AIPS is accepting applications for an exchange program between US and Pakistani scholars! You may submit an application to travel to Pakistan OR to bring a Pakistani junior scholar to the US. AIPS will work with in-country partners to place each US scholar in a Pakistani institution. AIPS collaborates with the Inter University Consortium for … Read more
AIPS was pleased to present on the panel, “American Overseas Research Center Collaborations”, with CAORC for the “FY 2018 Title VI Virtual Technical Assistance Workshop" on September 20, 2017. Click HERE to watch the video! The video can be accessed on YouTube. The ORC/AIPS panel is #14 on the list of panels.
1) Post Doctoral Fellowship (Senior Fellowship) If US Citizen and AIPS Individual Member: Research can be proposed for Pakistan (limited to: Islamabad and Lahore) only, OR Countries other than Pakistan and the US (NOTE: cannot submit an application for Pakistan + a third country) AIPS individual member in good standing at the time of application … Read more
AIPS is delighted to announce Short-term Research Grants to Pakistan (previously known as Summer Research Grant to Pakistan) for 2018. This grant is open to AIPS individual members, 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, 2018. It … Read more
AIPS (co)sponsored a ten-day workshop on Folk Culture and Heritage Management in collaboaration with the National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage at Lok Virsa, Islamabad, Pakistan. This was a first of its kind event that ran everyday from 10AM until 5PM between December 18, 2017 and December 28, 2017. AIPS Trustee Frank Korom (Boston University) … Read more
AIPS is pleased to announce that the Berkeley – AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is accepting applications from non-US Citizens for its Fall 2018 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. Jointly administered by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the Berkeley Urdu … Read more
AIPS is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Book Award prize winner: Prof. Dr. Sadia Saeed, author of Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan! The committee chose the book because of its relevance to Pakistan Studies, as well as because of its theoretical sophistication and depth of argument. The author tackles such … Read more
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies is soliciting books (single authored monographs, no edited volumes) published during the last three years, or nearly published books (galleys must be available) for the 2017-2018 AIPS book prize. ** Please note that this is an academic book prize (literary fiction/short stories are not appropriate for this prize) and … Read more
What is folk? What is folklore? What are folk traditions, shared narratives, rituals and festivals? Why are they so important for our existence? AIPS Trustee Frank Korom answered all the above questions and talked about the evolution of folklore in South Asia in an interview with Aimon Fatima on Folk Beats (Lok Virsa – National … Read more
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) is pleased to announce its 2018 Junior Scholars Conference on Pakistan Studies, which will take place as a pre-conference to the 47th Annual Conference on South Asia. The conference will be held on Thursday October 11, 2018 in Madison, Wisconsin. This one-day conference is expected to bring together junior scholars … Read more