Theme: Beyond Man

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TEDxUCP
1 - Khayaban-e-Jinnah Road, Johar Town، Lahore
University of Central Punjab's Auditorium
Lahore, Punjab, 54000
Pakistan

Dr. Arfa Zehra

Dr. Arfa Sayeda Zehra is a Pakistani educationist and Urdu language expert. She studied first at Lahore College for Women University, then Government College University, with further degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Zehra is a professor emeritus of history at Forman Christian College and is a former principal of the Lahore College for Women University. She was a chairperson on the National Commission on the Status of Women. She is a former caretaker provincial minister of Punjab. She is recognized for her knowledge on the Urdu language and literature and is specialized in intellectual history and South Asian social issues; outside of the university sphere, she speaks at language conferences and televised forums.

Kanza Bano

Kanza Bano is an architect by profession and a student of the illustrious art form of Kathak. Having Studied under the prestigious ustad, Nighat Choudry, she has spent 4 years under her care and tutelage to pursue her calling for the North Indian form of classical dance that exists as part of a rich heritage and also serves as a vibrant mode of artistic expression within a contemporary understanding.

Nighat Chaodhary

Born in Lahore and brought up in England, Nighat Chaodhry has been a dancer from an early age as her skills were vividly visible when she was still a toddler. Later under the tutelage of legendary kathak dancer Naheed Saddque, she got herself groomed to perfection. Besides learning ballet and contemporary dance in London, she got herself trained in Kathak through the venerated institution of Kathak Kendra in Delhi, from Pandi Durga Lal of the Jaipur gharana. She graduated from Duke University in choreography and previously she has degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London. She was awarded the Pride of Performance by the President of Pakistan in 2018. She is also the founder of National Dance Foundation and aims to preserve the dance heritage of our country.

Sheherzade Peerzada

Sheherzade Noor Peerzada is an actress and comedian from Lahore. She has been involved in theater for over a decade, and has been an active member of Lahore’s stand-up comedy circuit for more than 3 years. Sheherzade received a degree in Political Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2019. Her work interrogates the interplay of gender and politics in contemporary Pakistani society.

Syed Ommer Amer

Ommer is an award winning social entrepreneur chasing a vision of ‘putting a book in every hand’ who founded Daastan – a technology company which has enabled 7000+ global authors to publish 300+ books in 30 genres and 02 languages. He is disrupting the Pakistan's literary space through content digitization, process automation and community building. Ommer is a published author, copywriter and a passionate public speaker who is crazy about working cause-based visionaries chasing audacious goals to make this world a better place to live in. He won multiple awards while representing Pakistan in Vietnam, Thailand and China as official delegate for multiple social entrepreneurship programs organized by UNDP. The world knows him as a literary enthusiast who fell in love with entrepreneurship and then never looked back.