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).
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CAORC Funded
*Funding provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State through a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
Nadia Loan
Affiliated Institution: University of Oregon
Conference Name: AAS-In-Asia Conference 2016 on "Aisa in Motion: "Horizons of Hope"
Conference Date: June 24-June 27, 2016
Title of Paper: The Quran Workbook: Materiality and Devotion in Contemporary Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Sanaa Riaz
Affiliated Institution: Metropolitan State University of Denver
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
Conference Date: March 31 - April 3, 2016
Title of Paper: Alternative Subjectivities in Islamic Schooling: The Case of Urban Pakistani Parochial Schools
Paper Abstract Final Report
Sohaib Kahn
Affiliated Institution: Columbia University
Conference Name: 114th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Conference Date: November 18 - 22, 2015
Title of Paper: Spending an Islamic Livelihood: The Calculative Rationality of Virtue Ethics
Paper Abstract Final Report
C. Christine Fair
Affiliated Institution: Georgetown University
Conference Name: International Studies Association's 57th Annual Convention
Conference Dates: March 15-19, 2016
Title of Paper: The Domestic Politics of Jihad in Pakistan: The Case of Lashkar-e-Taiba
Paper Abstract Final Report
Carla Petievich
Affiliated Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies
Conference Dates: March 30-April 3, 2016
Title of Paper: From Court to Public Sphere: How Urdu Poetry's Language of Romance Shapes the Language of Protest
Paper Abstract Final Report
Sylvia Vatuk
Affiliated Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference Name: Law and Governance in Gilgit Baltistan (Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies)
Conference Dates: April 27-29, 2016
Title of Paper: Inheritance and Governance in Muslim South Asia
Paper Abstract Final Report
Alexis M. Saba
Affiliated Institution: Indiana University
Conference Name: Comparative and International Education Society
Conference Dates: March 6-10, 2016
Title of Paper: Translating and Approaching the Right to Education in Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Karen Greenwalt
Affiliated Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference Name: Vitriol: Art and Its Discontents
Conference Date: March 11, 2016
Title of Paper: Beyond the Nation: Rasheed Araeen and the Art of Migration
Paper Abstract Final Report
Randall Law
Affiliated Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference Name: 23rd Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archeaology and Art
Conference Date: July 4-8, 2016
Title of Paper: The Art of the Harappan Microbead - Revisited
Paper Abstract Final Report
Elizabeth Bolton
Affilitated Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Conference Dates: March 30-April 3, 2016
Title of Paper: The Clamor of Reticence: Producing News Television in Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
John Mock
Affiliated Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Conference Name: Law and Governance in Gilgit-Baltistan
Conference Dates: April 26-29, 2016
Title of Paper: Language and Governance in Gilgit-Baltistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Uzma Rizvi
Affiliated Institution: Pratt Institute of Arts and Design
Conference Name: World Archaeological Congress
Conference Dates: August 28 - September 3, 2016
Title of Paper: Intimate Landscapes: Sand
Paper Abstract Final Report
Funded by AIPS Unrestricted Funds
Maria-Magdalena Fuchs
Affiliated Institution: Princeton University
Conference Name: the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Paper: Between Mosque, School, and Printing House: Muslim Associations in Colonial Punjab
Paper Abstract Final Report
Amna Qayyum
Affiliated Institution: Princeton University
Conference Name: Assocation of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
Conference Date: March 31 - April 4, 2016
Title of Paper: Edges of Authority: States and Their Absences Along South Asia's Inland Frontiers
Paper Abstract Final Report
Naila Sahar
Affiliated Institution: State University of New York - Buffalo
Conference Name: 25th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
Conference Date: April 26-27, 2016
Title of Paper: Syncretic Language: an Archive of History and Experience in a Postcolonial World
Paper Abstract Final Report
Saad Gulzar
Affiliated Institution: New York University
Conference Name: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Conference Date: September 1-4, 2016
Title of Paper: Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Candidacy and Performance
Paper Abstract Final Report
US Embassy Funded
(US to Pakistan)
Richard Barnett
Affiliated Institution: University of Virginia
Conference Name: 25th International Pakistan History Conference
Conference Date: January 19-21, 2016
Title of Paper: Pakistan's History in Context and Focus
Paper Abstract Final Report
Hassan Abbas
Affiliated Institution: National Defense University
Conference Name: State, Society and Democracy in the Postcolony Conference
Conference Date: August 4-6, 2016
Title of Paper: Sectarianism & Internal Security: How the State-Society Nexus Was Reconfigured in the post Zia Era?
Paper Abstract
Joel Gordon
Affiliated Institution: University of Arkansas
Conference Name: Cinema and Transnationalism in Pakistan and South Asia
Conference Date: September 1-2, 2016
Title of Paper: Movie Stars without Borders: Fashioning National Identity in Regional Studios/Regional Identity in National Studios
Paper Abstract Final Report
Christopher Candland
Affiliated Institution: Wellesley College
Conference Name: Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Change in Pakistan - Afghanistan Borderland
Conference Date: August 29 - 31, 2016
Title of Paper: The Purpose of Government, Manufacture of Legitimacy, and Violence of the State: Reflections on Conflict Transformation in Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
(Pakistan to US)
Saeed Shafqat
Affiliated Institution: Forman Christian College University
Conference Name: Academic Engagements at Wake Forest University, and 'the triangle', North Carolina
Conference Date: August 7-11, 2016
Title of Paper: Perceptions, Realities, and the Changing Dynamics of US-Pakistan Relations
Final Report