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.
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2023 Conferences
Annual Conference on South Asia
AIPS funded the travel of several scholars in Pakistan to participate in panels at the 2023 Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, WI
Dates: October 18 - 21, 2023
- Kaleemullah Lashari, Directorate of Archaeology, Govt. of Sindh
Title of Paper: Conservation of Historical Monuments in Pakistan: Example of the Portuguese and Omani Period in Gwadar
Panel Title: Archaeological and Historical Cultural Heritage Documentation and Preservation in South Asia: Foundational Practices and Innovative Solutions
- Ghazal Asif Farrukhi, LUMS
Title of Paper: Three Women from Elias' Khwabnama
Panel Title: Ilyas' Khwabnama, the Coming Community, and the Missing Peasant
- Zahra Sabri, IBA-Karachi
Title of Paper: How important were madāris really in producing the best ‘ulama? A view from studies of South Asia, c. 1100-1800 AD
Panel Title: Evolving History, Evolving Functions: The Madrasah In South Asia
Architecture, Urban Design, and Environmental Activism in Contemporary Pakistan
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi
Karachi, Pakistan
May 12-13, 2023
The Architecture, Urban Design and Environmental Activism in Contemporary Pakistan workshop was held at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, on May 12-13, 2023. Organized by Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell), Farhan Karim (U of Kansas), and Faiza Mushtaq (IVS), the workshop brought together scholars and environmental designers based in Pakistan (architects, urban planners, landscape designers, urban researchers & design educators) who are exploring diverse models of research, practice, and pedagogy to address land rights and climate related insecurity in Pakistan. There were 15 presentations spread over 2 days.