AIPS Co-sponsored Conference ‘Cinema and Transnationalism in Pakistan and South Asia: Regional Histories’ was organized by Dr. Esha Niyogi De (UCLA) and Dr. Ali Khan (LUMS) and hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS on September 1-2, 2016. This conference brought to Pakistan the South Asian Regional Media Studies Network (SARMSNet). … Read more
October 20, 2016 — The Madison Concourse Hotel We invite all AIPS members and scholars interested in Pakistan Studies to attend! AIPS is excited to announce that we are hosting our second Junior Scholars Conference on Pakistan, which will take place at the Madison Concourse Hotel on Thursday, October 20, 2016 from 10:00am to 5:30pm. This conference … Read more
Intizar Husain’s name carries a sense of enigma. His book Story is a Vagabond, which was supported by AIPS is a selection of his translated stories, essays and dramas, originally published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2015. A valiant attempt to look at his personal evolution and the journey of his political and literary … Read more
AIPS parterner institution, the Institute for South Asia Studies, and the Berkeley Pakistan Initiative are delighted to announce the inaugural S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize for 2016-17. They invite submission of the best Ph.D. dissertation on Pakistan (or the region that is now Pakistan) in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Visual & Fine Arts, Law, and … Read more
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan invite applications for appointment as full-time lecturer in the newly established BULPIP-AIPS Urdu Program in Lahore (Pakistan). The appointment is for five months (August 1 – December 31, 2017). For more information and directions on how to apply, please visit the … Read more
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan invite applications for appointment as a Program Manager to coordinate their semester-long intensive Urdu language program. The appointment is for five months (August – December, 2017). The Program Manager will be based in Lahore (Pakistan), must be able to travel in and … Read more
The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is accepting applications for its Fall 2017 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. Jointly administered by the America Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP) at the University of California, Berkeley, this … Read more
1) Post Doctoral Fellowship (Senior Fellowship) Application requirements for US Citizen and enrolled/employed full-time with a US academic institution: Research must be conducted in countries OTHER THAN the US or Pakistan AIPS individual member in good standing at the time of application and throughout the tenure of this grant Application requirements for Non-US Citizen and enrolled/employed full-time with … Read more
AIPS is delighted to announce Short-term/Summer Research Grants to Pakistan for 2017. This grant is open to those who are affiliated with an academic institution in the US, regardless of citizenship. US citizen applicants will be required to conduct research in either Islamabad or Lahore. All research must be conducted by December 31, 2017. It is … Read more
AIPS is pleased to announce the 2015-16 Book Award prize winner, Prof. Dr. David Gilmartin, author of Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History. The Book Prize committee noted that Professor Gilmartin’s book is a major contribution to the study of colonial state formation, environmental history and the settlement of colonial frontiers. … Read more