Dr. Kamran Asdar Ali, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Pakistan Studies, was recently featured in a video where he presented his aspirations for Critical Pakistan Studies to be a high-standard, first-rate, and top-tier interdisciplinary source of information on Pakistan. Critical Pakistan Studies is a new open-access journal published with the support of Cambridge University Press that tackles broader interdisciplinary issues in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis.
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Transcribing 16th Century Lithograph"Nisabs"-A Popular Genre of Elementary Language Instruction
Walter Hakala (Asst. Professor, SUNY-Buffalo) was recently awarded seed money from the University at Buffalo Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development and Humanities Institute to support the transcription of approximately sixteen nineteenth-century lithograph nisabs, or multilingual vocabularies in verse. As practical and cost-effective tools for elementary language instruction, the genre remained popular for centuries with dozens of vocabularies composed for children in a variety of South Asian languages. He spoke about these works at a symposium on Persian Manuscripts held at the British Library in October 2014. He also published several articles, which are listed in the member publications section.
Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2015