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).
Roanne Kantor
Affiliated Institution: University of Texas-Austin
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2014
Title of Paper: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and the Safarnama-e Cuba
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Robert Nichols
Affiliated Institution: Stockton University
Conference Name: Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Historical Foundations of Afghanistan Studies: Reframing Colonial Knowledge of the Indo-Persian World in the Post-Colonial Era
Conference Date: November 6-7, 2015
Title of Paper: The Limits of Empire: Reevaluating Charles Metcalfe's Mission to Lahore (August 1808-May1809)
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Uzma Z. Rizvi
Affiliated Institution: Pratt Institute of Art and Design
Conference Name: The 80th Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
Conference Date: April 15-19, 2015
Title of Paper: Harappan Urbanites: Standardization, Ratios and Subjectivity
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Brian Bond
Affiliated Institution: City University of New York - The Graduate Center
Conference Name: Society for Ethnomusicology Conference 2015
Conference Date: December 3-6, 2015
Title of Paper: Where Melody Meets Poetry: the Sur Repertoire of Sindh's Shāh ʿAbdul Latīf Bhiṭāī
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Dean Accardi
Affiliated Institution: Connecticut College
Conference Name: 44th Annual Conference on South Asia; Sanskrit in Persianate India Preconference to the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Papers: Ascetic Discourses and Trans-Religious Community Formation in Early Modern Kashmir; A Pakistani Hero in Sanskrit Sources: Ali Hamadani and Body Politics
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Brian Spooner
Affiliated Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Conference Name: Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Historical Foundations of Afghanistan Studies: Reframing Colonial Knowledge of the Indo-Persian World in the Post-Colonial Era
Conference Date: November 6-7, 2015
Title of Paper: A New Look at the North West Frontier
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Marta Ameri
Affiliated Institution: Colby College
Conference Name: 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Paper: A Question of Semantics? Iconographic Variability in the Image-Symbols of the Harappan World
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Tariq L. Rahman
Affiliated Institution: University of Oregon
Conference Name: 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Paper: Privatizing the Developmental State: Housing, Development, and Power in the Pakistani State's Margins
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Elizabeth Lhost
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Conference Name: 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Paper: Vakīl, Mukhtār, Hājī: Patronage, exchange, and the microeconomics of the Hajj, c. 1880-1940
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Christopher Clary
Affiliated Institution: Brown University
Conference Name: 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Paper: The Difficult Politics of Peace and the India-Pakistan Rivalry
Paper Abstract Final Report
Funded by Unrestricted AIPS funds
SherAli Tareen
Affiliated Institution: Franklin and Marshal College
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2014
Title of Paper: Evolutionary Hermeneutics: Narratives of Emancipation in Muslim Colonial India
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Tehila Sasson
Affiliated Institution: University of California-Berkeley
Conference Name: The 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Conference Date: January 7-10, 2016
Title of Paper: Expertise on the Move: British Aid to Pakistan and the Emergence of Disaster Relief
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Sarah Ahmed
Affiliated Institution: University of Oregon
Conference Name: 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 22-25, 2015
Title of Paper: Women and the Jirga System in Rural Punjab
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US Embassy 2 Funded
(US to Pakistan)
Anita Weiss
Affiliated Institution: University of Oregon
Conference Name: Pathways to Sustainable Development - SDPI's 17th Annual Conference
Conference Date: December 9-11, 2014
Title of Paper: Local Resilience in Swat: Ongoing Efforts to Overcome Crises and Human Rights Abuses.
