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.
AIPS is excited to announce the Short-Term Research Grantees and Fellowship Recipients for 2024. Congratulations to Shafaq Sohail, Faria Shaikh, Aqib Ali, Noormah Rizwan, Shuyan (Michael) Huang, Asif Mehmood, Muhammad Rizvan Saeed, Ilsa Abdul Razzak, and Muhammad Osama Imran for receiving Short-Term Research Grants and congratulations to Adeem Suhail, Ilqua Lutfi, Asif Sandeelo, Kamini Masood, Shandana Waheed, and Syed Haider Shahbaz for receiving Fellowships!
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Usman Qasmi (Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences) for receiving the 2024 AIPS Book Prize for his book Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan! The committee found this book to be “a significant and original contribution to Pakistan Studies and South Asia Studies, and to the study of nationality, citizenship, and state formation.
The first articles of Critical Pakistan Studies are now available! There are currently 8 articles that are publicly available via "FirstView" on Cambridge University Press's website.
Critical Pakistan Studies is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes primary source interpretive research that, in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis, analyzes, discusses, and seeks to understand the varied and multi-layered contexts that constitute Pakistan and its people.
Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in Urdu Guest Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Fatima Z. Naveed
We invite scholars and translators of Popular Urdu literature and art—broadly defined as texts intended to be read by mass audiences—to contribute to a special issue, “Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in Urdu.”
Congratulations to the following AIPS members who were recently elected as Individual Member Trustees on the AIPS Board of Trustees:
Dr. Hassan Abbas (National Defense University) Dr. Dean Accardi (Connecticut College) Dr. Natasha Raheja (Cornell University) Dr. Raisur Rahman (Wake Forest University)
These Trustees represent AIPS Individual Members on the BOT. Thanks to all for your willingness to serve!