A two-day workshop sponsored by the American Institute of Paksitan Studies and the Pakistan Institue of Development Economics

August 7-8, 2015 at PIDE, Quaid-i-Azam University

Conference Organizers:
Matthew Cook, North Carolina Central University
David Gilmartin, North Carolina State Univeristy
Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Matthew A. Cook (North Carolina Central University), David Gilmartin (North Carolina State University) and Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics) co-organized a workshop in Islamabad in the summer of 2015.  With support from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, a major aim of the workshop is to identify and describe local histories, cultures and politics, and to probe their importance for understanding modern and contemporary Pakistan.  The workshop is based on the assumption that greater attention to the local will significantly enrich recent Pakistani history. It is also based on the fact that there is a large storehouse of local knowledge and sources that has often been bypassed in the search for Pakistan’s larger and centralized national narratives. In addition to the workshop’s three organizers, Nida Kirmani (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Nukhbah Langah (Forman Christian College University), Aqsa Ijaz (Government College University, Lahore), Hafeez Jamali (Balochistan State Archives), Ahmed Azhar (Lahore School of Economics) and Cara Cilano (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) plan to give presentations.  The workshop will also integrate junior scholars in Pakistan, who are writing and/or who recently completed a dissertation, as panel discussants.

View the final workshop program

(Photo: University of California Press)

AIPS is pleased to announce the publication of a new book about the Indus River Basin by AIPS Trustee Dr. David GIlmartin (North Carolina State University).

Link to more information here.

AIPS is pleased to announce the publication of a new book in translation by member Professor Emeritus Dr. Muhammad Umar Memon (University of Wisconsin-Madison):

Link for more information here.

This workshop, titled " Imaginging a Future of Pakistan Archaeology: Teaching Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, Community Based Practices, and Cultural Heritage Management," is the 3^rd workshop in a three-part series on “Teaching Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management” that has been organized by Professor J. Mark Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Themes in this workshop include:
– teaching about politics and the past
– teaching about archaeology and the public
– teaching about art, community development and social change
– teaching world archaeology and global heritage.

This workshop is designed for the participants to have in depth discussions about the topics as well as pedagogical best practices for how to facilitate such discussions in their own classrooms. As the final workshop in the series, participants will also synthesize the teaching principles and practices that they have learned over the course of the three workshop series.

The AIPS Sponsored Workshop Series is funded by a grant from the US Embassy in Islamabad and is run in association with the Pakistan Inter-University Social Science Consortium (IUCPSS).

More information about the workshop series:
Part 1 of Series
Part 2 of Series