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ix years passes by quickly, it seems utilized by scholars from Pakistan and the US. During 2016, the Junior Scholars Conference just yesterday that all of you provided AIPS website recorded approximately 26,000 unique visitors with on Pakistan, Madison, 2016 Sme with the honor of serving AIPS 31% users from Pakistan and 31% from the US. The remaining 38% Farina Mir, University of Michigan as its President, which I have now done for of visitors came from other global locations, including India, the almost two full terms. AIPS today has 37 UK, and the UAE. In addition to announcing competitions, publica- n the last decade there has been a Universities as institutional members and our tions, and events in Pakistan and the US, AIPS utilizes social media substantial increase in the number of individual membership stands at 176 (from outlets such as Facebook, to maintain contact with scholars and Istudents admitted into social science approximately 65 in 2010-2011). In the past the general public. and humanities graduate programs in the seven years 2010-2017, AIPS has awarded 77 This data clearly shows that AIPS is moving forward with energy United States. Where earlier generations of Research Fellowships (50 were for research and vision. For the moment we are financially secure and have the scholars working on Pakistan were primar- in Pakistan). Within the same time period, 50 required funds to maintain our core mission of enhancing the study ily focused in the fields of economics and domestic and 46 international (a total of 96) of Pakistan in US universities through academic workshops, fellow- political science, we now have a new group Kamran Asdar Ali travel grants have been awarded and AIPS ships, exchange programs and travel grants to conferences. Build- of graduate students and recent PhDs in funded 51 workshops in the US and Pakistan. In addition, 52 scholars ing on past practice we have continued to broaden opportunities cultural anthropology, archeology, sociol- have been awarded summer research grants since this program’s for research and academic exchange for our members in a range of ogy, education, media studies, history, inception (2012). Since 2010, with the aid of the US Embassy and disciplines. For example, following up on the Dissertation Writing religious studies, literary studies and a CAORC/ECA grants, AIPS has funded 225 US-based scholars with program initiated by my predecessor, Mark Kenoyer, since 2014, AIPS range of other disciplines studying Paki- fellowships, summer research grants and travel grants. has trained 124 junior faculty in public sector universities in Pakistan stani culture and society. AIPS has been in In this day of social media and outreach, evidenced by web- through organizing ten workshops (each workshop is part of a series the forefront of this wave of change and site tracking data (and through the untiring efforts by our staff of two or three workshops based on a particular theme: Teaching has given ample support to these scholars colleagues), our website (www.pakistanstudies-aips.org) is highly Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, Conflict and Peace through its numerous programs, includ- Building, Visual Analysis: Art, Architecture, and Media and Pakistan ing: fellowships, summer research grants, cases informs how the rest of the world sion and exchange. One of the main aims and Peace: Methods and Meaning). publication write-up awards, and travel views and imagines the country. Senior AIPS for this conference was to create a network AIPS 2017 New s l e t t e r Further, in addition to supporting workshops and conferences in grants to attend conferences. Building on affiliated scholars were present throughout of young scholars who work on Pakistan in 2 President’s Report Pakistan and in the US (LUMS/Clemson University, Boston University, these initiatives and mindful of the fact that the day to serve as panel discussants and US universities. By all indications AIPS suc- University of Michigan in 2016-2017), in 2014, AIPS initiated a series these young researchers are indeed the participated with the assembled audience of ceeded in its mission and plans to organize 3 AIPS Junior Scholars Conference of workshops on new intellectual areas of research on Pakistan in the future of AIPS and the study of Pakistan in students and faculty in the general discus- future conferences. n 4 Infrastructure and its Discontents in Pakistan, UM Conference coming decade. Two workshops have already been organized at the US academia, AIPS’ Executive Committee State, Society and Democracy in the Postcolony 5 University of Michigan (2015) and Arizona State University (2016), a decided to organize the second AIPS Ju- 6 Trending Pakistan: A History Workshop third will be organized in Pakistan in Fall of 2017. Similarly, the suc- nior Scholars Conference on Pakistan as a Participants and presentation titles: 6 Eighth Karachi Literature Festival cess of the summer research grant that is directed toward graduate pre-conference to the 45th Annual Confer- 7 faculty Mentoring Program: UT at Austin and Austin CC students notwithstanding, AIPS has successfully held two workshops ence on South Asia in Madison on October Abida Bano, PhD Candidate, Faiza Moatasim, Visiting Assistant in conjunction with the South Asia Conference in Madison for junior 20, 2016. We encouraged those graduate Western Michigan University Professor, Hamilton College 8 aips Workshop Series­-Visual Analysis scholars. These workshops have provided a venue for the new gen- students who were writing their disserta- “Women’s Representation in Local “Negotiating Nonconformity: The Politics 9 islamabad Center News eration working on Pakistan to become familiar with each other’s tions and post-doctoral scholars who had Democracy: Formal and Informal of Encroachment in the Planned Modern BULPIP-AIPS Urdu Language Program 10 works and also get to know the senior scholars in the field.A part completed their PhDs in the last three years Institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa” City of Islamabad” Pakistan Archaeology and Cultural Heritage News 11 from the intellectual merit of such events, these are the future of to apply. AIPS received 10 proposals out Saad Gulzar, PhD Candidate, Shayan Rajani, PhD Candidate, 11 Interreligious Dialogue at Loyola Hall, Lahore AIPS and will eventually be part of the leadership of tomorrow. of which 7 were selected, and were able to New York University Tufts University 12 Member News As we know, since 2014 AIPS has partnered with the University of attend the conference. Each participant’s “Politicians: Experimental Evidence “Obstructing Geography: Resisting California, Berkeley Urdu Program in restarting the teaching of Urdu travel (within the US) and accommodation 16 AIPS Fellows and Grantees on Candidacy from KP, Pakistan” British Interventionism in Early in Lahore, Pakistan after a lapse of more than a decade. This program (two nights) was provided by AIPS. Nineteenth Century Sindh” 21 Institutional Member News Maira Hayat, PhD Candidate, has expanded and now sponsors Urdu teachers from Pakistan to be The Conference brought together a New AIPS Institutional Members University of Chicago Mashal Saif, Assistant Professor, 23 trained in the pedagogical methods of teaching Urdu as a second group of highly talented and intellectually “Big Companies, Small Bureaucrats: Clemson University 24 AIPS Book Prize language at US universities and at the SASLI program in Madison. bright scholars who presented excellent Water and Governance in Pakistan” “Sovereignty between God and the State: 24 AIPS Election Results In opening up new areas of engagement and exchange, AIPS papers on Pakistan’s politicians, security, Sahar Khan, PhD Candidate, Insulting Muhammad in Contemporary 25 AIPS Funding Opportunities has created a pilot exchange project between US based com- water and governance, religion and the University of California, Irvine Pakistan” In Memoriam: Intizar Husain munity colleges and two year colleges in Punjab. The project is state, women and democracy, and coloniza- 26 “Ontological Security: Explaining being conducted with close collaboration with the Punjab HEC. tion and resistance among other themes. Continued State-sponsorship of We envisage faculty members from the selected degree colleges These new and refreshing topics were in Militancy in Pakistan” Contact information contrast to the representation of Pakistan [email protected] n www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/ Continued on p.25 linked to Islamist radicalism that in most 4 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 5 University of Michigan’s Pakistan Conference 2016: Clemson University Infrastructure and its Discontents in Pakistan AIPS-sponsored collaborative conference: State, Society and Democracy in the Postcolony

The second panel at the conference lemson University, in collabora- One of the distinguishing features titled, “Detritus and Development: See- tion with the Lahore University of the conference was the novelty of ing Infrastructure in Ruined Landscapes,” of Management Sciences (LUMS) approaches adopted to the examination consisted of two artists, Shahana Rajani and C and with support from the Lahore Col- of the state and society in Pakistan. For Zahra Malkani, members of the Tentative lege of Women University (LCWU) and example, one excellent paper interwove Collective based in Pakistan. Aside from AIPS organized a conference titled, “State, a year of fieldwork in a smallP akistani their art practice, they are teachers at the Society and Democracy in the Postcolony,” village and affect theory to assert that Indus Valley School of Art and Architec- in August 2016. Conference participants the affective is a technology of rule which ture and co-founders of the Karachi Art who arrived in Lahore early were welcomed undergirds state-society relations. Another Anti-University. Using artistic and inter- at an informal dinner on 4th August at outstanding paper examined legal iden- disciplinary research methods, they focus Haveli Restaurant—an establishment in tity construction among hijras to show on the relationship of infrastructure to the Old Lahore with a stunning view of the that influential state and social actors, landscape and ecology of cities. Reframing Badshahi Mosque and Minar-e-Pakistan. employing the rhetoric of benevolence, the controlled and constructed image of The conference formally began on the create new identity categories that reflect infrastructure as modern and technological morning of 5th August and continued dominant social constructions of minori- progress, they highlighted the ruination of until the evening of 6th August. Both days ties. Yet another paper focused on the landscapes and degraded ecologies. They were packed with exciting presentations. Pakistani Ahmadi community to explore focused on the Ravi river in Lahore and its This conference focused on the impact and theorize the insecurities and suspicion system of dysfunctional water sanitation of neoliberalism on state, society and birthed by discourses of Ahmadi decep- he 6th Annual Pakistan Conference, Karachi, Pakistan. Her talk analyzed the rela- plants and the mega-development project democracy in the postcolonial world. Most tion. The paper examined anxieties over organized by the Organization of tionship between infrastructure and industri- of Bahria Town, where a vast network of pri- papers centered on Pakistan but several also ensuring that Ahmadis are clearly sepa- TPakistani Students and the Cen- al development in the 21st century through vate infrastructure is displacing indigenous examined other parts of the Global South, rated from state-endorsed Muslims and ter for South Asian Studies, University of the prism of Pakistan’s post-independence communities. By documenting the impact particularly other regions in the Indian used these examinations to comment on South Asia through Foucauldian lenses. Michigan, was held on April 8, 2016. The history, industrialization, and the present of infrastructural ruination at these two sites, subcontinent. We had more than a hundred the modern state's regulation of religion Examinations of everyday citizens’ panelists, academics, and artists from discourse of an ‘infrastructure crisis’ in the the two artists powerfully portrayed the attendees in addition to the almost 40 pre- and religious difference in Pakistan. While engagements, imaginations and nego- Pakistan and the United States focused on context of a globalizing Pakistan. ruins created across a rapidly transforming senters who shared their rich and innovative such approaches to politics may not be so tiations with state in South Asian are an the theme of infrastructure and develop- This talk was followed by a panel on “In- landscape alongside ‘development.’ research. The presenters ranged from full novel for other parts of the Global South, emerging trend to which the conference ment. From the China-Pakistan Economic frastructure, Identity, and Place: The Politics David Gilmartin, Professor of History at professors in the United States to graduate they certainly represent a new trend in contributed. Pakistan is often peripheral Corridor to the jungle of flyovers and of Mega Development Projects in Pakistan” North Carolina State University, provided students from all over the world. We were scholarship on Pakistan. to other such examinations of the South underpasses in Lahore, the development with presentations by Majed Akhter (De- comments as discussant for all three panels. pleased to also have a high number of local A defining feature of the onferencec Asian state. In contrast to this dominant of infrastructure in Pakistan has rapidly partment of Geography, Indiana University) He put the presentations in conversation Pakistan-based scholars present their work. was its focus on the state and society in trend, our conference situated Pakistan at transformed the country’s landscape. This and Hafeez Jamali (School of Arts, Humani- with one another, drawing them together the heart of its study while also placing it process has been accompanied by both ties, and Social Sciences, Habib University, within a longer history of state power, and in conversation with its South Asian neigh- critique and approval within Pakistani Karachi). Akhter’s paper examined the series regimes of property and law in South Asia. bors, particularly India. society. Through a conversation between of development projects collectively labeled The conference ended with a round- The conference was very well received artists and academics, conference partici- the China-Pak-Economic Corridor. He drew table discussion on engaged scholarship in and was covered in the media. pants engaged infrastructural develop- on debates in political geography, Marxist which scholars were involved in a benefi- ment not as predetermined or inevitable, political economy, world systems theory, cial reciprocal partnership with the com- • http://tribune.com.pk/story/1157252/ but as a process entangled with social and Asian studies to situate the controversy munity they study. This session included rethinking-state-redefine-province-centre- and political implications. By exploring the within the longer history of contradictory in- short presentations by graduate students ties-effective-reforms/ particularities of infrastructural production frastructural intervention in the Indus region. working in various parts of the globe in- • http://tribune.com.pk/story/1156663/ and experience in Pakistan, the confer- His talk was followed by Jamali’s presenta- cluding India, South Africa and the United rights-vs-duties-poor-rarely-get-rights-neo- ence participants including both panelists tion, which explored the struggles over land States. The roundtable was motivated by liberal-regimes/ and practices of place emerging from ethnic and audience members grappled with the discontent around development, which • http://tribune.com.pk/story/1156659/secu- Baloch fishermen’s entanglements with the the complex and multi-faceted aspects of often manifests in contentious political ac- rity-sectarianism-violence-public-outrage- Pakistani government’s plans and practices infrastructure in Pakistan today. tion by communities, individuals, and so- aps-attack-facilitated-violent-response/ The conference began with an introduc- for developing a large commercial seaport cial formations that are directly impacted The conference organizers are very tory talk titled, “Rethinking Infrastructure & in the coastal town of Gwadar. Collectively, by development projects and scholarship grateful for the AIPS support that made this Development in the 21st Century in Industri- they presented a nuanced and well-rounded concerning them. n —Zehra Hashmi conference possible! n — Mashal Saif alizing Pakistan,” by Nausheen Anwar from picture of the stakes and effects of infra- the Institute of Business Administration in structural projects in Pakistan. 6 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 7 Trending Pakistan: A History Workshop AIPS Pilots a Community College Exchange Arizona State University in collaboration Program with Pakistani college principals with the AIPS April 28/29, 2016 in the US.