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Ulka Anjaria
Affiliated Institution: Brandeis University
Conference Name: Culture, Art and Architecture of the Marginalized and the Poor
Conference Date: November 7-10, 2014
Title of Paper: Realism and Resistance in South Asian Literature
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Muhammad Umar Memon
Affiliated Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference Name: 2-Week Campus visit for lectures and consultation
Conference Date: November 10-25, 2014
Title of Paper: Translation and Its Warts; The Art of Fiction
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Golam Mathbor
Affiliated Institution: Monmouth University
Conference Name: Akhter Hameed Khan Memorial Lecture 2014
Conference Date: October 27-31, 2014
Title of Paper: Factors Enhancing and Inhibiting the Effectiveness of Community Participation in Development Initiatives
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Bandana Purkayastha
Affiliated Institution: University of Connecticut
Conference Name: (a) Conference on Child Rights (b) Lecture on Ethnicity
Conference Date: November 19-25, 2014
Title of Paper: (a) Theoretical Approaches to Child Rights (b) Lecture on Ethnicity
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Elena Bashir
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Conference Name: International Conference on Brahui Language & Culture
Conference Date: January 17-18, 2015
Title of Paper: The Brahui Language: Recovering the Past, Documenting the Present, and Projecting the Future
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Matthew Cook
Affiliated Institution: North Carolina Central University
Conference Name: Locally Sourced: Recovering the Local in History, Culture, and Politics in Pakistan
Conference Date: August 7-8, 2015
Title of Paper: How to Fix a Script: British Colonialism and the Sindhi Writing System
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David Gilmartin
Affiliated Institution: North Carolina State University
Conference Name: Locally Sourced: Recovering the Local in History, Culture, and Politics in Pakistan
Conference Date: August 7-8, 2015
Title of Paper: Imagining the Local in Pakistan
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Will Glover
Affiliated Institution: University of Michigan
Conference Name: Two-day workshop run with junior faculty members at LSE and some of their advanced grad students on writing urban histories in South Asia
Conference Date: December 15-16, 2014
Title of Paper: Untitled Workshop
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Sean Pue
Affiliated Institution: Michigan State University
Conference Name: Karachi Literacy Festival
Conference Date: February 7-8, 2015
Title of Paper: I Too Have Some Dreams discussion; Digital Humanities and Urdu Studies
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Hasan-Uddin Khan
Affiliated Institution: Roger Williams University
Conference Name: Advisor to COMSAT
Conference Date: January 2015
Final Report
Charles Kennedy
Affiliated Institution: Wake Forest University
Conference Name: Ethno Federalism in Punjab and Beyond
Conference Date: April 13-14, 2015
Title of Paper: Conflict and Policies of Ethnic Federalism in Pakistan
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Christopher Candland
Affiliated Institution: Wellesly College
Conference Name: Pakistan Higher Education Commission and University of Peshawar International Conference on State and Society of Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities
Conference Date: May 13-14, 2015
Title of Paper: The Place of Emotions in Social Science Research
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David Rezvani
Affiliated Institution: Dartmouth College
Conference Name: Ethno Federalism in Punjab and Beyond
Conference Date: April 13-14, 2015
Title of Paper: Examining Autonomy Options in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Baluchistan: Federalism, Full Independence or Partial Independence?
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Sorayya Khan
Affiliated Institution: Ithaca College
Conference Name: The 3rd Islamabad Literature Festival and lectures on her novels at Habib University
Conference Date: April 25-26, 2015
Title of Paper: Book Launch, "City of Spies: A Novel
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Cara Cilano
Affiliated Institution: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Conference Name: Locally Sourced: Recovering the Local in History, Culture, and Politics in Pakistan
Conference Date: August 7-8, 2015
Title of Paper: The 'Literary Local' in Pakistan: The Role of Representation and Interactive Media in the Formation of Identities
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Mehr Afshan Farooqi
Affiliated Institution: University of Virginia
Conference Name: (1) Faiz Peace Festival and (2) Literary Week at the LUMS Gurmani Center for Languages and Literature
Conference Date: November 20-27, 2015
Title of Paper: (1) The Uncreated Garden: A Textual History of Ghalib’s Urdu Poetry and (2) co-leading a workshop on Urdu literature and delivering 2-3 lectures
