in Three Essay Anthologies<\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWriting and networking session 1 (for all attendees)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLunch<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWriting and networking session 2 (for all attendees)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFarewell<\/p>\nSaturday 9 September (optional)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nOptional activities<\/strong><\/p>\n