This page lists upcoming dissertation workshops sponsored by AIPS. For previous workshops, please click on the year.
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) in collaboration with the HEC is pleased to invite proposals for a dissertation workshop for doctoral students in anthropology and sociology in Pakistan. The AIPS, established in 1973, is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to encourage and support research on issues relevant to Pakistan and the promotion of scholarly exchange between the United States and Pakistan. AIPS aims to facilitate scholarship within academe in Pakistan in various disciplines through the holding of dissertation workshops. This dissertation workshop is for doctoral students in anthropology and sociology at Pakistan-based universities, and will be run by the eminent anthropologist Dr. Kamran Ali, University of Texas-Austin, with the participation of Dr. Humeira Iqtidar, South Asia Center Fellow, Cambridge and faculty member at LUMS.
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Sponsored by the several organizations devoted to the study of South Asia, this workshop aims to help a select number of recent PhDs re-vision their doctoral dissertations as books. Applications to participate are due by June 15, 2010, emailed to Susan S. Wadley, sswadley@syr.edu. Participants must arrange their own transport to Madison, Wisconsin for the Annual Conference on South Asia in October. The workshop will begin at 7 pm Wednesday evening, Oct. 13, and all participants are expected to be present at this time. We may be able to help with hotel costs, but that is not guaranteed. We will pay for snacks and for dinner on Thurs. Lunch on Thurs. is on your own.
For selection: Required is an email containing a current cv; the dissertation abstract, its table of contents, and its first chapter plus a not more than 3 page double spaced vision of the "book". This could include (in the three pages) a new table of contents. Email to sswadley@syr.edu by midnight on June 15, 2010.
Senior Faculty Participants: Susan S. Wadley (Anthropology, Syracuse), Convener; (others tba). Our role is to read the materials prior to the meeting and be prepared to intervene and comment, "in the background" primarily with key interventions as needed.
Wednesday evening: 7-9pm Introductions plus discussion by one or two recent successful authors of the transformation process (Kalyani Menon and tba).
Thursday morning is divided into 8 half-hour segments for discussion of the projects (plus two 15 minute breaks). For each half-hour session, one participant will have been assigned to make a 5 minute presentation of someone else's project-preferably how that individual would revise the dissertation, and the key themes to be emphasized. During the remaining 25 minutes of that session, all of the other participants join in discussing the project -- except the project's author, who is not allowed to speak. The author of the project under discussion can only listen, take notes, even record, how their project is being understood, mis-understood, stretched, queried, and critiqued by knowledgeable peers with closely related interests, but working in varying theoretical perspectives, disciplines, time periods, etc.
On Thursday afternoon/evening, each participant is given a 40 minute time slot to respond to the more important queries, issues, and suggestions raised in the morning, and, most important, to seek feedback or further discussion of areas of their projects with which they recognize they are having difficulty.
We will take an hour break for dinner Thursday evening before continuing the final discussions after dinner.
Conversations can carry over into Friday and Saturday at the South Asia Conference!
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) in collaboration with the HEC is pleased to invite proposals for a dissertation workshop for doctoral and M. Phil. students in the social sciences who are focused on issues concerning women in Pakistan. The AIPS, established in 1973, is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to encourage and support research on issues relevant to Pakistan and the promotion of scholarly exchange between the United States and Pakistan. AIPS aims to facilitate scholarship within academe in Pakistan in various disciplines through the holding of dissertation workshops. This dissertation workshop is for doctoral students in any of the social sciences whose research is focused on women in Pakistan, and will be run by the eminent sociologist, Anita M. Weiss, University of Oregon, with the participation of renowned Pakistani social science scholar and researcher Dr. Saba Gul Khattak (Ph.D., political science, University of Hawaii).
Click here for more information and application instructions.
Click here for more information and application instructions.