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(Pakistan to US)
Ashraf Khan
Affiliated Institution: Taxila Institute of Asian Civillizations-Quaid-i-Azam University
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2014
Asma Ibrahim
Affiliated Institution: Museum and Art Gallery- State Bank of Pakistan
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2014
Bilal Tanweer
Affiliated Institution: Lahore University of Management Sciences
Conference Name: Various conferences
Conference Date: October 2014
Final Report
Kaleemullah Lashari
Affiliated Institution: Management Board of Antiquities-Government of Sindh
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia Conference
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2014
Ghani-ur Rahman
Affiliated Institution: Taxila Institute of Asian Civillizations-Quaid-i-Azam University
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2014
Final Report
Hafeez Ahmed Jamali
Affiliated Institution: Department of Culture-Government of Balochistan
Conference Name: Invited Talk, Georgetown University
Conference Date: December 3-6, 2014
Paper Title: A Tempest in the Harbor: Megaprojects, Fishermen’s Movement, and the Necropolitics of National Identity in Gwader, Pakistan
Akmal Hussain
Affiliated Institution: Forman Christian College
Conference Name: Environmental Cooperation across South Asia’s Borders hosted by the University of Texas at Austin
Conference Date: May 5-7, 2015
Paper Title: Climate Change and the Imperative of Cooperation in South Asia
Final Report
Dr. Imam Uddin
Affiliated Institution: DHA Suffa University
Conference Name: Florida International University’s Department of Religious Studies biannual Islamic Civilization Series and a lecture at the FIU Department of Religious Studies
Conference Date: March 30 - April 6, 2015
Paper Title: (1) Islam and Human Rights: A Pakistani Perspective, (2) Banking & Finance in Praxis, Pakistan as Case-Study
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Livia Holden
Affiliated Institution: Karakoram International University
Conference Name: (a) Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Seattle (b) Two additional invited scholarly presentations during her stay in this country- one at the University of Washington and the other at the University of Oregon.
Conference Date: May 26, May 28, and June 2, 2015
Title of Paper: (1) Contemporary Manifestations of Islamic Divorce in the Global South: Understanding Khul in Diverse Cultural Contexts, (2) Divorce at the Women’s Initiative in Pakistan and Diasporas and (3) Lady Judges of Pakistan film screening
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Haris Gazdar
Affiliated Institution: Collective of Social Science Research
Conference Name: University of Michigan and AIPS Collaborative Workshop on the Future of Pakistan Studies
Conference Date: April 4, 2015
Paper Title: Urban Studies Panel/Engaging Disciplines: Rewards and Challenges in Researching the City
Final Report
Framji Minwalla
Affiliated Institution: Institute of Business Administation-Karachi
Conference Name: University of Michigan and AIPS Collaborative Workshop on the Future of Pakistan Studies
Conference Date: April 4, 2015
Paper Title: Ruptures, Continuities, and the Struggle for Relevance in Recent Pakistani Performance
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Rabia Nadir
Affiliated Institution: Lahore School of Economics
Conference Name: University of Michigan and AIPS Collaborative Workshop on the Future of Pakistan Studies
Conference Date: April 4, 2015
Paper Title: From Walled City to Small City: Interrogating Development and Growth
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Syed Nomanul Haq
Affiliated Institution: Institute of Business Administration
Conference Name: (1) Deliver a lecture at Michigan State University, (2) Provide recordings for Urdu literary pedagogical materials and (3) Participate in a panel at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 20-25, 2015
Paper Title: (1) Image of the Divine in Sindhi Folk Tales and Sufi Poetry (3) This is the cage of my heart! – The Self-Recoiling Ontology of Majeed Amjad
Ali Usman Qasmi
Affiliated Institution: Lahore University of Management Sciences
Conference Name: The Postcolonial Moment, Princeton University
Conference Date: November 13-14, 2015
Final Report
Altaf Qadir
Affiliated Institution: University of Peshawar
Conference Name: Deliver lectures at Richard Stockton College based on his new book about Sayyid Ahmad Barailvi, published by Sage
Conference Date: September 2015
Final Report
Imran Ahmed Khan
Affiliated Institution: Geological Survey of Pakistan
Conference Name: Lectures at the University of Texas at Austin
Conference Date: February 2016
Paper Titles:1) Mineral Resources of Pakistan: Prospects and Challenges, 2) Impacts of Climate Change in South East Asia: Need for Paradigm Shift in Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies, 3) Role Functions and Achievements of Geological Survey of Pakistan, 4) Status of Geospatial Mapping in Pakistan