rending Pakistan: A History Work- scholars from Pakistan, India, and the United he American Institute of Pakistan talking to SAI at the conclusion of his visit. shop” was organized and sponsored States. The workshop explored burgeoning Studies has initiated a pilot com- According to Dr. Butt, the only way to make Tby the AIPS on April 28 and 29, 2016 new trends and approaches for rethinking Tmunity college training program community college in Pakistan “meaningful at Arizona State University. The three-part the role of history in understanding Pakistan. in collaboration with the Punjab Higher and successful” is to give the community in workshop series grew out of the AIPS Presi- The workshop focused on various issues of Education Commission. The project funda- the vicinity of his college more involvement dent Kamran Ali Asdar’s initiative to encour- politics, culture and society for linking the mentally is an exchange program for the in college affairs. age and infuse new thinking and intellectual past with the present. The twelve papers teachers and administrators at selected Mr. Jaffary agreed, adding: “The link questions for the study of Pakistan. The presented at the conference covered local, degree colleges in Punjab. It focuses on the between academia and industry must be workshop was co-sponsored by ASU’s Cen- national and diasporic histories of Pakistan professional development of faculty mem- established.” ter for the Study of Religion and Conflict, and Pakistani communities. The vibrancy bers from these colleges who will spend Ms. Sarwar also visited the job fair tak- Hardt-Nickachos Initiative in Peace Studies. and possibility of multiple histories emerg- three weeks each at selected US com- ing place at ACC’s Highland Campus dur- ing and circulating in different sites was a munity colleges. The program is designed ing her stay and was impressed with what History is everywhere common theme. It became clear from the to (a) expose visiting faculty to research she saw. “It was very organized,” she said. in Pakistan—it is being two-day discussion that history is not an opportunities and teaching pedagogies “Companies were conducting on-the-spot ignored or dead topic in Pakistan, nor is through a program of mentorship; (b) job interviews.” actively created, con- it controlled and managed by one central attend discipline-specific classes to learn The principals were all too aware of sumed and recycled. body. Rather, history is everywhere in Paki- advanced pedagogical techniques; (c) the lack of infrastructure and resources in stan—it is being actively created, consumed participate in workshops, seminars/lectures Pakistan where both computers and teach- The main aim of the workshop was to and recycled for use in different sites, com- in addition to making use of the library and ers are scarce. Ms. Sarwar said some of what critically engage and explore the diversities munities, and contexts. The effort to engage other academic resources on campus; (d) she saw could be implemented in Pakistan, of Pakistan’s history by bringing together in this multi-faceted history was the main take advantage of site visits, networking “but not at this scale.” a variety of junior and promising young thrust of the conference. n opportunities, and intercultural experiences The principals were invited to interact on campus; and (e) work on field-specific with students of Sociology, Government and curricular topics (the visiting Pakistani fac- Rubina Sarwar and William Hayden, ACC Psychology classes to talk about Pakistan’s ulty and the mentor/partner faculty at the government and its conflict withI ndia over community colleges) for associate degree the US. ACC’s Officeof International Pro- Kashmir, and the lives of women in Pakistan. Eighth Karachi Literature Festival level students. They will also co-develop a grams took the principals to meet adminis- “You are pampered,” Ms. Sarwar said to a topical course to be offered at the Degree trators and faculty one-on-one, and attend class of sociology students she interacted College by the returning faculty. In the sec- governance meetings where administrative with during the last few days of her visit. by Aqsa Ijaz, AIPS Junior Faculty Mentoring Fellow, 2015-16. ond phase of this project, faculty from the issues were discussed and decisions taken. All three visitors expressed their US community colleges who have served The principals also toured several ACC appreciation for William Hayden, Director eing an AIPS Junior Scholar Men- one of which was devoted to her book as mentors will travel to Lahore to offer campuses in the Greater Austin area, and International Programs at ACC, who planned tor Fellow (2015-2016) provided Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s training courses for a group of degree col- were impressed with student learning facili- their study tour and personally drove them me with great opportunities to Rights. In addition to Matthew Cook and B lege faculty and administrators. around for meetings and visits. ties like the ACCelerator Lab and Bioscience meet a wide-range of academics in the Anita Weiss, I also met Roger Long (East- Recently, under this program AIPS Incubator. The ACCelerator is a state-of- For his part, Mr. Hayden said the prin- United States. This opportunity also led ern Michigan State University) at KLF. Like partnered with the University of Texas at the-art technological teaching facility that cipals’ visits were also “a great learning to meetings with U.S. academics at events Cook and Weiss, Long was on multiple KLF Austin’s South Asia Institute to host three provides 600+ computer stations and an opportunity for ACC to understand … the in Pakistan, like the Karachi Literature panels. One was “Remembering Liaquat principals of degree colleges in Pakistan to extensive network of faculty, counselors, many challenges they face as they embark Festival (KLF). Ali Khan” and another was “The Birth of study the community college system in the advisors, tutors, librarians and other staff for on the pilot project to adopt US community In February 2017, KLF invited me to be Two Nations.” US at the Austin Community College (ACC) individualized and group learning. The lab college practices in their own institutions.” part of a panel—along with Christina Oester- Being able to extend academic con- this spring. Given below is a short report on facilitates the teaching of mathematics as a The three principals also spent time held, Bushra Malik, Fehmida Riaz, and Amtul versations in Pakistan with people that I the activities to-date. foundation subject at ACC, and also encour- exploring the city on foot and imbibing Manan Tahi—titled “Feminine Consciousness met in the United States was a great part For three weeks during March and April ages DIY learning albeit with teachers and UT’s intellectual spirit. Mr. Jaffary summed in Urdu Fiction.” At KLF, I met my former of being at KLF. It also highlights how the 2017, Dr. Ijaz Butt, Principal, Government instructors always available to help. The up his impressions in the following words: AIPS mentor (Matthew Cook), who was on AIPS Junior Scholar Mentor Fellow pro- College Township, Lahore, Mr. Baqir Jaffary, Bioscience Incubator is a wet lab facility that “Austin is a city of education. There are three KLF panels. I also met Anita Weiss, gram not only fosters academic exchanges Principal, Government College Civil Lines bridges the gap in the “research to product” students studying everywhere—in labs and the University of Oregon’s AIPS trustee. between Pakistanis and American in the in Multan and Ms. Rubina Sarwar Principal, cycle, providing an innovative work environ- classrooms, on the street, sitting under Professor Weiss was on multiple KLF panels, United States but also Pakistan. n Government College for Women in Gujran- trees in the shade.” n —Sahar Ali, Research Matthew Cook and Aqsa Ijaz ment for life science entrepreneurs. wala visited with administrators at ACC to “It would be revolutionary if we follow Associate, South Asia Institute, U Texas learn how community colleges function in this model in our country,” said Dr. Ijaz Butt, 8 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 9

