{"id":41646,"date":"2018-01-03T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41646"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T09:14:18","slug":"itu-set-to-hold-two-day-intl-academic-literary-festival-afkar-e-taza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41646","title":{"rendered":"ITU set to hold two day int\u2019l academic literary festival, \u201cAfkar-e-Taza\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE Jan 03 (TNS):<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0The second edition of Afkar-e-Taza, a two day international academic literary festival pioneered by Information Technology University\u2019s founding Vice Chancellor Dr. Umar Saif is being organised on January 13-14, 2018 at the Alhamra Centre, Mall Road, Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>This festival focuses on world-class academics and their work in the evolving discourse in Pakistan. This festival will \u2018bring robust academic discourse to the fore in an accessible and engaging fashion\u2019, remarked Dr. Saif.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will run from 10am to 6pm on both days and will feature three concurrent panels, together with musical performances and a food festival. The event is partnered with both the HEC, PHEC and several educational institutions for ensuring a true academic literary festival of Lahore. Over fifty international and national speakers from arts, literature, social sciences, humanities, science and other fields will feature in the festival, hailing from nearly a dozen countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Jan 03 (TNS): \u00a0\u00a0The second edition of Afkar-e-Taza, a two day international academic literary festival pioneered by Information Technology University\u2019s founding Vice Chancellor Dr. Umar Saif is being organised on January 13-14, 2018 at the Alhamra Centre, Mall Road, Lahore. This festival focuses on world-class academics and their work in the evolving discourse in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-41646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41648,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions\/41648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}