The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a bi-national research and education organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan.
Dr. Esha Niyogi De has published a new, single-authored monograph, Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia, available on University of Illinois Press' website.
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.
A new honors course titled "Psychology and AI: Where AI dances with Psychology" has been proposed by Dr. Sadaf Sajjad at Austin Community College. This groundbreaking course in psychological studies provides a foundational understanding of human behavior and mental processes, integrating the study of psychology and its influence on AI. Set to be taught for the first time starting in Spring 2025, this innovative course has been reviewed and accepted by the Honors Committee at Austin Community College.
Mehtabidah Ali's research paper was published in the International Journal of Heliyon. In the study, Ali utilized NASA Satellite Data to predict the behavior of surging glaciers in the HKH ranges of Northern Pakistan and analyzed the risks with glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
Rizwan Ali Shinwari has joined a postdoctoral position in a joint project by the University of Bradfor, UK and Riphah University, Pakistan. The two-year long project will focus on the protection of children in the Pakistani community and will particularly focus on the rising trend in child sexual abuse cases. The project aims to conduct evidence-based research to reach at the core of the social issue.
If you haven't already done so, consider renewing your AIPS individual membership for the next academic year. 2022-23 memberships started with the new member year on October 1st. Click here for more information on renewing your membership. Contact AIPS (aips@pakistanstudies-aips.org) if you have questions regarding membership!
AIPS is happy to announce the recent election results for our Executive Committee! Dr. Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) has been elected the next AIPS Vice-President. Drs. Sanaa Riaz (MSU Denver) and Daniel Majchrowicz (Northwestern University) have both been re-elected to the Executive Committee as At-Large Members. The three-year terms of these offices will begin on October 1st, 2022. Thank you to the Nominating Committee for organizing the elections and to these elected officers for their willingness to serve AIPS.
The South Asia Insitute at Harvard University will be hosting "The Pakistan Conference: 75 Years of Independence" on November 29th - 30th, 2022. The organizers are seeking abstracts for both individual papers and panel proposals on a range of topics covering the Independence movement and its enduring legacies. Read the full Call for Papers here. Submissions must be received by September 30th, 2022. AIPS is delighted to serve as a co-sponsor of this event.
Sundas Amer (PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin) was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Read the final report and more here.
Starting in January 2023, Cambridge University Press will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France.