July 2026
(xlviii) Interview recorded by writer and archivist Mehmood ul Hasan for his youtube channel Majmua-e- Khayal and released in three segments–https://youtu.be/AzMI8kkWQ48?si=gGhGFMftm-hu7CKn; https://youtu.be/LSPJhdEdF-c?si=eesRMcnniPAm_PDM; https://youtu.be/wo8vaCWdlIg?si=81NvrPW9eWSaEkli; July 14, 2026
(xlvii) Invited session with the 2025 & 2026 cohorts of Ph.D. (English Literature) candidates at Kinnaird College University, Lahore, to discuss their doctoral projects and research protocols and strategies, July 10, 2026
April 2025
(xlvi) Book presentation and performance, with Tony Geballe on guitar and synthesizer: bilingual edition of Waqas Khwaja’s No One Waits for the Train / Nadie espera el tren, translated in Spanish by Elisa Corona Aguilar, NYU’s Department of Music and Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 194 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012; April 18, 2025–
(xlv) Babylon Festival of International Cultures and Arts, 2025, participation by invitation, Baghdad & Babylon, Iraq, April 12-15, 2025
November 2024
(xliv) El seminario de Litertura Hispanoamericana (Grupo 503) de la Licenciatura en Traduccion de la ENALLT, Presentacion de Libro de Poemas Nadie espera el tren / No One Waits for the Train, con la participacion de Elisa Corona Aguilar, Traductora, y Waqas Khwaja, Autor (via remota), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, November 26, 2024;
September 2024
(xliii) 100 Thousand Poets for Change, dual-mode global poetry reading, in the Frannie Auditorium, Campbell Hall and via Zoom, September 28, 2024
August 2024
(xlii) Open Mic Poetry reading, The Book Bird at Avondale Estates, featured writer, with Franklin Abbott, August 22, 2024
The Book Bird Open Mic Poetry
July 2024
(xli) Reception hosted by Ambassador Zahoor Ahmad in Pakistan House, Madrid, Spain, July 4, 2024. Review by Pedro Gonzalez in “Atalyar”– https://www.atalayar.com/articulo/cultura/heridas-abiertas-particion-indo-paquistani/20240708124244202498.html
June 2024
Presentation/Launch of “Nadie espera a tren,” Spanish translation of “No One Waits for the Train” in a bilingual edition published by Editorial Juglar (Spanish translation by Elisa Corona Aguilar), June 21, 2024, Madrid–
March 2024
(xxxviii) LOS ANGELES REVIEW 2023 POETRY AWARD: WAQAS KHWAJA losangelesreview.org/lar-2023-poetry-award-waqas-khwaja/?fbclid=IwAR2Iomq0sSkf1X3vGSvZQFqJ0AZL7JYNpSEshnKjix6qawuO57fO6-AxHIs
xxxvii) Encuentro Literario, Lectura de poesia, Associacion Hermanos Saiz de Trinidad, Cuba, May 7, 2023
xxvi) Actividad de Cierre, Romerias de Mayo, Presentacion de los libro: Hold Your Breath, Casa de Iberoamerica, Holguin, Cuba, May 5, 2023
xxv) Café Literario, Presentacion de libro: Modern Poetry of Pakistan, UNEAC, Holguin, Cuba, May 4, 2023
xxxiv) Noche de Poesia, reading, La Isla En Versos, Casa de Iberoamerica, Holguin, Cuba, May 4, 2023
xxxiii) Inauguration, La Isla En Versos, poetry reading, Casa de Iberoamerica, Holguin, Cuba, May 3, 2023
xxxii) Romerias de Mayo, poetry reading, Joachim Osario Carralero Salon, Holguin, Cuba, May 3, 2023
xxxi) El Primer Verso, reading, La Isla En Versos, Associacion Hermanos Saiz de Ciego de Avila, Cuba, May 1, 2023
xxx) Globi Poetik, I Festivalit Nderkombetar te Poezise “Ditet-e-Naimit,” XXVI, poetry reading, Opening Ceremony, Qendra e Kultures, Tetova, Macedonia, Oct. 20, 2022
xxix) Poete Dhe Vargue, I Festivalit Nderkombetar te Poezise “Ditet-e-Naimit,” XXVI, poetry reading, Ne Qendren per Kulture dhe Art, Shift Center, Tetova, Macedonia, Oct. 21, 2022
xxviii) Meridianet e Poezise, I Festivalit Nderkombetar te Poezise “Ditet-e-Naimit,” XXVI, poetry reading, Ne salien e libraries, Altera, Prizren, Kosovo, Oct. 22, 2022
xxvii) Poetry reading, “A Pakistani, Indian, Irish Evening of Poetry, Music, and Song,” The Eblana Forum, Eblana Club, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland, June 4, 2022
xxvi) “Literary Preservation and Innovation: A Conversation with Professor Waqas Khwaja.” RawPods: Creative Thought and Expression (Poetry/Art/Philosophy). Moderator and Host: Muniba Mahmud. Rawanee (rawanee.com), UK. Sept. 11, 2022
xxv) Panel Discussion, “Joginder Paul: Narrating Partition,” Dr. Amrita Ghosh, Moderator; Panelists, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Dr. Chandana Dutta, and Waqas Khwaja, Swedish South Asian Studies Network, Lund University, Zoom event, Feb. 2, 2021
xxiv) Panel, “In Covid Times: What do you Read and Write?,” Muneeza Shamsie, Moderator; Panelists, Ahdaf Soueif, Ritu Menon, Haroon Khalid Akhtar, and Waqas Khwaja, Readings & Discussion, Oxford U Press, 7th Islamabad Literature Festival, online/Zoom, Oct. 27, 2020