from regions in the Global South, so that the attendees might find Sangat performers from UT at Austin parallels with Pakistan. For example, one of the readings discussed and NAPA, Karachi at PNCA, Islamabad formal and ephemeral museums in Morocco, enabling the attend- ees to recognize institutions in Lahore. A question like “how many museums are there in Lahore” now no longer had a simple or formulaic answer because Lahore has many surprising and diverse Islamabad permanent and temporary sites for the collection and display of art and material culture. William Glover (Professor, University of Michigan), whose Center News expertise is architectural history and urbanism led the second workshop. Given the speed with which Pakistan is urbanizing, this he Islamabad Center had an event- 2) AIPS, in association with LUMS, hosted and students along with officials fromM in- is a topic of tremendous importance. The workshop took a field filled year coordinating multiple pro- a faculty development workshop on “Art istry of Climate Change attended the talk trip to the city of Chiniot famous for its architectural crafts and Tgrams, workshops and conferences. & Architecture” at LUMS Rausing Execu- and interacted with the scholar on various mansions, and also created a joint project for the workshop, by In association with COMSATS, we organized tive Center, Lahore from Jan 2-6, 2017. Dr. historical aspects of Climate Change issues. writing reflections on the space and location of their own homes, a fusion music concert at the Pakistan Na- Iftikhar Dadi (Professor of Art History at based on the concepts and histories they had engaged with dur- tional Council of Arts, Islamabad on January Cornell University) conducted the five-day ing the week. 8, 2017. Music school faculty and students extensive workshop and interacted with AIPS Workshop Series I also conducted the final workshop, which was focused on from University of Texas in partnership with Pakistani junior faculty members from vari- crafts, media, and popular cinema. The readings and case studies National Academy for Performing Arts ous universities and institutes across Paki- Visual Analysis: included a look at Lok Virsa, an institution which was founded (NAPA) performed SANGAT at Islamabad. stan. The workshop was the third and final during the 1970s to preserve and promote the folk culture of Over 350 people, including the US Public in the series, under the US Embassy-funded Pakistan. The attendees discussed the stability of the idea of Affairs Officer and Cultural Affairs officer AIPS initiative for thematic research work- Art, Architecture, the “folk” with reference to an uneven but steadily modernizing and other delegates and officials from shops, for academic mentoring of Pakistani society. A key focus of this week was on the analysis of commer- governmental ministries, universities and students and faculty by US scholars. and Media cial cinema. Questions such as “how does the song-and-dance the Prime Minister Secretariat attended the 4) The AIPS Islamabad center hosted visit- sequence upend the narrative form of realist cinema?” were event. Before Islamabad, the SANGAT team ing faculty members from University of addressed through assigned readings and through collective also performed in Karachi, which attracted a North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW) under scene analysis in class. large gathering of over 250 attendees. the US Embassy in Pakistan funded faculty his workshop series was conducted in three one-week The workshop series was undoubtedly beneficial for the exchange partnership program. For this 1) The AIPS Islamabad center facilitated a sessions between 2015 and 2017. Each workshop focused attendees. And as I am presently engaged in writing on the art program, UNCW partners with International Hollings Center pre-departure orientation of Ton specific facets of visual analysis, and was attended by and cinema of Pakistan, the workshops provided me with con- Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI). Dr. Caro- the Afghanistan—Pakistan dialogue group faculty from Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi and other places, who siderable insight into the contemporary state of scholarship and line Clements is the Project Director, and she, on November 22, 2016 at Ramada Hotel, are affiliated with institutions of higher education and teach art discussion on these topics in Pakistan. n — Iftikhar Dadi along with other faculty members visited Islamabad. Ms. Ashley Mutlu, Hollings Cen- history, visual studies, architectural history, and cinema stud- AIPS center, Islamabad on February 16 and ter, coordinated the pre-departure orienta- ies. As there are hardly any departments in Pakistan focusing on 3) The AIPS Islamabad center hosted a held courtesy meetings with the AIPS Paki- tion of participants in Pakistan including these areas, the efforts of these faculty members are based on series of talks by visiting Trustee, Dr. Robert stan Director, Mr. Nadeem Akbar, along with academics, trade leaders and civil society individual initiative and commitment, rather than being conducted Nichols, (Professor of History, Stockton the visiting AIPS Trustee, Dr. Robert Nichols. organization representatives. The meeting systematically with good institutional support. The goal of con- University, New Jersey) at Quaid-i-Azam AIPS is facilitating visa processing and other focused on exploring possible avenues for ducting these workshops was not only to introduce the attendees University, Islamabad, COMSATS, Islam- logistics for the ongoing faculty exchange dialogue and collaborations with colleagues to key issues in the field and current scholarship around them, but abad and Allama Iqbal Open University, program between UNCW and IIUI. n and related organizations in Afghanistan. also for them to exchange ideas amongst themselves and to see Islamabad during his visit, February 4 – 20, each other as resources and allies facing similar challenges. 2017. Dr. Nichols gave talks related to his I organized the workshop series and led the first workshop.I ts book, “Frontier Crime Regulations: History focus was on methods for the analysis of modern art. The topics in Documents,” at Quaid-i-Azam and Allam covered included formal analysis, and situating modern art with Iqbal Open University which was well at- reference to nationalism, institutions, and developments in trans- tended by students and faculty at both the national modernism. Zahid Chaudhary, a professor at Princeton universities. He gave a separate talk titled, University and the author of a book on colonial era photography, “History of Environment” at COMSATS, Is- guest-led a session on the analysis of photography. Hammad Nasar, lamabad on February 23, which was hosted then director of research at Asia Art Archives, guest-led another by the Center for Research in Climate session on research practices in archives. Case studies were drawn Change at COMSATS, Islamabad. Faculty 10 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 11 BULPIP-AIPS Pakistan Archaeology Urdu Language Program and Cultural Heritage News

program since the Fall of 2015). Gwen Kirk returned as the Program his past year has seen some very Manager and also lecturer in Urdu linguistics and Urdu poetry important archaeology confer- (Kirk received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University Tences and excavation programs of Texas-Austin in October 2016). Although students and program in Pakistan that demonstrate the grow- Studying and Researching personnel alike had to take basic security precautions, none missed ing importance of Cultural Heritage Together: Interreligious Dia- any opportunity to explore Lahore, meet residents of the city, and and Archaeological studies throughout logue at Loyola Hall, Lahore pursue their own research. By all accounts, the program highlights the country. AIPS has a long history of were the weeklong road trip to Rohtas fort, Islamabad, Taxila, the supporting Cultural Heritage studies, Stepping inside Loyola Hall, the Jesuit Center Katas Raj Temple, the Khewra Salt Mines, Golra Sharif, and Murree archaeology conferences, and confer- for Interreligious Dialogue at Lahore, feels like in November and the weekly Friday speaker series (which hosted, ence travel for scholars to present their work in Pakistan and as well as in the USA (see entering an oasis. Outside, car workshops, philosopher and singer Dr. Muhammad Jawaad, artist Salima Hashmi, website for list). The conferences being held in Pakistan were organized by Pakistani vegetable vendors, and rickshaws create a calligrapher Abdul Basit, traditional Punjabi wrestlers, among oth- scholars who in the past have been involved in AIPS supported conferences and travel. constant din. Inside, a huge garden with beds ers). Reflecting back on their experience, individual students noted: The support for these conferences has been through local Pakistani Institutions, includ- of roses and a bird aviary greet the visi- “BULPIP was a transformative educational experience”; “compared ing international travel for US and other foreign scholars to participate in the confer- tor and allow for a deep breath of fresh air. n Fall 2016, the BULPIP—AIPS Urdu Language Program hosted its to other Urdu language programs BULPIP was extremely well ences. The AIPS office in Islamabad has been of great assistance in helping with the Founded in 1962 as an intellectual meeting third batch of students in Lahore. A cohort of eight, these students organized and effective”; “my Urdu has gone from average to really logistics of the travel and post-conference visits of some of the US participants. point for members of all religious communi- Icame from a variety of departments and programs (History, Com- good; I really feel well equipped to undertake primary research work 2nd Harappa International Conference 2016: The Indus Civilization in Regional Con- ties, the Jesuit Center recently reopened its parative Literature, Visual Studies, Asian Studies, Conflict Resolution, now”; the Urdu teachers were “the best language teachers I have text, Dec. 18-20, 2016 was organized by Dr. Shahid Rajput, COMSATS, Islamabad. The doors to the public. The compound on 28 and Education Policy Studies) and institutions (Indiana University, ever had (and I have over twelve years of language training under conference was held at COMSATS Sahiwal, Punjab with a session at the Harappa Muse- Waris Road features an excellent research li- City University of New York, Georgetown, UT-Austin, UC Berkeley, my belt)”; “LUMS was a really safe and welcoming space”; “Lahore is um. The main goal of this three-day international conference was to provide a forum for brary with around 8,000 volumes (and grow- UC Irvine, Harvard, and UCLA). The students spent approximately an amazing city that I can now imagine visiting and re-visiting over the presentation and discussion of recent and innovative archaeological research on the ing) on South Asian history, Islamic Studies, fifteen weeks on the campus of theL ahore University of Manage- the years to come”; and, “the BULPIP program is a must-attend for regional context of the Indus Civilization. Specific focus was on the interaction between Religious Studies, and Christian theology. ment Sciences (LUMS) undergoing intensive Urdu language training anyone interested in Urdu, Pakistan, the Muslim experience in South the Indus and adjacent regions prior to, during and after the main urban phase of the In addition, interested readers will not only under the tutelage of the program’s highly regarded Urdu teach- Asia.” For more information about the program, please contact Ms. Indus Tradition commonly referred to as the Harappa Phase, dating to between 2600- find copies of the Quran and various Hadith ers—Faiza Saleem (who has taught in the program since its incep- Behnaz Raufi [email protected])( or visit: http://southasia. 1900 BCE. The conference brought together diverse scholars from Pakistan and other collections, but also commentary literature tion in the Fall of 2014) and Umar Anjum (who has been with the berkeley.edu/BULPIP n —Munis Faruqui, UC-Berkeley regions of the world that have expertise on archaeology of Pakistan as well as adjacent on both as well as Christian scriptures. This is regions, including Afghanistan, India, Oman, Iran, and various countries of Central Asia complemented by a collection of academic and western China. The conference was organized in collaboration with the Department journals that is constantly updated, a library of Archaeology, Government of the Punjab and the Curator Harappa Museum Harappa. with Urdu poetry and prose, and sections on The second major conference on archaeology was held at the site museum in Mo- psychology, science, and IT related topics. BULPIP-AIPS henjo-Daro, Sindh on Feb 9-11, 2017 and was supported by the National Fund for Mohen- The person behind this initiative is Father jodaro and the Ministry of Culture, Government of Sindh. This conference was organized Juan Carlos Pallardel SJ, a Peruvian Jesuit Urdu Teacher Training Program by Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari and his many colleagues, including Dr. Asma Ibrahim, of the with an academic training in Islamic Studies, State Bank of Pakistan, Museum, Karachi. It was attended by a large number of Pakistani knowledge of Arabic, Persian and Urdu, and ow in its second year, the BULPIP-AIPS Urdu Teacher Train- and foreign scholars, as well as students from universities located throughout Pakistan. several years of study and work experience ing Program hosted three Pakistan-based Urdu lecturers— One of the major goals of the conference was to raise local and international aware- in the Middle East and Africa. Father Juan NSidra Afzal (Government College for Women, Rawalpindi), ness of the site and the Indus Civilization as a whole. The organizers also launched an also regularly hosts academic events such Ahmed Atta (Government Zamindar College, Gujrat), and Inamullah important new website with software for the undeciphered Indus Script (www.mohenjo- as lectures, workshops, and conferences at Nadeem (Habib University, Karachi). They spent five weeks attend- daroonline.net). In addition to academic panels focused on the archaeology of the Indus Loyola Hall. His objective is to bring scholars ing the Summer 2016 SASLI Urdu program at the University of and Mohenjodaro, the participants were invited to an evening of music that spanned the from different backgrounds together, offer Wisconsin-Madison. As well as sitting in on Beginning and Intermedi- entire region of Pakistan where the Indus and its tributaries flow.I t was a spectacular them a space for the free and unhindered ate Urdu classes, the lecturers also had many other opportunities to event with performers from all the major provinces of Pakistan. The participants were exchange of ideas, and make resources avail- learn the latest techniques of Urdu training to non-native learners. assured of the ongoing support for archaeology and the preservation of the site of Mo- able that facilitate academic studies and re- Upon completion of the SASLI part of their program, the partici- henjodaro by officials from theM inistery of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, as well as search. However, Loyola Hall not only wants pants flew to theA ustin, Texas, where they went through a three- the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Sindh. to create an atmosphere of scholarly learn- day workshop under the guidance of Dr. Akbar Hyder (UT-Austin), Both of these important conferences provided encouragement for continuing col- ing, but also a space for personal exchange. Ms. Shahnaz Hassan (UT-Austin) and Dr. Jameel Ahmed (University laboration between Pakistan and US scholars in the study and conservation of cultural Visitors are encouraged to continue conver- of Washington-Seattle). All the participants remarked about the heritage, both tangible and intangible. AIPS should be congratulated for its role in help- sations begun in the library over a cup of tea usefulness of the summer program for their future Urdu teaching. ing these scholars interact over the past many years and its efforts in establishing a firm in the garden, amidst the smell of roses and For more information about the program, please contact Ms. Behnaz foundation for future collaborations. n —J. Mark Kenoyer chirping birds. n —Maria Magdalena Fuchs Raufi [email protected]).( n —Munis Faruqui, UC-Berkeley 12 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 13 Member News

