Prof. Malik will be greatly missed by all. To read more about his life and extensive contributions, please read this article.

Book review by Bramsh Khan
“Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir.” Omer Aijazi (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024).

Research Article by Abid Ali
Borderland, Resistance, and Neo-Pashtun Consciousness: The Case of Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement in Pakistan

Research Article by Kanika Singh
Shared Reverence Post-1947: Observations on the Sikh Case

Editorial by Iqbal Singh Sevea
Rupture and Connectivity: Mobilities and National Imaginations Across the Radcliffe Line

Book Review by Madeline Clements
“Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratising Human Futures.” Shazia Sadaf and Aroosa Kanwal (New York, Abingdon: Routledge, 2024).

Book Review by Sheelalipi Sahana
“Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India.” Sarah Fatima Waheed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Research Article by Syed Akbar Hyder
Breaking Ghalib, Saving Urdu

This full day (9am – 5pm) event invites its participants to explore exciting topics discovered in the overlap of South Asian and Africana Studies. SISAAS will present two panels devoted to unpacking historical and cultural content. The first is “Roots & Routes: Labor and Migration in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Worlds,” surveying African contributions to the western Indian Ocean world from Arabia to South Asia and migrations from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The second, “Cultures in Circulation: Religion, Music and Film in Diasporic Contexts” introduces participants to various Indian-African diasporic exchanges, from African American jazz musicians in Bombay to Bollywood films in Ghana, to the Goddess Kali as worshipped in the Caribbean. The SISAAS third panel provides students with resources and information about the foreign-language training programs and funded research opportunities that will afford access to these fields of study.

Please visit https://sisaas.wordpress.com/register/ to register.
Please direct all inquiries to jazmgraves@uchicago.edu.

The SISAAS Program details the day’s itinerary.

Study-abroad programs are designed to expose students to ideas and cultures different from their own. They are a soft-diplomacy tool, a chance for young people to share positive exchanges with students in parts of the world that aren’t always fond of the United States, places with different philosophies for governing and doing business, Studying abroad is not supposed to be easu or comfortable. But it’s also not supposed to be fatal.

A series of recent terrorist attacks and uprisings around the world in the past few weeks have left several students dead. Last week, Nicolas Leslie, a20-year-old UC Berkeley student taking course in France, was among the more than 80 people killed during a terrorist attack in Nice. Another Berkeley student, Tarishi Jain, perished during the attacks earlier this month in Bangladesh, where she was interning through a university program. Earlier this year, the body of an Italina doctoral student was found in Cairo. It showed signs of torture. A University of Wisconsin at Madison student recently turned up dead in Rome.