xxiii) “Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806): Birthing Romanticism and Looking Beyond,” (paper), panel on Poetry and Narrative in the Age of Romanticism, MLA International Symposium, Remembering Lost Voices, Lisbon, Portugal, Universidade Católica, Portuguesa, July 23-25, 2019
xxii) Discussant for panel session Real and Imagined Indias, MLA International Symposium, Remembering Lost Voices, Lisbon, Portugal, Universidade Católica, Portuguesa, July 23-25, 2019
xxi) “Reimagining the Humanities” (paper), panel session titled Imaginaries, Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, U of Granada, Granada, Spain, July 3-5, 2019
xx) Introduction and Conversation with non-fiction writer Deborah Baker, The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire, Conference Center, Marriott, Sept. 1, 2018–https://www.decaturbookfestival.com/sessions/view/5b32926ccf212d3258df56b5
xix) Poetry Reading, Java Monkey, Decatur Book Festival, Sept. 1, 2018
xviii) Talk, followed by Q&A, Perspectives on Postcolonial Literature, Oriental College, Lahore, July 5, 2018
xvii) Talk on Postcolonial Approaches to Creative Writing, followed by Q&A, Education University, Lahore, May 31, 2018
xvi) Paper and Q&A, “Defending the Humanities in a Post-International, Post-Truth World,” Symposium: Whiter Humanities?, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, May 24, 2018
xv) Defending the Humanities: Making a Case for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Roundtable, The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 22-24, 2018
xiv) Presentation, poetry reading, book signing, “Poetry in a World of Fractured Realities,” Search for Meaning Festival, Seattle University, Seattle, February 24, 2018
xiii) Poetry Reading and book signing, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, to mark the publication of Hold Your Breath, Atlanta, GA, October 12, 2017;
xii) Keynote address, “The Pursuit of Literary Self-Expression in the Master’s Language: Issues of Political Autonomy and Socio-Cultural Sustainability,” International Conference on Critical Social Sciences and Humanities, International Islamic University, Islamabad, September 14, 2017;
xi) Lecture Presentation, followed by Q&A, “The American Civil Rights’ Movement and Probable Intersections with Strategies of Decolonization in Postcolonial Pakistan,” International Islamic University, Islamabad, September 13, 2017;
x) Poetry Writing: Workshop, International Islamic University, Islamabad, September 12, 2017;
ix) Poetry Reading, Java Monkey, Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA, September 2, 2017;
viii) Poetry Reading, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, poetry reading, Atlanta, GA, July 13, 2017;
vii) Writers and Scholars’ Series, Luchsinger Lounge, Alston Student Center, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, poetry reading and book signing to mark the publication of Hold Your Breath, April 25, 2017; [link]
vi) Book Launch, Hold Your Breath. Hosted by Sukhan Baraey Ama’n (Arts for Peace). Panel discussion, Dr. Munazza Yaqub, Harris Khalique, Ms Sadaf Raza, presided over by Mr. Iftikhar Arif, followed by poetry reading and book signing by Waqas Khwaja. Pakistan Academy for Letters, Islamabad. April 17, 2017; [press: Pakistan Affairs; Tulu News]
v) Book Launch of Hold Your Breath and Lecture on Postcolonial Theory, Critical Thinking Forum and Department of English, International Islamic University, Islamabad. April 17, 2017;
iv) Pakistan Television Corporation, PTV Classics Show. Tribute to Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, Waqas Khwaja in conversation with compere Shabnam Riaz. PTV, Islamabad. April 16, 2017; [link]
iii) Poetry Reading, English Poetry–Mixed Voices: Poets from Home and Abroad. Participants, Blaine Marchand, Waqas Khwaja, Harris Khalique, Azka Khan, Orooj e Zafar, Waqas Naeem, Mehvash Amin, and Risham Amjad. Moderator: Ilona Yusuf. Fifth Annual Islamabad Literature Festival, Sangam Hall, Hotel Margala, Islamabad. April 15, 2017;
ii) Book Launch, Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English by Muneeza Shamsie. Panelists, Navid Shahzad, Aroosa Kanwal, Muneeza Shamsie, and Waqas Khwaja. Moderator: Tariq Rahman. Fifth Annual Islamabad Literature Festival, Margalla Hall, Hotel Margala, Islamabad, April 15, 2017; [link]
i) Book Launch, Hold Your Breath, poems by Waqas Khwaja (Onslaught Press, UK, 2017). Moderator: Waqas Naeem, Fifth Annual Islamabad Literature Festival, Board Room, Hotel Margala, Islamabad, April 14, 2017;
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