Dean Accardi India and Paki- land rights, and this land is taken over by and local organizations. Initial questions Elizabeth Lhost He arrived as the issue of the merger Visiting Assistant Professor, stan. In addition, international developers. Their political regard how these collaborations are initi- PhD Candidate, University of Chicago of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas Connecticut College he is involved in and social representation is denied by cor- ated, how impactful they are, how their Elizabeth Lhost received an AIPS travel on the Afghan border into the Khyber Dean Accardi was awarded an AIPS Travel Digital Humani- rupt politicians, who are at work within the impact has (or has not) been measured, grant to attend the three-day conference, Pakhtunkhwa Province was generating Grant to co-present a paper with Karen ties projects, and greater political economy of capitalism. and what differences—in methodology, “Ocean of Law, II,” at Leiden University in debate in political circles and the media. Pechilis, “Engendering Bhakti Networks is the co-founder In 2016 Abdul Haque Chang presented a in outcome, in stakes—arise when the the Netherlands where she presented and in Kashmir and Tamil Nadu,” at the 45th of the Group for paper based on his research at the Annual partner institution for mainstream (com- workshopped a portion of her disserta- Annual Conference on South Asia in Experimental Anthropology Conference in Minneapolis. mercial) entertainment media is local as tion research on the circulation of Urdu- Madison. This presentation served to build Methods in the Currently, Chang’s ethnographic opposed to international. language fatwa-literature across the South a foundation for ongoing collaborative Humanities in fieldwork involves a comparative study of Asian subcontinent and Indian Ocean litto- research between Accardi and Pechilis Columbia. Sufism at the Pandanaran shrine located Maria-Magdalena Fuchs ral. During this conference, she exchanged investigating how somewhat marginalized in central Java, Indonesia, and the shrine PhD Candidate, Princeton University ideas and participated in conversations religious figures who are nonetheless per- William Belcher of Shah Abdul Latif Bhattai at Bhitshah, On March 25, 2017 Maria-Magdalena with a dynamic group of scholars work- tinent to differing sectarian, regional, and Assistant Professor of Historic Archaeology, Sindh. Chang will be affiliated in Indonesia Fuchs participated in a workshop on ing on aspects of Islamic law and history national identities may share parallel pro- University of Hawai’i—West O’ahu with Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic Uni- Muslim-Christian dialogue. On April 6-8, throughout South and Southeast Asia. This Having published an edited volume, “The cesses of gendering and reappropriation William Belcher received a domestic travel versity, Yogyakarta during the fieldwork; she presented a paper at a conference on research is part of her dissertation project Frontier Crimes Regulation: A History in to serve sociopolitical ends. Their presen- award to present his paper, “Subsistence the university is highly supportive of this religious minorities in Pakistan, organized on the paperwork of Islamic legal practice Documents” (OUP, 2013), he was invited tation raised these issues of religion and Practices in the Indus Tradition: A Fishy research and Chang’s efforts. by Professor Anushay Malik at the Lahore in nineteenth-century South Asia, which to give lectures on this subject at the politics in ways that addressed concerns Perspective,” at the 45th Annual Confer- University of Management Sciences. she will complete and defend at the Uni- University of Sargodha, for the Council of Pakistan Studies and demonstrated ence on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin. Nabeeha Chaudhary While in Lahore, she will also co-organize versity of Chicago this Spring. Lhost has of Social Sciences in Islamabad, for the how certain historical dynamics may serve This award allowed him to continue his PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin an event on interreligious dialogue with also been awarded a two-year A.W. Mellon History Department at Quaid-i-Azam Uni- parallel ends even across contentious research related to understanding the fish- After a break from work begun during Father Juan Carlos Pallardel, SJ at the postdoctoral fellowship at the University versity, and for the AIPS Center, Islamabad national boundaries, promoting continued eries of ancient Pakistan, particularly the her M.A. at the University of Washing- Jesuit Dialogue Center Loyola Hall, and of Wisconsin–Madison for the thematic for invited guests, many of whom traveled collaboration and investment in Pakistan analysis of fish remains from the archaeo- ton, Nabeeha Chaudhary geared up to Arafat Mazhar from Engage Pakistan program on “Translation, Adaptation, and from Peshawar for the talk. After some Studies among scholars who may situ- logical site of Harappa, District Sahiwal, dive back into her research on Pakistani (dates TBD). She will also be doing archi- Transplantation.” As a postdoctoral fellow, press coverage of lectures he was invited ate themselves as peripheral to the field. Punjab Province. television serials. An AIPS grant enabled val research at Gujranwala (www.dawn. she will teach courses in the undergradu- to write a piece for The Friday Times. This This presentation constitutes part of a her to present her research at the 45th com/news/1267187) where the owner, Ziy- ate Legal Studies Program and continue was published March 3 just after the Prime now-continuing collaborative comparative Abdul Haque Chang Annual Conference on South Asia in auddin Khokar, has an outstanding collec- her research and writing on the culture Minister and the Cabinet had met and project between Accardi and Pechilis and Postdoctoral Fellow, Madison, Wisconsin and allowed her to tion of Urdu journals and newspapers and and practice of Islamic law in the nine- determined on pursuing the merger. Occa- contributes to his second book project on University of Texas at Austin get valuable feedback that guided her would be delighted to have more visitors. teenth and twentieth centuries. sionally, historians have some relevant the appropriation and gendering of early Chang’s work addresses how the southern back on her journey to explore the realms perspective. Some links follow: modern figures for contemporary politics region of Sindh, Pakistan, can be stud- of entertainment television. Chaudhary’s Miriam Golden, Professor of Political Robert Nichols www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-final- in Pakistan and Kashmir. ied through anthropological and social larger research project pertains to shifting Science, UCLA, Saad Gulzar, PhD Candidate, Professor of History, Stockton University frontier/ science perspectives to understand how representations and changing identities NYU, and Luke Sonnet, PhD Student, UCLA, Robert Nichols spent the month of Febru- tribune.com.pk/story/1344530/fata-merged- Manan Ahmed the region is connected with different of women in Pakistani television serials. have received funding from the Interna- ary 2017 in Pakistan. He visited the AIPS k-p/ Assistant Professor of History, geographies of the Indian Ocean past Multiple socio-political-economic aspects tional Growth Centre-Pakistan and the Center in Islamabad and other colleagues, Columbia University and present. Using examples of environ- are to be considered to begin to under- Empirical Studies of Conflict Project based collected research material, and delivered uos.edu.pk/home/news/35huos.edu.pk/ On March 3, 2017, Manan Ahmed, Assis- mental studies and political ecology, to stand the changes that have been taking at Princeton University for a pilot study several lectures. With AIPS Pakistan Direc- tant Professor, Columbia University gave show how the ecological degradation place; some themes she explores include: aimed at improving the responsiveness by tor, Nadeem Akbar, he visited the Iqbal Uzma Z. Rizvi a seminar on “A Conquest of Pasts” at the in Sindh cannot be reduced to apolitical restrictions on fluidity between public and provincial legislators to voters. Working Institute in Islamabad and met with the Associate Professor of Anthropology Watson Institute of International & Public climate change debates. He demonstrates, private spaces, impact of global media in KP, the team is testing whether send- Chair of the Punjab HEC in Lahore. He also and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute of Affairs at Brown University. His work is through the examples of market economy, and politics on local representations and ing voters voice messages recorded by met with the first two participants of the Art and Design interested in the relationship between text, environmental martyrdom, and a growing sense of identity, censorship and state- their MPA—and potentially allowing voters AIPS PHEC community college exchange Uzma Rizvi received an AIPS Interna- space and narrative. His areas of special- need for housing in Karachi, a complex media relations, and the effects of a rapid to respond using their keypad to specific initiative, Muhammad Ijaz Butt, Govern- tional Travel Grant to attend the 8th ization include intellectual history of Islam relationship with environmental degrada- rise in consumerism. questions about spending and legislative ment College Township and Syed Muham- World Archaeological Congress (WAC) in in South and Southeast Asia; frontier- tion in which capitalism creates a double Moving forward, she intends to begin priorities—improves how rural voters eval- mad Baqir Jaffary, Government College Kyoto, Japan in August 2016, where she spaces and the city in medieval South bind for the poor population of Sindh to preliminary research on edutainment uate their representative and the workings Civil Lines. presented a paper “Intimate Landscapes: Asia; colonial and post-colonial North sustain the economic growth of the city. efforts linked to television serials, con- of democracy more generally. Sand.” This paper laid out theory related These poor people are deprived of their ducted in partnership with international to her current archaeological research on 14 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 15

