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AIPS 2017 Newsletter AIPS AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PAKISTAN STUDIES 2017 NEWSLETTER 2 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PAKISTAN STUDIES 2017 NEWSLETTER 3 President’s Report The Study of Pakistan in the 21st Century: AIPS (Co)sponsored Conferences Dear Friends and Colleagues, 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 LETTE 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
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