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. Esha Niyogi De has published a new, single-authored monograph, Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia, available on University of Illinois Press' website.
Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
A new honors course titled "Psychology and AI: Where AI dances with Psychology" has been proposed by Dr. Sadaf Sajjad at Austin Community College. This groundbreaking course in psychological studies provides a foundational understanding of human behavior and mental processes, integrating the study of psychology and its influence on AI. Set to be taught for the first time starting in Spring 2025, this innovative course has been reviewed and accepted by the Honors Committee at Austin Community College.
Mehtabidah Ali's research paper was published in the International Journal of Heliyon. In the study, Ali utilized NASA Satellite Data to predict the behavior of surging glaciers in the HKH ranges of Northern Pakistan and analyzed the risks with glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
Rizwan Ali Shinwari has joined a postdoctoral position in a joint project by the University of Bradfor, UK and Riphah University, Pakistan. The two-year long project will focus on the protection of children in the Pakistani community and will particularly focus on the rising trend in child sexual abuse cases. The project aims to conduct evidence-based research to reach at the core of the social issue.
After a forced hiatus of two years due to the pandemic THAAP has decided to hold the 11th International THAAP Conference - 2022, in November 2022 on the following theme: Archaeology and Living Cultural Legacy of Harappa Civilization. Read the full Call for Proposals here.
AIPS and the Suhail Zaheer Lari Memorial Fellowship Fund support scholars to conduct research on Sindh through our Fellowships and Short-Term Research Grants. The recipients should be pre-doctoral or post-doctoral scholars of South Asia and members of AIPS. Interested individuals can apply for this opportunity through an AIPS Fellowship (before 2/1/22) or AIPS Short-Term Research Grant (before 2/15/22).
Book submissions are due to AIPS on Monday, January 10. Still interested in submitting your recently published book for consideration? See the AIPS Book Prize page and fill out our submission form to confirm your eligibility today.
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies is excited to announce the AIPS Resource Library (ARL), a new effort we've been working on to consolidate Pakistan-related, open-access publications and materials on one central site. Our ARL currently houses over 100 publications and is continuing to grow. To navigate the library, click on "Browse Resources," where all entries can be sorted by topic and subdiscipline, as while as by region, if applicable.