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the third millennium BCE conducted in insulting Muhammad—seeks to answer this highlight of the visit was a radio program Arbab, S. (2016). “Ghani Khan: Fuchs, M. (2016). “Walking a Nichols, R. (2017). “Pashtuns.” Saeed, S. (2017) Politics of India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emir- central question: How do Pakistani Muslims she did at the school of journalism, Punjab A Postmoden, Humanist, Poet- Tightrope: The Jesuit Robert Oxford Research Encyclopedias Desecularization: Law and the ates. At the core of her presentation is an draw on dreams to justify the extra-judicial University. She hosted two social meetings philosopher.” SAGAR: A South Bütler and Muslim-Christian of Asian History. http://asianhis- Minority Question in Pakistan. explicit desire to decolonize the discipline, killings of individuals who insult Muham- bringing together a variety of faculty from Asia Research Journal: 24-63. Dialogue in Pakistan.” Islam tory.oxfordre.com New York, NY: Cambridge Uni- and to do so, she spoke of bodies as mad? This question relates to two press- Punjab University, Forman Christian College, and Christian-Muslim Relations versity Press. Asif, M. A. (2016). A Book of Nichols, R. (2017). “Charles Met- human, as geologic and as narrative: her ing concerns in contemporary Islam: 1) Lahore University of Management Studies 27(4): 439-454. Conquest: the Chachnama and calfe, Ranjit Singh, and Lahore.” use of archaeological poetics is part of a What is the relationship between dreams and Government College University in pur- Muslim Origins in South Asia. Gilmartin, D. (2015). Blood and In S.M. Hanifi,E d., Mountstuart postcolonial critique that is as much about and criminality in the imaginary of Islamic suing her interest to contribute in forming Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- Water: The Indus River Basin in Elphinstone in South Asia: decolonization as it is about destabilizing legal scholars? 2) What exceptions are an intellectual community in Lahore. She versity Press. Modern History. Oakland, CA: Pioneer of British Colonial Rule. capitalism, patriarchy and the nation. In articulated by Pakistani clerics and mystics hopes this initiative will bear results and her University of California Press. London: Hurst. addition to the paper, she organized the for reacting to the egregious ‘crime’ of colleagues at Lahore will take this initiative plenary for Indigenous Archaeologies, in insulting Muhammad? The significance of forward and develop teaching and research Ingram, B.D., Scott, J.B. & which a key focus was placed on Kalash of this research is two-fold. On the one hand, clusters based on mutually agreed on ideas Tareen, S.K., Eds. (2016). Imagin- Pakistan and a resolution passed by WAC- it provides us valuable insight into the and topics of interest. ing the Public in Modern South 8, which she helped write and present to complex relationship between the crime of She would like to thank AIPS for Asia. New York: Routledge. the Congress. Rizvi was the chair (with insulting Muhammad and the Islamic dream awarding her a fellowship that created Hirofumi Kato) for the Theme on Postco- tradition. Additionally, Mashal Saif’s focus new avenues for scholarly and community lonial experiences, Archaeological Practice on the dreams serves as an important case engagement at multiple levels for her. Tareen, A. (2017). “Revolution- and Indigenous Archaeologies. study for the unsettling of Western liberal ary Hermeneutics: Translat- assumptions regarding rationality, logic and ing the Qur’an as a Manifesto Shahnaz Rouse the centrality of the state. Thanks to AIPS’ for Revolution.” Journal of Professor of Sociology, generous funding, Saif spent the sum- Religious and Political Practice Biberman, Y. (2016). “Self- Sarah Lawrence College mer of 2016 in Pakistan and had sustained 3(1-2): 1-24. Defense Militias, Death Squads, Shahnaz Rouse is on sabbatical from Sarah engagement with multiple individuals who, Qazi, F. (2016). Secrets of the and State Outsourcing of Weinbaum, M. (2017). “Insur- Laurence College and is currently based drawing on their dreams of the Prophet, Kashmir Valley. New Delhi, Violence in India and Turkey.” gency and Violent Extremism in at the Graduate Institute for Development comment on the crime of insulting Muham- India: Pharos Media & Publish- Journal of Strategic Studies, Pakistan.” Journal of Small Wars Studies at the Lahore School of Economics. mad. These conversations have enabled ing Pvt Ltd. (2016): 1-31. Kermani, S., Farrukhi, A., and and Insurgencies 28(1): 34-56. During this time, she is editing a volume on Saif to begin answering her research ques- Marvin Weinbaum Ali, K., Ed. (2016). Centre Stage: the Economic History of Pakistan (starting tion. She will soon begin writing on her Biberman-Ocakli, Y., Gul, S., & Professor Emeritus, Gender, Politics, and Perfor- with Mughal period) with Dr. Rashid Amjad, findings and she looks forward to present- Ocakli, F. (2016). “Channeling Upcoming Publications University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign mance in South Asia. New Director of Graduate Institute of Develop- ing and publishing her work. Islam: Religious Narratives on On Friday, March 10, 2017, Marvin Wein- Delhi: Women Unlimited. by AIPS members ment Studies, Lahore School of Econom- Pakistani Television and Their baum, Director of the Middle East Insti- Flowerday, J. (in press). “Iden- ics, finishing a paper on missionaries, the Yasmin Saikia Influence on Pakistani Youth.” Khan, F. (2015). Islamic Banking tute’s Pakistan Studies Center moderated tity Matters: The Hidden Text of colonial state and education in Lahore and Professor of History, Arizona State University Asian Affairs: An American in Pakistan: Shariah-compliant an event dealing with the policy options Britain and China Over Hunza.” is hoping to contribute a chapter in the A four-month AIPS Senior Fellowship Review 43(3): 78-97. Banking and the Quest to Make for the Trump administration in Pakistan Journal of History and Culture Political Economy of Lahore, 1849-1947. allowed Yasmin Saikia an opportunity to Pakistan More Islamic. New and Afghanistan. Among the panelists was Cook, M. A. (2016). Annexation of South Asia. She is also contributing towards Research conduct archival work in Lahore and Islam- York: Routledge. Daniel Feldman, a former Obama adminis- and the Unhappy Valley: The His- Methods Seminar: qualitative methods at abad for a new book project, tentatively Flowerday, J. (in press). “State tration Special Representative for Afghani- torical Anthropology of Sindh's Lahore School of Economics. In summer, titled, “Aazdi: Middle Actors’ and Emancipa- Security and Federalizing A stan and Pakistan. In addition to events on Colonization. Leiden: Brill. she plans on investigating British Army tion From British Colonialism (1920-1940).” Pakistan the Middle East Institute hosts Non-Federal Territory: Gilgit- records in London for regiments posted in Her main sources for archival work were the scholars working on their dissertations at Baltistan.” In R. Brasher, Ed., Lahore during the Colonial period. Obaidullah Sindhi Foundation in Lahore and various universities in Pakistan who are First International Conference the National Documentation Center and the sponsored by the Higher Education Com- Ethno-Federalism in Punjab and Mashal Saif Pakistan National Archives in Islamabad. She mission in the fall and winter semesters. Beyond. Lahore: Forman Chris- Assistant Professor of Religion, completed an essay during this fellowship In November 2016 Weinbaum was on a tian College-University. Clemson University period that will appear in the August 2018 State Department sponsored speaking trip Insulting the Prophet Muhammad has often volume, Comparative Studies of South Asia, and lectured at seven universities in Pakistan garnered international headlines in the past Africa and the Middle East. and spoke at several think tanks in addition decade. This research—that lies at the inter- During her four months stay in Pakistan, to presenting a paper at a conference at section of Islamic dream interpretation and Dr. Saikia gave lectures at several univer- Government College University Lahore. n sities in Lahore and Islamabad. Another 16 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 17 AIPS Fellows and Grantees

AIPS awards fellowships and awards targeting the affluent classes.S patially, the 3) Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy 4) Uzma Rizvi canons within South Asia. Working against for research, writing, conferences, and DHA is modelled like any other high end pri- Field and Institution: History, UCLA Field and Institution: Archaeology, Pratt this grain, these minoritarian artists instead consulting at higher education institu- vate housing enclave anywhere in the world; Fellowship Project Title: Sovereignty, Sunni Legalism, Institute of Art and Design made non-figurative work the center of tions in Pakistan. Committees comprised fortified boundaries, mediterranean villas, and the Religious Culture of the Mughal Project Title: UAE Coastal Archaeological their practice, and developed alternate of a combination of AIPS officers, Execu- golf courses, shopping malls, cinemas, etc. Since 2010 AIPS has Empire Heritage Project (AUE-CAHP) modes of inquiry into art, technology and tive Committee members, and Trustees Much of this urban development is taking awarded 76 fellow- Duration of Research: 2 months Duration of Research: 3 months subjectivity. This project makes two inter- make all awards through a competitive place on the peripheries of major cities, and Destination: Islamabad, Pakistan; London, Destination: United Arab Emirates ventions. First, it challenges Western art ships to US scholars review process. In the past year, AIPS has entails the annexation and transformation UK; Delhi, India; and Istanbul, Turkey Abstract: The UAE Coastal Archaeological historical scholarship on modernism that awarded the following 36 awards. of agricultural land and villages into urban researching on Abstract: My research examines the nature and Heritage Project (UAE-CAHP) is a mul- excludes non-Western artists practicing land. To date, there has been no compre- Pakistan and/or and structure of Islamicate sovereignty in tiyear, transdisciplinary project that focuses during the decades of decolonization. And AIPS Fellowships hensive scholarly work on the expansion of second, it is within Indian historical scholar- South Asia. 46 of the seventeenth century Mughal Empire on the threshold of sand and water in the AIPS awarded long-term research fellow- the DHA in any of the major cities. How are in South Asia. I will develop a histori- United Arab Emirates. This research praxis ship that privileges figurative art within ships (2-9 months, funded by the Council of we to understand such model of military these fellowships cal narrative on the rise of Sunni legalist conducted along the coastal region of the its own history of "national" modernism. American Overseas Research Centers and led urban development? To address this were conducted in discourse, which led to jurisprudential UAE aims to gather new data (as archaeo- This project refuses the nation-state as a lacuna, my study will follow the DHA expan- legitimate boundary within which to situate AIPS unrestricted funds) during the past Pakistan. reforms and the compilation of the impe- logical and ethnographic material) as year. Due to security restrictions, applicants sion in the South-East of Lahore in order rial legal code, Al-fatawa al-‘alamgiriyya or well as reconsider existing data (museum these artists and instead looks at metropol- who are US citizens are required to conduct to illuminate the speculative dimension of “The Institutions of the World Conqueror” collections, newspapers, and publications). itan aesthetic production across the three long-term fellowships in countries other such forms of urbanization; the economic, in the 1660s. Legal reform rationalized civil This project incorporates geomorphology, countries, as evocative of alternate notions than the US and Pakistan. Non-US citizen political and legal strategies adopted by the its bearer with a vast set of other govern- law for different religious subject popula- landscape survey, ethnographic practices, of belonging. It argues that these abstract applicants, however, can conduct research military to practice urban development; the ment and corporate databases. NADRA’s tions like Hindus, Sunni and Shi‘a Mus- critical heritage discourse, contemporary artists from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India in Pakistan or in countries other than the US. conflictual alliances they forge with other significance lies in its ubiquity: the card lims. Questioning the prevalent historio- art and archaeological poetics. At the core were synthesizing local and regional aes- These awards have been extremely compet- classes and state functionaries; and the is used for banking, paying bills, school graphical position, which attributes these of this project is the desire to contextual- thetic practices, while also sampling from a itive, and AIPS is pleased to announce the consequences of these transformations on admissions, acquiring a cell phone chip, changes to the Mughal emperor Aurang- ize the many relationships between the complex inheritance of colonial modernity, recently awarded fellows. Full abstracts and the local communities, specifically the small property transactions, voting and weap- zeb’s (r. 1658–1707) “Islamic orthodoxy” UAE and Pakistan/Northern India through Islamic art and architectural modernism. final reports for all fellows can be accessed land holding peasantry, upon whose land ons licenses. The NADRA card is a central and conservative policies, I hypothesize time, to theorize the concept of a “coast” By placing these artists within a broader on the AIPS website (www.pakistanstudies- these housing projects are being built. preoccupation for Pashtun migrants in instead that the political rivalries between as a threshold, which has the capacity to regional framework and also articulating aips.org/content/fellowship-archives). urban locations. Through multi-sited eth- Sunni legal authorities, networks, and insti- engender forms of marginal subject posi- their aesthetic engagements and intellec- 2) Zehra Hashmi nographic fieldwork in Pashtun neighbor- tutions played a significant role in pushing tionality, and the impact such a position tual thought within Indo-Persianite tradi- 1) Ateeb Ahmed Field and Institution: Anthropology and hoods and NADRA’s institutional sites, this for state intervention. The systematiza- makes on subsequent aesthetic forms and tions, this project proposes a transnational Field and Institution: Geography, Environ- History, University of Michigan research will address three broad aims: tion of law for the first time transformed critical heritage discourse. Key concepts and transdisciplinary methodology towards ment and Society, University of Minnesota Project Title: Biometric Belonging: Kinship, 1) How and to what extent do NADRA’s the Mughal State from a more flexible that drive the project include: mobility, decolonized global art history. Project Title: Between Speculation and Identification andS ecurity in Urban Pakistan biometric identification technologies Turko-Persian entity it inherited from the fluidity, cosmopolitanism, threshold, coasts, Dispossession: Pakistan Military’s Urban Duration of Research: 2 months transform Pashtun experiences, notions Delhi Sultanate into a regionalized empire gulfs, critical heritage, and aesthetics. 6) Neelum Sohail Coup d’etat Destination: Islamabad, Pakistan and practices of kinship? 2) In what ways under greater centralized control. Examin- Field and Institution: Modern South Asian Duration of Research: 2 months Abstract: This study will investigate does incorporation into and exclusion from ing a large corpus of Persian and Arabic 5) Sadia Shirazi History, Tufts University Destination: Lahore, Pakistan the manner and means by which Paki- NADRA’s databases shape daily practices, legal and political texts, which have been Field and Institution: Art History, Cornell Project Title: Empires of the Beat: Abstract: Just a few months after tak- stan’s biometric identity card system, especially for the ethnically marginalized understudied, I wish to demonstrate how University Policing the Empire, Governing the Colony, ing power through a Coup d'état, General the National Database and Registra- in urban space, affect mobility and access the Mughal polity increasingly constituted Project Title: Abstraction in Post-Indepen- Negotiating the Postcolony Musharaff established the Defence Housing tion Authority (NADRA), moves from a to housing, education and government itself as a “body-politic” in Islamic jurispru- dence Pakistan, Bangladesh and India Duration of Research: 2 months Authority (DHA), a gated residential and security-oriented identification system services? 3) How are NADRA’s day to day dential terms. My study offers a regional Duration of Research: 3 months Destination: Karachi & Lahore, Pakistan; commercial housing society, through an into a broader regime shaping domains operations shaped by Pashtun encoun- history of legal cultures in three provinces, Destination: Spain and the UK and London, Oxford, & Cambridge, UK executive order that remains effective to of social life in Pakistan outside the realm ters with NADRA, and what does this Lahore, Kashmir, and Bihar, to illustrate the Abstract: This project explores the largely Abstract: By focusing on the development date. This put the DHA in a state of excep- of security. NADRA began in 2000 by reveal about Pakistan’s governance and conflicts, differences, and particularities unexamined history of abstraction and of policing in Sindh and Punjab, provinces tion, legally and spatially, since it allowed the launching a multi-biometric (fingerprints, security practices? Thus, this project will of local legal systems within the Mughal transnational modernism in post-inde- of colonial India and later post-colonial DHA to function beyond the jurisdictions of facial, and iris recognition) electronic develop an understanding of historically Empire. I also critically reassess the status pendence in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, in the 1840s and the movement of the municipal Lahore Development Author- identity card and claims to be one of constituted connections between kinship, and characteristics of early modern Islamic India. It focuses on key artists in all three policing practices and personnel across the ity (LDA), and the City District Government the largest centralized databases in the biometrics, security practices, and the law through the comparative legal history countries who were part of the modernist British Empire to Hong Kong and Kenya in (CDG) since 2001. Backed by such powers, world, hosting data from over 96 mil- status of ethnic minorities as they crys- of Mughal and Ottoman States, which art movement but who, due to their use of the mid 19th century and early 20th century, the DHA has become the largest residential lion citizens. Each ID record has its own talize into a networked, state-organized shared similar features. abstraction, proved difficult to synthesize this project contends that policing was not housing society in Pakistan within a decade unique identifying number that connects infrastructure. into figurative, modernist art historical simply coercion and domination from above, through speculative place construction 18 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 19

