Julie Flowerday's new journal article, "Kashmir Dispute and 19th Century British-Chinese Stalemate over Hunza—Kanjut" in the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research addresses the notion of modern state and the unresolved pre-partition struggle between Britain and China over a political entity in the Karakoram Mountains.  Check it

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar, Director of Western Indian Ocean Studies at FIU and AIPS Trustee, will be a Fulbright scholar in Pakistan for spring term of 2020. He will teach a course on comparative historiography at UMT in Lahore and continue to do research in Islamabad. His grant is focused on capacity building of Pakistani academics to write for a global audience, apply for international grants, develop US-Pakistani academic relationships, and to develop a more rigorous perspective of Pakistan's history in its humanities disciplines.