Eileen Brewer and Cathy Simpson recently finished their TechWomen program that included a series of over 30 talks, workshops, and sessions on topics relating to women in STEM and entrepreneurship from February 26 to March 12 in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan. The TechWomen program is part of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and … Read more
The Duke-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows Program website was recently updated to feature blog posts about the Digital Humanities workshop and faculty exchange program led by Dr. Matthew A. Cook. Part 1 of the workshop series brought several Duke-NCCU DH alumni to Pakistan to work with 12 Pakistani junior faculty in the development of digital humanities skills. … Read more
Dr. Matthew Cook, Dr. Collie Fulford and Dr. W. Russell Robinson led a workshop on Digital Humanities in Lahore, Pakistan! They utilized the skills they developed as fellows of the NCCU-Duke Digital Humanities Initiative to work with 11 junior Pakistani faculty to build their Digital Humanities skills. The workshop focus revolved around how to integrate … Read more
Welcome back community college and MSI faculty and administrators! This group participated in the CAORC-AIPS Faculty Development Seminar on "Religion and Culture in the Postcolonial City: Lahore 2019." The program sought to provide the participants with firsthand experiences of various cultural sites and practices in Lahore for incorporation in their future course development at their home … Read more
Dr. Nafees Ahmed participated in a six-week mentoring program with Dr. J. Mark Kenoyer at UW-Madison as part of the AIPS Junior Faculty Mentoring and Exchange Program. He gained training on a variety of archaeological tools and technologies, enhanced his teaching skills, and learned about the diversity of cultures in the U.S. through attending cultural … Read more
Dr. Marcia Hermansen, Director of the Islamic World Studies program at Loyola University Chicago, led an AIPS-sponsored workshop on "New Developments and Debates in Islamic Studies" at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan! This five-day workshop was designed to communicate important trends, publications, and pedagogical strategies to early career faculty from diverse Pakistani Universities. Twenty-two students … Read more
The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) will be accepting applications for its Fall 2019 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan through March 1, 2019. Jointly administered by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP) at … Read more
Thank you to those that organized and attended the AIPS-sponsored events at the Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin! To view photos from the events, please visit and "like" our Facebook page. AIPS Junior Scholars Symposium: This symposium showcased the research being done by eight junior scholars in the field of Pakistan Studies. AIPS … Read more
Ms. Sarah Beckham and Dr. Gwendolyn Kirk hosted a "New Pedagogies Workshop Series" at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in September of 2018. These instructor training workshops demonstrated the concepts of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL), Flipped/Blended Learning, and core principles of Student-Centered Learning, with a specific focus on how these could be used in the teaching of Less Commonly … Read more
Co-edited volume by AIPS President, Professor Kamran Asdar Ali