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it was also governance from below. I suggest AIPS Summer Fellowship 7. Luke Sonnet 4. William Belcher 10. Jeffrey Diamond that the history of modern policing in the Grantees 2017 Field and Institution: Political Science, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu Clarion University University of California, Los Angeles Conference colony is an account of managing the dis- Since 2012 AIPS has been able to offer 45th Annual Conference on South Asia 2017 Association of Asian Studies Project: The Causes and Effects of posability of colonial subjects while actively short-term research travel grants/summer travel October 2016 Conference Electricity Load Shedding in Pakistan constructing the frontiers of human ontolo- research grants. This year AIPS short-tem/ grant Paper: Subsistence Practices in the Indus Paper: Building a New “Paradise”: gies of race, gender, and class that were summer research grants are funded by AIPS Tradition: A Fishy Perspective Anjumans and Urdu Literary Culture in vital to the colonial project at the level of the unrestricted funds, to allow scholars to do AIPS Advising Travel Grants Late Nineteenth Century India beat, the territory a police officer patrolled. preliminary and/or exploratory research Through a grant from the US Embassy in Since 2010 AIPS 5. Elizabeth Bolton It studies citizenship, race, class, and gender in Pakistan. Abstracts and final reports for Pakistan, AIPS was able to fund travel to has awarded 115 University of Texas at Austin 11. Joel Gordon across colonies of the British Empire through 45th Annual Conference on South Asia University of Arkansas, Fayetteville these projects can be found on the AIPS Pakistan by scholars from US universities as Conference Travel the analytic of policing connecting several website (www.pakistanstudies-aips.org). advisors for specific programs atP akistani October 2016 Cinema and Transnationalism in Pakistan areas of African, East Asian, and Pakistan universities. This year, AIPS funded one advi- Grants (67 domestic Paper: The Power of Place: Community and South Asia: Regional Histories Confer- 1. Abdul Aijaz studies with the field ofS outh Asian history. sor, who has gone to Pakistan twice in 2016 and Newswork at Lahore’s City42 Channel ence Field and Institution: Geography and 48 international) Thus, my project aims to provide a new to advise COMSATS on the redesign of their September 2016 and English, Indiana University to US scholars perspective on histories of, and debates Architecture and Design Program. 6. Waqas H. Butt Paper: Movie Stars without Borders: Fash- around, citizenship, race, class, and gender Project: Post-colonial Indus River Hydro- presenting their University of California, San Diego ioning National Identity in Regional Studios/ Hasan-Uddin Khan in Pakistan through a multidisciplinary and social Relations paper(s) at scholarly Politics of Waste Conference Regional Identity in National Studios multi-locational study of the creation and Field and Institution: Architecture and June 2017 legal codification of colonial policing forces, 2. Salman A. Hussain Design Faculties, Roger Williams University conferences through- Paper: Legitimacy as Fetish: Documenting 12. Saad Gulzar the debates around policing practices, the Field and Institution: History and Pakistan Institution: COMSATS Institute of out the world. 30 of Work in Lahore’s Waste Infrastructure New York University Information Technology daily reports and memoirs of various police- Anthropology, University of Michigan the 48 International American Political Science Association men, court cases, the rise of labor and crime Project: Transnational Migrations to 7. Christopher Candland Annual Meeting in Philadelphia statistics as well as the popular image of the the Gulf in Sahiwal, Pakistan AIPS Conference Travel Grants Conference Grants Wellesley College September 2016 policeman as seen in newspapers and novels AIPS awards travel grants to help facilitate were awarded for Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan- Paper: Politicians: Experimental Evidence roughly between 1840 and 1970. 3. Sidra Kamran its members’ participation in international presenting papers Afghanistan Borderland on Candidacy Field and Institution: Sociology, or domestic conferences, or for invited August–September 2016 7) Shundana Yusaf The New School lectures in Pakistan. These grants are at conferences in Paper: The Purpose of Government, Manu- 13. Faris Ahmed Khan Field and Institution: Architectural History, Project: Commodification of Intimate funded in part by CAORC, US Embassy Pakistan. facture of Legitimacy, and Violence of the Brandeis University University of Utah Practices and the Construction of the in Pakistan and AIPS unrestricted funds. State Conflict Transformation in Pakistan Feminist Pre-Conference to the 45th Annual Project Title: The Resonant Tomb: Sufi 'Economy’ and ‘Markets’ by Focusing on Abstracts and final reports orf these Conference on South Asia Shrines in the Indo-Persian World All-female Workplace projects can be found on the AIPS website 2. Dean Accardi 8. Abdul Haque Chang October 2016 Duration of Research: 4 months (www.pakistanstudies-aips.org). Connecticut College University of Texas at Austin Paper: Khwaja Sira: Dissent, Sex/Gender Destination: India and Iran 4. Tariq L. Rahman 45th Annual Conference on South Asia 115th Annual Meeting of the American Activism, and State Regulation in Pakistan Field and Institution: Anthropology, US-Based Scholar awarded for Abstract: A four-month AIPS Senior October 2016 Anthropological Association University of California, Irvine domestic and international grants Research Fellowship for US citizens in Paper: Engendering Bhakti Networks in November 2016 14. Alizishaan Khatri Project: Plots, Speculation, and Capital Abstracts and final reports for these Summer 2017 will allow me to conduct Kashmir and Tamil Nadu Papers: Rethinking the Question of University of Buffalo in Urban Pakistan projects can be found on the AIPS website fieldwork on the architectural context Fisherman through Gutka Piety 45th Annual Conference on South Asia (www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/content/ of these auditory rituals and practices in 3. Abdul Aijaz October 2016 5. Zoya Sameen travel-grant-archives). India and Iran. This work will complement Indiana University 9. Nabeeha Chaudhary Paper: The Ethics of Digital Humanities Field and Institution: History, research done on a Fulbright Scholar- 1. Hassan Abbas Annual Conference of Association University of Texas at Austin Approaches to Cultural Studies: A Per- University of Chicago ship in Pakistani Sufi shrines with short National Defense University of American Geographers 45th Annual Conference on South Asia spective from Computer Science Project: The Consumption of Prostitution: trips to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan in Fall State, Society and Democracy in the Post- April 2017 October 2016 A History of Buying Sex in the Northwest- 2017. These two pieces will come together colony Conference Paper: Reconfigurations of Interests and Paper: “This is Where You Belong”­— 15. Elizabeth Lhost ern Indian Subcontinent, 1858–1918 constituting a regional exploration of Sufi August 2016 Identities: Symbolic Politics of Pak-China Shifting Representations of the Ideal University of Chicago soundscapes in Indo-Persian world, trun- Paper: Sectarianism & Internal Security: Economic Corridor and Pakistani Federation Woman in Pakistani TV Serials from the Ocean of Law II 6. Gemma Sharp cated today into modern nation states. The How the State-Society Nexus was 1980’s to the Present December 2016 Field and Institution: Art History, City Uni- AIPS Fellowship will enable me to expand Reconfigured in the Post-Zia Era Paper: Mapping Legal Authority in the Indian versity of New York, The Graduate Center the lens on Sufi khanqahs in Pakistan and Ocean: The Geography of 19th and 20th Project: The International Lives of Pakistani put their auditory rituals in a cross-cultural century Fatwa Literature from South Asia Art: 1947-2001 and transnational context. 20 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 21 AIPS Fellows Institutional and Grantees Member News

16. Nadia Loan 19. Osama Rehan Siddiqui 2. Anjum Tanveer University of Michigan University of Oregon Cornell University Location: 45th Annual Conference on South The University of Michigan (UM) was Association of Asian Studies in-Asia 45th Annual Conference on South Asia Asia and Princeton’s Hindi/Urdu pleased to enhance its ties with Pakistani Conference October 2016 Conference on Literature and Politics institutions this past year, though MOUs June 2016 Paper: The Enchantment of Political Sponsoring Institution in the U.S.: signed with Habib University and the La- Paper: The Quran Workbook: Materiality Economy: Wealth and its Sciences in Princeton University hore University of Management Sciences and Devotion in Contemporary Pakisan Colonial India Affiliated Institution in Pakistan: (LUMS). The MOUs help pave the way for Iqra University students from these institutions to spend a 17. Carla Petievich Pakistan-based Scholar October 2016 semester at UM. We are expecting our first University of Texas at Austin International Travel Support batch of students from these institutions Annual Conference of Association of AIPS offers travel grants to AIPS member this summer, and look forward to more in American Geographers institution faculty to bring Pakistan-based the years to come. As circumstances allow, April 2017 scholars to the US: we also hope to send UM undergraduates Paper: Notes on the Multiple Locations of to Habib and LUMS. 1. Saeed Shafqat Modern Punjabi Literature UM continues to be a hub for the study Locations: Academic Engagements at of Pakistan in the US. Anchored by faculty numerous universities in North Carolina 18. Uzma Rizvi who work on Pakistan (William J. Glover, Sponsoring Institution in the US: Wake The NAPA, NCA and Butler School of Music “ensemble” performing at the Pakistan Day Pratt Institute of Art and Design Matthew Hull, and Farina Mir), UM sup- Forest University celebrations at the Pakistani Consul General’s residence in Houston. World Archaeological Congress ports the work of graduate students work- Affiliated Institution in Pakistan: August–September 2016 ing on Pakistan (currently we have two Lahore and National Academy of Perform- and received a favorable review in the local Forman Christian College University Paper: Archaeologies of Emotion and PhD students whose research focuses on ing Arts (NAPA) in Karachi, SAI hosted press (East, West and music, Dawn Metro, August 2016 Emotional Archaeologies Pakistan: Zehra Hashmi and Salman Adil batches of students at UT for a semester in January 7, 2017). The second performance Hussain, both in the Program in Anthropol- Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. NAPA students took place in Islamabad on January 8, 2017 ogy and History). UM has also instituted an spent a semester at the Butler School of and the third at the US Consulate in Karachi annual conference on Pakistan. In 2016, we Music, while NCA students studied various on January 10, 2017. hosted the 6th UM-Pakistan Conference aspects of film-making at theD epartment of Back in the US, the Pakistan Consulate in on Infrastructure. In 2017, we hosted the Radio-Television-Film at the Moody School Houston invited SAI and Pakistani exchange 7th UM-Pakistan Conference, on “Gender of Communication. In January 2017, three students at UT for the Spring semester, to & Sexuality.” AIPS generously supported Sangat concerts took place in Pakistan. San- participate in Pakistan Day celebrations on both conferences. —Farina Mir gat is an ensemble of NAPA and UT music March 23, 2017. Two NAPA students and one summer students and UT music faculty, who perform NCA student along with two UT students The University of Texas at Austin a raga-based fusion of classical, folk and and a member of the Butler School of Music research In Spring 2017, in partnership with AIPS, Western music. The first event was held in faculty traveled to Houston with SAI staff grant the South Asia Institute at the University Karachi at NAPA’s in-house theater on Janu- and performed at the concert at the Consul of Texas at Austin hosted three scholars ary 6, 2017. The concert was well attended, General’s residence. n —Sahar Ali Over the years AIPS from Pakistan who were chosen to study the community college system in the US has awarded 45 in order to emulate it in their own institu- Short-term/Summer tions in Pakistan. (See page 7 for more on Research Grants to US this program. Another scholar who visited Austin in scholars conducting Spring 2017 under the AIPS-SAI partner- their research in ship, was Faiza Saleem. Faiza, who is a Pakistan. Urdu language instructor for BULPIP in Pakistan, spent her time shadowing Urdu language faculty at UT in order to be trained in teaching Urdu to students en- rolled in the intensive immersion program in Pakistan every Fall. Under continuing university partnerships with the National College of Arts (NCA) in 22 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 23

