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 has had a very accomplished year! We are excited to share with you the Spring 2014 AIPS Newsletter. Read stories from past AIPS Fellows, learn about upcoming opportunities, and gain insight on all the other achievements AIPS has added in the last year.
Zahid Hussain will be lecturing April of 2014 at Sarah Lawrence College, Monmouth College and the University of Texas at Austin. Hussain is a senior editor for Newsline Magazine, columnist for Dawn and correspondent for newspapers such as The Times of London, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal. The Economist is also the sponsored Pakistan Lecture Series speaker for 2013-14.
Title: Contextualizing Pakistan: From Within and Without Date: April 4-5, 2014
A joint North Carolina Central University-North Carolina State University conference, co-sponsored by AIPS, was organized to highlight the continued importance of key issues in the research of social sciences and humanities in Pakistan. This two-day conference is to crystallize new directions in the study of the country. It will examine how interconnections between local, regional, national and global forms of identity—both within and outside of South Asia—impact what it means to be “Pakistani.” The conference will also explore questions concerning how these interconnections can shape the humanistic and social scientific study of Pakistan in the 21st century.
Monmouth College has organized a two-day conference on Pakistan to take full advantage of speaker Zahid Hussain’s visit! This interdisciplinary conference will have presentations on contemporary political and social issues, as well as music performances and a presentation on film and literature in Pakistan.