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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Lahore Biennale 01 Reader
Submitted Friday, May 26th, 2023
Dr. Dadi has curated and edited the Lahore Biennale 01 Reader, a compilation of scholarly essays that weaves together cultural politics and the art scene of the entire global South. The book draws upon a series of conferences from 2018. In March of that year, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies sponsored several scholars to travel to Lahore, Pakistan to host a series of workshops as part of the inaugural Lahore Biennale; a two-week, community-centered initiative that sought to foster Lahore’s rich art and culture scene. Dr. Iftikhar Dadi, AIPS Vice-President, along with three other US scholars hosted a three-part workshop series that helped address the gaps in the Pakistani art scene the need for further development of artistic communities and practitioners. The scholars also hosted or directly participated in 12 lectures and outreach events that spanned a variety of topics ranging from the interplay of art and cross-border conflict to the role of urban architecture across the South Asia region.
The Lahore Biennale 01 Reader was recently published by Skira Publishing and is available for purchase now: https://www.skira.net/en/books/lahore-biennale-01.
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