Institutional New AIPS institutional members Member News Stanford University The Center for South Asia at Stanford started as a proper center in the Fall of 2010 and we have in the past years been through a process of rapid growth and develop- ment, including recruitment of faculty and post docs in a number of fields. Initially we did not have faculty working in Pakistan, although we had a good number of University of Wisconsin-Madison son’s International Division and comprises stani teachers who can work with foreign at the University of faculty interested in broader questions of Muslim culture and history in South Asia. In November 2016 UW-Madison hosted the area studies centers at the UW–Madi- students who are second language learners. Karachi and is the Along with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, we ran a joint post-doctoral pro- 160 Fulbright scholars from Pakistan for son.—Lalita Du Perron This program can build capacity in Pakistani founder of the Vasl gram on “Muslim Literary Cultures of South Asia” for some years. a three-day orientation focused on social institutes to be able to offer courses in Urdu Artists’ Collective, In 2017 we had the good fortune to be able to recruit Saad Gulzar, a young dynamic movements in the US. for foreigners and second language learners. a vital organization that supports artists political scientist working on Pakistan. Saad has kindly agreed to serve as our represen- The Institute of International Education’s Ms. Afzal is observing beginning, inter- through residencies, workshops and col- tative on the AIPS board. His partner, Maira Hayat, a prior AIPS Fellow and Conference (IIE) Fulbright Pakistan Orientation Semi- mediate and advanced Hindi and Urdu laborations in a regional network. Travel Grantee, is finishing her dissertation on water and environment in theD epart- nar brought together the Pakistani master’s classes, where she is witnessing different Bani Abidi was one of the early artists ment of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She will be affiliated as a post-doc and PhD students, who are currently study- teaching techniques and learning environ- to begin working with video and per- for three years with the Department of Anthropology and the Woods Institute for the ing at universities across the US as part of a ments. formance, producing iconic works like Environment, Stanford’s hub for research on global environmental questions. two-year program supported by the US De- This summer UW will host a four-day Mangoes (1999), Shan Pipe Band Learns Some years earlier, we recruited Dr. Ryan Perkins, a specialist in Urdu and Pashto partment of State. The seminar focused on intensive workshop with Ms. Afzal and the Star Spangled Banner (2003), and The literature and the Muslim public in colonial India, as our South Asia librarian. Perkins, US social movements, particularly #Black- one other teacher who will be shadow- Ghost of Mohammad Bin Qasim (2006). who is working with AIPS on a library/digital archiving workshop series in Pakistan, LivesMatter, along with other issues in the ing teachers at the South Asia Summer is engaged in a major effort to bring Stanford’s library holdings in South Asia up to nation, such as marriage equality. University of Washington, Seattle Language Institute in Wisconsin.—Keith Wake Forest University a standard that befits a major research university. “UW-Madison is an ideal location for The University of Washington (UW) is hap- Snodgrass Funded through a grant from the US Em- Scholars associated with Center for South Asia, the Abbasi program and other this seminar to take place,” said Lalita du py to be hosting Ms. Sidra Afzal, currently bassy in Pakistan, AIPS supported lectures units at Stanford University have been associated with the Habib University in Karachi Perron, Associate Director of the Center of Islamabad, as an AIPS Teaching Urdu by Professor Saeed Shafqat. The intention since 2013. Today, Stanford has an agreement with Habib that encompasses exchange for South Asia and Director and organizer as a Second Language fellow. Ms. Afzal of this grant was to facilitate intellectual of students at all levels, including summer programs at Stanford, a visiting scholar of the seminar. “We have over 50 years teaches Urdu as a foreign language at In- exchanges between the US and Pakistan. program that allows faculty and writing up students form both schools to spend time of experience teaching and researching ternational Islamic University in Islamabad, The grant provided travel support for at either institution. The agreement will also help Stanford scholars beginning new the languages and cultures of South Asia and is an Urdu lecturer in the Government invited scholars (as well as artists and musi- work in Pakistan acquire an institutional home and contacts within the government. including Pakistan, and our campus is Post-Graduate College in Rawalpindi, and cians) from Pakistan to travel to the United CSA hopes to see this collaboration flourish in the future and we envisage a invested in creating a truly inclusive atmo- she earned a Master’s Degree in Urdu from States. As an invited scholar, Professor steady stream of students and faculty visiting both institutions. Professors Thomas sphere and climate for students.” Punjab University, Lahore. Saeed Shafqat, the Director of Forman Blom Hansen and Nadeem Hussain (Philosophy) undertook a more formal and com- The seminar included a keynote ad- She has participated in other Urdu Christian College’s Centre for Public Policy prehensive review of Habib’s teaching program and structure in February 2017. It is dress on marriage equality by Professor teaching workshops at the University of and Governance in Lahore, came to the US our hope that our report will be useful to the future development of the university. Emeritus Joe Elder, lectures and interac- Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Brown University in August 2016 to present multiple lectures The scholars associated with the Center for South Asia at Stanford are all excited tive workshops by UW-Madison Professors Texas, Austin. She has produced her own On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, Naiza Khan and in the United State over a period of two about joining the larger scholarly community within the AIPS. Our membership will Chris Walker, Bridget Fielder, and Faisal Urdu teaching trainings in Pakistan. Bani Abidi two most prominent multi-media to three weeks. Presentations were held in help connect our faculty and students to the wider network of scholarship on Pakistan Abdu-allah, and opportunities for peer stu- During her internship at the University of artists from Pakistan gave the Roger B. Winston-Salem, NC, and Washington, D.C. in the US and we hope to see our graduate students and faculty participate actively in dent interaction. The First Wave Learning Washington, Ms. Afzal hopes to learn new Henkle Memorial Lecture on ‘The Disap- In addition, he gave a talk at the Carolina conferences, events and language training in Pakistan. We also plan to promote Paki- Community was actively involved through teaching techniques, particularly language preance of Things/The City as Archive” at Asia Center titled: "Perceptions, Realities stan more systematically on campus as an area in its own right, in our teaching as well performance and discussion groups. teaching done differently than is now done the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at and the Changing Dynamics of US-Pakistan as being visible on the research agendas of faculty and graduate students. Graduate students from the Department of in Pakistan. In her opinion, most language Brown University. Their work on the city Relations.” The talk focused on multiple We also look forward to hosting and facilitating events, speakers and activities Counseling Psychology under the guidance teachers in Pakistan teach their students as of Karachi interrogates both the sensory dimensions of the U.S.-Pakistan relation- connected with AIPS here on the Stanford campus. of Professor Stephen Quintana facilitated though they are children. She likes to use scale of the South Asian city, as well as its ship as well as its changing contours and small-group sessions with the Fulbright technology in the classroom, and also Paki- historical and political conflicts.A tumultu- possible future directions. This invited Brown University scholars to reflect on life in theUS . stan’s highly admired television serials. ous city by the sea confronting the disasters speaker was co-sponsored by three AIPS The newly established Center for Contemporary South Asia (CCSA) is based at “Being selected by the IIE to host this The foreign students in her classroom of climate change, a city shaped by historic member institutions: North Carolina Central the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. CCSA seminar is a great honor,” said Guido Po- in Pakistan are mostly Chinese and Korean, displacements and facing continuous migra- University, Wake Forest University, and the promotes research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South destá, vice provost and dean of the Inter- who take Urdu because they are doing tions, a city that routinely erupts in violence, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. n Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded national Division. “This is an opportunity translation studies or doing social work in both with its pasts and over competing manner. CCSA supports faculty, graduate and undergraduate research and teaching not only to share information on social Pakistan. In addition, some who work for resources—these artists take on the city as on the region and is home to the South Asian Studies concentration. In conjunction movements in the US, but also to engage their home governments are encouraged few others have, and provide a kind of criti- with greater efforts at the Watson Institute, CCSA seeks to define a new approach in a dialogue on cultural and ethical issues to study Urdu to better relate to Pakistan- cal, ethical and satirical commentary that to regional studies for the 21st century. Anchored in the social sciences, this new ap- on a global scale.” is. These language learners tend to prefer may make us rethink it again. proach is problem driven, comparative and multidisciplinary. Our multidiciplinarity The Center for South Asia, a Title VI to learn in a government university. Naiza Khan, taught for many years at will include sustained interaction of social scientists with the humanities on the one National Resource Center, is a member of Ms. Afzal is working with UW Senior the Indus School of Art and Architecture hand and the disciplines such as medicine and public health on the other. CCSA is an the Institute for Regional and International Urdu lecturer, Jameel Ahmad, who said that in Karachi. She continues to serve on the expansion of the Brown-India Initiative; we look forward to participating in AIPS and Studies (IRIS). IRIS is a part of UW–Madi- BULPIP wants to build a cadre of Paki- board of the Department of Visual Studies other regional institute given this new expanded mission. n 24 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 25 AIPS President’s Report Cont’d from page 2 News

