AIPS Member Invited for Lectures and Interactions at Lahore University of Management Sciences

Professor Emeritus Muhammad Umar Memon was invited by the Gurmani Center for Languages and Literature, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to spend two weeks (15–26 Nov. 2014) on the LUMS campus to deliver lectures, hold an interactive conversations, and consult with students about their academic research work.

Memon sahib’s lectures attended by LUMS’s students and faculty and also to interested people from outside the University. The interactive conversation was moderated by Prof. Ziaul Hasan of University of the Punjab and LUMS.  In addition to Memon sahib, Prof. Tehsin Firaqi, Director, Majlis-e Taraqqi-e Adab, Prof. Bilal Tanveer of LUMS, and Prof. Asif Iftikhar also participated.   

He also made a ten-day visit to Islamabad and he was invited to give a lecture at International Islamic University (IIU) and Fatima Jinnah University (FJU). Because of sudden cancellation of all activities except teaching at IIU, Memon sahib was asked to instead see a number of faculty members informally and speak with them on a number of issues pertaining to Urdu literature. The FJU lecture, attended both by students and faculty, however, did take place and was well attended.

On December 3 he visited Karachi and had an interactive discussion on Urdu literature and translation with a group of interested students and non-students. This event was organized by  “t2f.”