The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a bi-national research and education organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan.
Dr. Anita Weiss will be participating in University of Oregon Webinar on Monday, May 3rd at 4:00PM (PST) to discuss her recently published book, "Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices." Find more information here
Dr. SherAli Tareen participated in an online symposium on his book "Defending Muhammad in Modernity" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) that was hosted by the Contending Modernities forum at the University of Notre Dame. The event featured essays by Jonathan Brown, Faisal Devji, Zunaira Komal, Waris Mazhari, Ammar Nasir, and Sohaira Siddiqui, and one from Dr. Tareen which can be read here.
Professors Fran Smulcheski and Habbat Kibzai were awarded a travel grant from the State University of New York to conduct research in Pakistan for their collaborative project "Silent Voices Echo: Children at work". Their project researches and photographically documents, artistically, economically, and socially the complexities of child labor in Pakistan especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr. Amber Abbas published a new book, "Partition’s First Generation: Space, Place and Identity in Muslim South Asia" with Bloomsbury New York. The book is based on oral history research Dr. Abbas conducted in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh and includes substantial discussion of the experiences of Aligarh graduates (Aligarh Old Boys) in all three post- partition states.
Prof. Ted Wright passed away on January 12, 2021. He was a leading scholar on South Asian Muslims and conducted research in both Pakistan and India. Dr. Wright was a Fulbright Senior Research Professor in Pakistan from 1983-84, and he was an AIPS trustee from 1973-82. To read more about Dr. Wright's legacy, please see his obituary.
The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is now accepting applications for its Summer 2021 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. This program provides daily classroom instruction along with regular assignments outside of class. Tentative dates for the Summer 2021 program are June 3 through August 11, 2021.
Edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury (UMass, Boston) and Esha Niyogi De (UCLA), South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters excavates complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia.
This volume of scholarly essays began with a collaborative workshop at LUMS, Lahore, funded by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.
AIPS is excited to announce the election of Dr. Matthew A. Cook of North Carolina Central University as the next AIPS President! Matt has been an active member or board member of AIPS for almost 20 years and has received several grants and funding programs to advance the field of Pakistan studies both in the U.S. and abroad.
The last session for the CSS Exam Series has been rescheduled for Thursday, September 3 at 8PM Pakistan Time (10AM CST). There will be no session on Sunday, August 30. Dr. Andre Audette will be joining us again to discuss the U.S. Presidential Election!