Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
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2017-18 Travel Grants
CAORC Funded
*Funding provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State through a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
Neelam Khoja
Affiliated Institution: Harvard University
Conference Name: American Historical Association (AHA) Conference
Conference Dates: January 4-7, 2018
Title of Paper: "The Butcher of Hindustan": Ahmad Shah Abdali in 18th Century Punjab
Paper Abstract Final Report
Esha Niyogi De
Affiliated Institution: University of California - Los Angeles
Conference Name: Workshop on Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights and Speculations
Conference Dates: February 21-22, 2018
Title of Paper: Action Heroines and Corporeal Utopia: Trans-Urban Women's Cinema in Islamizing Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Alexis M. Saba
Affiliated Institution: Indiana University
Conference Name: Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference
Conference Dates: March 25-29, 2018
Title of Paper: Development Custodians of the Right to Education in Punjab, Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Randall W. Law
Affiliated Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Conference Name: European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art
Conference Dates: July 2-6, 2018
Title of Paper: Steatite Civilization: An overview of Harappan talc acquisition and trade networks
Paper Abstract Final Report
Dean Accardi
Affiliated Institution: Connecticut College
Conference Name: 47th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 11-14, 2018
Title of Paper: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Kashmir's Invoked Pasts
Paper Abstract Final Report
Nabeeha Chaudhary
Affiliated Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Conference Name: 47th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 11-14, 2018
Title of Paper: Home, Mobility, and the 'New Woman'-Dobara Phir Se and the 'New' Pakistani Film
Paper Abstract Final Report
Sohaib Khan
Affiliated Institution: Columbia University
Conference Name: 47th Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 11-14, 2018
Title of Paper: "Let the Beard Grow and Trim the Mustache": Muslim Ethics between Mimesis and Embodiment
Paper Abstract Final Report
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Maria-Magdalena Fuchs
Affiliated Institution: Princeton University
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies 2018 Conference
Conference Dates: March 22-25, 2018
Title of Paper: Act in the Living Present: Muslim Voluntary Associations in Colonial Punjab and the Quest for a "Modern" Islam
Paper Abstract Final Report
Maira Hayat
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies 2018 Conference
Conference Dates: March 22-25, 2018
Title of Paper: "We have always wanted to be modern": sovereignty, a shared river basin and the postcolonial in Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Zunaira Yousaf
Affiliated Institution: Binghamton University - State University of New York
Conference Name: 49th Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
Conference Dates: April 12-14, 2018
Title of Paper: Nostalgia and Identity ub Mohsib Hamid's Fiction
Paper Abstract Final Report
Adeem Suhail
Affiliated Institution: Emory University
Conference Name: Precarity/Promise: 2018 Stanford Anthropology Graduate Conference
Conference Dates: April 27-28, 2018
Title of Paper: Gangs and Procrustean Beds: Precarity and possibility amidst an urban gang war in Karachi, Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Mishal Khan
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Conference Name: Social Science History Association
Conference Dates: November 8-11, 2018
Title of Paper: Imperial Constructs and Difference: Contestations and Durabilities
Paper Abstract Final Report