AIPS Emerging Scholars Symposium

October 20, 2022 (1:45pm-5:30pm)
Madison Concourse Hotel
Funded by a grant from CAORC

AIPS hosted its Emerging Scholars Symposium on October 20, 2023. This conference showcased the new research being done by junior scholars (both PhDs and graduate students with ABD status) in the field of Pakistan Studies in United States. The conference concluded with a reception hosted by AIPS.

Six conference participants were selected through a competitive process:

Hasan Hameed, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
Paper Title: Arguing Pakistan in late colonial India: The Political Thought of Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (Abstract)

Elliot Montpellier, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: ‘Digital Pakistan’: dramas, data analytics and the remaking of a culture industry (Abstract)

Sidra Kamran, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research
Paper Title: From “New Womanhood” to “New Working Class": Gender and Class Ambiguity in Pakistan's New Service Economy (Abstract)

Sanaullah Khan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Paper Title: Militarizing the Psyche: Incarceration and the Ontologies of Illness (Abstract)

Naila Sahar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Buffalo
Paper Title: Postcolonial feminism: Women's digital activism in South Asia with focus on Pakistan (Abstract)

Sameera Abbas, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Buffalo
Paper Title: Pakistani Women’s Labor at the Crossroads of Patriarchy and Colonial Capitalism: A Historical perspective (Abstract)

October 11, 2018 (8:25am-3:15pm)
Parlour Room 638, Madison Concurse Hotel
with an all symposium reception to follow in Madison Ballroom (6:00-7:30pm)
Funded by a grant from CAORC

AIPS hosted its third Junior Scholars Conference on October 11, 2018. This conference showcased the new research being done by junior scholars (both PhDs and graduate students with ABD status) in the field of Pakistan Studies in United States. The conference concluded with a reception hosted by AIPS.

Eight conference participants were selected through a competitive process:
(Paper titles and abstracts subject to change)

Ahsan Kamal, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paper Title: Saving Sindhu: River Defense Movements Along the Indus River in Pakistan (Abstract)

Amna Qayyum, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University 
Paper Title: Co-operatives and Contraceptives: Family Planning and Theories of Rural Development in Comilla, East Pakistan (Abstract)

Sohaib Baig, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California-Los Angeles
Paper Title: What Makes a Hanafi? The Juristic Boundaries of the Hanafi School of Law across Thatta and Medina in the 18th Century (Abstract)

Michelle Grisé, Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Paper Title: Inside the Nuclear Labyrinth: Understanding the Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Development in Pakistan, 1972-1998 (Abstract)

Mashail Malik, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, Stanford University 
Paper Title: Political Violence and Ethnocentric Trust in Multiethnic Megacities: The Case of Karachi (Abstract)

Neelum Sohail, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Tufts University
Paper Title: Lord of the District and Next to God: Policing and Governance in the Punjab (Abstract)

Shehram Mokhtar, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Paper Title: Gender & Sexuality of the Other: Under the Gaze of Transnational Documentary (Abstract)

Ghazal Asif, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Paper Title: Women's Work: Ethnography of a Pakistani Vocational Center (Abstract)

October 20, 2016 (10:00am -5:30pm)
Conference Room 5, Madison Concourse Hotel
with a reception to follow in Senate A/B (5:30 - 6:30pm)
Funded by a grant from CAORC

AIPS is hosted its second Junior Scholars Conference on October 20, 2016. This conference showcased the new research being done by junior scholars (both PhDs and graduate students with ABD status) in the field of Pakistan Studies in United States. The conference concluded with a reception hosted by AIPS. 

Seven conference participants were selected through a competitive process
Paper titles and abstracts subject to change

Mashal Saif, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Clemson University
Paper Title: Sovereignty between God and the State: Insulting Muhammad in Contemporary Pakistan (Abstract)

Sahar Khan, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of California - Irvine
Paper Title: Ontological Security: Explaining Continued State-sponsorship of Militancy in Pakistan (Abstract)

Shayan Rajani, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Tufts University
Paper Title: Obstructing Geography: Resisting British Interventionism in Early Nineteenth Century Sindh (Abstract)

Faiza Moatasim, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hamilton College
Paper Title: Negotiating Nonconformity: The Politics of Encroachment in the Planned Modern City of Islamabad (Abstract)

Maira Hayat, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Paper Title: Big Companies, Small Bureaucrats: Water and Governance in Pakistan (Abstract)

Abida Bano, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University
Paper Title: Women's Representation in Local Democracy: Formal and Informal Institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Abstract)

Saad Gulzar, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, New York University
Paper Title: Why Do Citizens Become Politicians? Experimental Evidence on Candidacy (Abstract)

October 22, 2015 (8:30 am - 5:30pm)
Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
with a reception to follow in Pyle Center Lee Lounge (5:30 - 6:30 pm)
Funded by a grant from CAORC

AIPS is hosted its first Junior Scholars Conference on October 22, 2015. This conference showcased the new research being done by junior scholars (both recent PhDs and graduate students with ABD status) in the field of Pakistan Studies in the United States. The conference was open to the public and concluded with a joint reception co-hosted by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies for its Conference on Bengali Mangalakāvya and Related Literature, which was held on the same day.

Ten conference participants were selected through a competitive process.
Paper titles and abstracts subject to change.

Majed Akhter, Assistant Professor of Geography, Indiana University - Bloomington
Paper Title: The long hydraulic partition: Producing national space in the Indus Basin (Abstract)

Andrew Amstutz, PhD candidate in History, Cornell University
Paper Title: Urdu in Karachi before Pakistan: Language Politics & Indian Ocean Commercial Connections, 1914-1946 (Abstract)

Yelena Biberman, Assistant Professor, Government Department, Skidmore College 
Paper Title: How We Know What We Know about Pakistan: New York Times News Production, 1954-1971 (Abstract)

Elizabeth Bolton, PhD Candidate in Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin
Paper Title: Khabarnak: Satirizing Current Affairs Television in Pakistan (Abstract)

Waqas H. Butt, PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Paper Title: Waste and Its Infrastructures: Networks of Work in Contemporary Lahore (Abstract)

Abdul Haque Chang, PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Paper Title: Different Histories and Geographies of the Indus Delta  (Abstract)

Mariam Durrani, PhD candidate in Educational Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: Desi/Brown as Mediatized Muslim Youth Personae: The Online and Offline Lives of Transnational Pakistanis (Abstract)

Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Postdoctoral Fellow in History, University of Texas at Austin
Paper Title: Awaz de Kahan: Nur Jehan's Radio Voice and the Making and Unmaking of Borders (Abstract)

Faris Ahmed Khan, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University
Paper Title: Contextualizing Khwaja Sira Rights: Toward a History of the Pakistani State's Gender and Sexuality Politics (Abstract)

Farhan Navid Yousaf, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Connecticut
Paper Title: Women's Trafficking in Pakistan: Intersecting Vulnerabilities and Repeated Exploitation (Abstract)