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Invited Lecture, "Silence and Forgetting in War: The Story of Writing Noor, A Novel," April 17, 2006, South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Invited Seminar, "South Asian Writers Speak: Women, War, and Trauma," South Asia Institute and Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin, March 8, 2006.

Panelist, "De-scribing Empire: Writing War and Trauma," with Waqas Khwaja, Sehba Sarwar, Syed Afzal Haider, Alka Roy, Mahmud Rahman, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, March 9, 2006, Austin, TX.

Panelist, "History Adrift: Fictional Worlds and Imagined Realities," with Waqas Khwaja, Sehba Sarwar, Syed Afzal Haider, Alka Roy, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, April 2005, Vancouver, BC.

Invited Lecture, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, "The Story of Noor: Silence and Forgetting in War," March 2005.

Guest Speaker, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Philip Gerard's Research Methods in Creative Writing Graduate Seminar, "Researching Noor," March 2005.

Guest Speaker, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, "My Fulbright Experience," March 2005.

Invited Lecture, University of Austin, Texas, English and Anthropology Departments, "The Stories of Noor," September 2004.

Chair and Panelist, "Reading: Pakistani Writing in English," with Waqas Khwaja, Moazaam Sheikh, Sehba Sarwar, Syed Afzal Haider, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2004.