April 16, 2026
Time:
6:00 pm
SIACR 0-06, SAHSOL, LUMS
The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) invites you to Can the Visual Speak?, a thought-provoking session under the theme Symbiosis of Visual Culture and Literary Studies.
The talk will be delivered by Dr. Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque, Assistant Professor at Kinnaird College for Women, and moderated by Syeda Habibah Hussain Rizvi, Teaching Fellow at LUMS.
This talk traces how stories change when they move from page to image, interrogating the symbiotic relationship between visual and literary forms. Drawing on literary theory and visual methodology, we examine the agency at work in adaptations, renditions and re-presentations of texts across media, exploring how the visual can espouse a relationship with the written. Discussion centres on how visuality constructs meaning, the politics of representation, and delves into the significance of incorporating the Other’s perspective into the frame of reference for a supposed “whole entity”, thereby, learning from varied vantage points to expand our view of this world and beyond, to create a new way of looking at it.
