Paige Hendricks We are excited to announce the winner of the 2021 AIPS Book Prize! This year's award goes to Dr. Mubbashir Rizvi for his book "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan" (Stanford University Press, 2019). The AIPS Book Prize Committee found the book to have "significant potential to draw other scholars … Read more
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Prof. Ted Wright passed away on January 12, 2021. He was a leading scholar on South Asian Muslims and conducted research in both Pakistan and India. Dr. Wright was a Fulbright Senior Research Professor in Pakistan from 1983-84, and he was an AIPS trustee from 1973-82. To read more about Dr. Wright's legacy, please see … Read more
The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is now accepting applications for its Summer 2021 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. This program provides daily classroom instruction along with regular assignments outside of class. Tentative dates for the Summer 2021 program are June … Read more
Edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury (UMass, Boston) and Esha Niyogi De (UCLA), South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters excavates complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia. This volume of scholarly essays began with a collaborative workshop at LUMS, Lahore, funded by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. A … Read more
The last session for the CSS Exam Series has been rescheduled for Thursday, September 3 at 8PM Pakistan Time (10AM CST). There will be no session on Sunday, August 30. Dr. Andre Audette will be joining us again to discuss the U.S. Presidential Election!
The 2020 Annual Conference on South Asia, which takes place in Madison, WI, has been postponed. For more details, please read the full announcement, with preliminary information on proposals and registrations.
Dr. Hafeez Malik, political science scholar, social activist, and one of the founders of AIPS, passed away this past Monday. Prof. Malik will be greatly missed by all. To read more about his life and extensive contributions, please read the article below. https://www.dawn.com/news/1551220/pakistani-scholar-dies-in-us-quietly-after-decades-of-service
The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is accepting applications for its Fall 2020 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. The application deadline is February 14, 2020. Apply now! Application details for US citizens Application details for non-US citizens