A three-day conference titled “Pathways to Development” was held in mid-December (19th-21st) at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. The conference featured participation from several US-based scholars whose travel was facilitated by Yale University (Dr. Sarah Khan) with support from AIPS. The conference saw more than 70 speakers across 22 panel sessions … Read more
Congratulations to both Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Assistant Professor, Columbia University) and Dr. Waleed Ziad (Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill) for receiving the 2023 AIPS Book Prize! This year, the AIPS Book Prize Committee selected two books for the annual award. The committee found Huacuja Alonso’s book, Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders, to … Read more
AIPS is excited to announce our 2023-24 Fellows! Post-Doctoral Fellowships were awarded to Brannon Ingram, Northwestern University; Mubbashir Rizvi, American University; Sameena Azhar, Fordham University; Syed ShahBano Ijaz, University of CA-San Diego; and Walter Hakala, University of Buffalo. Pre-Doctoral Fellowships were awarded to Aabiya Noman Baqai, University of Texas at Austin; Du Fei, Cornell University; … Read more
Congratulations to Muhammad Zubair Abro for being chosen as the 2023 recipient of the Suhail Zaheer Lari Memorial Fellowship Fund! A pre-doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico, Abro explores "the mediation of Sindhi nationalism in the Sufi voicings of the poetry of Shah Latif, and the implications of the practices of this underrepresented … Read more
AIPS is excited to announce the Short-Term Research Grants for 2023. Our recipients are Ahmed Afzal, California State University-Fullerton; Daniel Waqar, Tufts University; Ijaz Ahmad, University of Georgia; Jonathan Paramore, University of California-Santa Cruz; Muntazir Ali, Brown University; Noor Habib, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Omar Gondal, Washington University in St. Louis; Osama Ahmad, Brown University; Sharmeen … Read more
AIPS is excited to announce the recent Treasurer election results! Dr. Michael Hirsch (Huston-Tillotson University) has been elected the next AIPS Treasurer. Thank you to the Nominating Committee for organizing the election and to Dr. Hirsch for his willingness to serve AIPS!
AIPS will be hosting the Introduction to Urdu Language and Culture online course this fall. Enrollment is open to all interested in exploring the Urdu language and culture. Participants will have the opportunity to gain a solid foundation in Urdu and learn about the rich cultural traditions of Pakistan and other Urdu-speaking regions. No previous … Read more
Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in UrduGuest Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Fatima Z. Naveed We invite scholars and translators of Popular Urdu literature and art—broadly defined as texts intended to be read by mass audiences—to contribute to a special issue, “Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary … Read more
The first articles of Critical Pakistan Studies are now available! There are currently 8 articles that are publicly available via "FirstView" on Cambridge University Press's website. Critical Pakistan Studies is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes primary source interpretive research that, in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis, analyzes, discusses, and seeks to understand the varied and … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Ali Usman Qasmi (Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences) for receiving the 2024 AIPS Book Prize for his book Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan! The committee found this book to be “a significant and original contribution to Pakistan Studies and South Asia Studies, and to the study … Read more