AIPS Book Prize Funding Opportunities for 4) Pakistan Lecture Series (PLS) will spend 2-3 weeks each at selected US AIPS is pleased to announce the 2015-16 Book Prize winner, David AIPS Member Institutions: PLS is a program designed to support Community Colleges. Faculty and adminis- academic exchange between Pakistani and trators from the US community colleges will Gilmartin, author of Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in The AIPS grants below are open to faculty US scholars and to promote the field of also travel to Lahore during the exchange Modern History. The Book Prize committee highly praised Pro- from any AIPS Member Institution. A Pakistan studies as a whole. As a part of this period to lead a training course for a group fessor Gilmartin’s book as a major contribution to the study of scholarly committee reviews all applica- program a Pakistani scholar, artist, musi- of selected degree college faculty in Punjab. colonial state formation, environmental history and the settle- tions. To apply for a grant, please contact cian, etc, is invited to travel to the USA for We hope that the Punjab Ministry of Higher ment of colonial frontiers. Blood and Water expands the scope [email protected] for further two to four weeks and present lectures at a Education on reviewing the results of this of Pakistan Studies and South instructions. Blood and Water Asian studies by highlight- minimum of three US AIPS member institu- pilot project will consider upscaling the tions. AIPS members or member institutions entire project to include the 700+ degree ing the great transformations 1) Publication and Library Development is a major nominate PLS speakers. Each institution is colleges in the province. The first batch of initiated by canal irrigation Funding (up to $3,000) is available for small expected to pay local travel expenses and is three degree college Principals from Multan, contribution to and the implications of these grants related to publication and library de- funded through grants from CAORC and the Lahore and Gujranawala (two men and one the study of colonial projects for contemporary velopment. These small grants are intended Government of Pakistan. woman) spent 2-3 weeks at Austin Commu- politics, including within Paki- to be seed money for larger programs. A state formation, nity College this Spring. stan and the trans-boundary proposal should explain the budget, and if it 5) Conference in Pakistan in collaboration So, to reiterate, AIPS’s finances are environmental water disputes between India is part of a larger project, how the entirety with a Public University in excellent shape, our core mission of history, and the and Pakistan. His research is of project will be funded and sustained. In AIPS has funds to support a collaborative providing avenues for research in Pakistan prodigious and the culmination addition, the proposal should address how settlement of workshop with a public university in Paki- to US based scholars is being seriously of several decades of related the project will make materials accessible to stan using the theme of deepening demo- addressed, we have expanded our goals colonial frontiers. research and scholarly reflec- Pakistan Studies scholars. tion. Competing visions of cratic values and emphasizing diversity, of building scholarly capacity of junior tolerance, and co-existence. The budget can faculty in Pakistani universities in a variety statecraft and political community are explored in relation to the 2) Course Development Grant fund travel for US-based scholars or can be of disciplines and we are encouraging the continuing power of nature to shape the Indus basin. This book is Course development seed money for a used to assist a university in organizing a new generation of Pakistan scholars in the an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Pakistan and broader South Asia/Pakistan course, working in col- conference/workshop. This workshop must US in their research. This said, the most issues of state development and the environment. In addition to laboration with a Minority-Serving Institu- be collaborative. This award (up to $5,500) important issue that AIPS as an organiza- making original contribution to the study of British India and Paki- tion. These funds are meant to support the is funded through a grant from CAORC. tion will face in the coming months (and stan, Blood and Water is going to be a major reference point for stipend for a graduate student who could perhaps years) is the uncertainty of our environmental historians, political scientists and anthropologists teach such a course. These awards (up to 6) Conference in Pakistan in collaboration funding streams. Within this scenario, we for many years to come. n $4,000) are funded through grants from with a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) have to be extremely vigilant regarding our the Department of Education and CAORC. AIPS currently has seed money to organize finances and expenditures. Yet, due to the a workshop or conference at a Pakistani EC and elected members working closely 3) Program Support for a Workshop/ university. A requirement of this award is in the past several years, there has been Conference on Pakistan in the US that you invite or collaborate with at least cross training, transparency, the maturing AIPS 2016-17 Elections Results AIPS has funds (up to $4,500) to support one individual working at a Minority-Serving of oversight procedures and openness of a Pakistan-related conference that will Institution or Community College located dialogue and discussion. Given this history, I Executive Committee Matthew A. Cook (North Carolina Central University) was elected to the AIPS take place in the US. These funds may be in the United States. This award (up to am confident that our new leadership will be Vice President seat, replacing Farina Mir on October 1, 2016. Similarly, election for two EC Members was used to support airfare and other direct $6,000) is funded through a grant from the more than capable in finding creative and conducted in the summer of 2016 and Iqbal Singh Sevea (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and conference expenses. This award is funded Department of Education and is for a con- productive solutions for the future health of Frank Korom (Boston University) were elected. Congratulations to these three AIPS members! Their terms through a grant from CAORC. ference to take place in the next fiscal year the organization. will run through September 30, 2019. (October 1, 2017-September 30, 2018). n I thank each and every one of you for At-Large Trustees Due to increasing membership rolls, we added two new seats to the your support, advice and encouragement At-Large membership, bringing the total of At-Large Trustees to eight. AIPS is currently in the past six years. My special thanks to conducting an election for four At-Large Trustee seats. our two directors, Laura Hammond and Nadeem Akbar, and their staff. Their dedi- AIPS will be running an election for a new President during Presidential Election cation, hard work and tireless effort makes Spring/Summer 2017. Our sincere thanks to outgoing President Kamran Asdar Ali for his all this possible. dedicated service to AIPS as its president! The new President's term will begin October 1, 2017. Thanks to Mattew Cook, AIPSV P, and AIPS staff members Laura Hammond and Aastha Ranabhat for editorial assistance on this newsletter. Thank you. Best Wishes.

Newsletter design: Hammond Design, Ann Arbor Kamran 26 american institute of pakistan studies 2017 newsletter 27 In Memoriam: Intizar Husein (1925-2016) By Kamran Asdar Ali

new space by a group that has left its an- tive of cataclysmic events like Partition. It cestral land, with all its trials, tribulations dwells on how we remember through the and pleasures. Yet, for him the catastroph- senses… sight, smell, sound… that trigger ic aspects of Partition with its destruction forgotten lands, events, times, pleasures and dislocation also undermined norma- and sorrows. In constructing this argument, tive values and loosened moral strictures. Husein’s writing enters a much broader The violence of the mid-1940s in South canvas that attempts to understand an Asia hence created opportunities for many individual’s travel through time and space; to rethink past certainties and generate the nightingale’s singing, the sight of a tree, visions for a new future; as we see the snakes crossing paths or the smell of mon- protagonists in his works break away from soon rain, all can trigger a past that one has the social restrictions and the weight of lived and experienced. In this sense, nature traditions that binds them. The newness too, with all its diversity, matters to Intizar of the country hence also meant a certain Husein in its intimate and intertwined rela- democratization where age-old customs tionship to humans. and taboos could be broken and social Finally, by juxtaposing of memory with station could be contested. history, Initizar Husein hints at larger ques- tions of who are we, where have we come usein’s creative voice was con- from, what is our future. These queries of stantly evolving. In many of his self-examination offer a critique of domi- Hworks, Intizar Husein uses idiom- nant history that fixes meanings through atic prose, the ganga jamni invocations its own deterministic trajectories. Through peppered with long-forgotten proverbs, He takes us into the realm the use of allegory and older techniques riddles and literary allusions. Yet, he also of storytelling (dastan goi) we find in him experimented with the Urdu short story of individual memories a sense of cyclical time as his characters form and introduced new subject matter that undermine the while inhabiting the present, their affective to re-invigorate it. His short stories from nationalistic narrative and sensorial experiences also make them the 1970s, Hindustan se ek Khatt, Kachve, part of the long human tradition of mobil- Shehr-i-Afsos, Aakhri Admi stand out as of cataclysmic events ity and travel. masterpieces of in Urdu prose as he in- like Partition. A master storyteller, Intizar Husain troduced new aesthetics in narrative style introduces us to the apocalyptic and de- while providing a critical commentary on structive aspects of our present condition, the violent events of 1971 and the kind of yet his stories from various and diverse ntizar Husein, in an informal gathering ries, columns, essays and novels are a gift opposition to those who may have lived people Pakistanis had become. traditions that make up the Muslim experi- once said to me that Delhi sent two to us all, and in them we find the thoughts, only a few miles away in British India. So, Hence, Intizar Husein’s larger oeuvre ence in South Asia also offer a different things to Pakistan (after partition), dreams, trepidations and pleasures of a we get an intimate understanding of what cannot merely be read within the tropes sense of history with its own regenerative one an acclaimed intellectual (who generation that has been leaving us in the it means to be from Aligarh, or Buland- of Partition literature or for that matter as power. He, therefore, provides a vision of Iwill remain unnamed) and the second, past decade. Born in 1925, Intizar Husain shahr, or Meerut, or Lucknow, or from a a form of “nostalgia” (howsoever defined). rejuvenation and rebuilding that links the Nihari. Intizar Saheb maintaind that “woh received his BA and MA from Meerut Col- small qasbah in the Oudh region (but these Rather his writings have a more universal past, present and future in a continuum sahib to nahin chale, par Nihari chal pari” lege in the mid 1940s, before he migrated can be stories from any part of South Asia tone linked to the dilemmas of displace- of human practice and experience that (that person did not succeed, but Nihari to Pakistan in 1947. The composite political as the underlying message is about how ment, of a diasporic existence, of an experi- makes his writings so essential for us at kept on going). He forgot that among the category of being a mohajir (or migrant) in the emphasis on difference is intrinsic to ence of rootlessness and vagrancy that one this present juncture of our collective many that crossed the border in those Pakistan notwithstanding, Intizar Husein’s the processes of identity formation). inhabits, once one leaves “home.” A crucial social and cultural impasse. n fateful autumn months of 1947, another many texts introduces readers to differ- Intizar Husein’s sojourns into the question that his writings raise is about NOTE: AIPS co-sponsored the publica- person who came from Diplai in UP “kept ences within this group. Relying on the use specifics of the migration experience has how we remember, for what purposes, who tion of Story is a Vagabond (Manoa Press) on going” was the great writer Initzar Hu- of distinct dialects and idioms and through hence raised questions about his own nos- does the remembering, in what context and a collection of Intizar Husein’s Fiction, Es- sein himself who passed away on February his discussion of literary rivalries, sights, talgia for a lost past. Indeed, in his novels against what kinds of history this memory says and Drama in 2015. Please contact the 2nd, 2016. smells, tastes, mannerisms and etiquette like Basti (the most acclaimed) and Agay is counterpoised to. In doing this, he takes AIPS office ([email protected]) With his passing, an entire era in Urdu we are made to inhabit the company of Samandar Hai and many short stories he us into the realm of individual memories for how to acquire this publication. prose and fiction has ended. His short sto- people who created their own identity in brings to the fore the nuances of living in a that undermine the nationalistic narra- Front cover: Imran Channa, IV Work in Progress Graphite and eraser on paper, 53 x 35 inches, 2015.

AIPS is deeply grateful to Imran Channa for his generosity in contrib- uting his artwork for both the front and back cover of this newsletter.

Imran Channa, Pasts in Particles, 2016 (Work in Progress) Imran Channa, Pasts in Particles, 2016 (Final Work) Pencil and graphite on paper, 150 x 100 cm Eraser dust on paper, 150 x 100 cm

Imran Channa’s artwork is borrowed from his Enclosure/Eraser exhibition (Koel Gallery, 2015). As Iftikhar Dadi writes in the accompanying catalogue, the “central concerns of Channa’s extended investigation revolve around the question of historical truth associated with the photograph, and how our understanding of history remains malleable to ideology despite the ostensibly stubborn veracity of photographic evidence. If even the most reliable visual artifact in the archive cannot guarantee truth, how can we situate ourselves as subjects of history? These questions are absolutely central to subjectivities in South Asia today, as we individually and collectively seek a responsible relation to our history, beyond the siren song of exclusivist postcolonial nationalisms.”

Imran Channa’s artwork helps us make a critical intervention on the 70th anniversary of South Asia’s partition.