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Title: Site Re-Envisioning Pakistan: The Political Economy of Social Transformation Date: April 4-5, 2014 Website: www.re-envisioningpakistan.org We would like to inform and invite you to an international conference on Pakistan to be held at Sarah Lawrence College this spring.  The conference aims to bring together a range of diverse perspectives to examine historical realities and … Read more

AIPS has received funding from the US Embassy for a series of three workshops in four different subject areas, where the same participants attend all three workshops within one particular series. Three series of workshops are scheduled for the upcoming months. Workshop theme: Visual Analysis: art, architecture and mediaOrganizer: Iftikhar Dadi Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University, … Read more

Date: April 7-9, 2014 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. In addition, the Buchanan center for the … Read more

Title: Contextualizing Pakistan: From Within and WithoutDate: 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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Congratulations to the recipients of AIPS's fifth round of awardees for the Short-Term Fellowships! Elizabeth Bolton, Doctoral Student at University of Texas at Austin, awarded 5 months in Lahore Dr. Lubna Chaudhry, Associate Professor at State University of New York, Binghamton, awarded 2 months in Islamabad Dr. Filomena Critelli, Associate Professor at University at Buffalo, … Read more

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. 

Congratulations to the recipients of an AIPS Long-term Fellowship! Elizabeth Lhost, PhD Student at University of Chicago, awarded 3 months in London Ameem Lutfi, ABD Graduate Student at Duke University, awarded 6 months in Manama & Zanzibar  Waleed Ziad, PhD Candidate at Yale University, awarded 4 months in Uzbekistan, UK Regular Fellowships: Funded by Council of American Overseas Research … Read more