This page lists upcoming dissertation workshops sponsored by AIPS. For previous workshops, please click on the year.
AIPS is requesting proposals to lead doctoral dissertation workshops during the calendar year 2012. Based on funding, AIPS seeks to organize three workshops during the time period (Spring, Fall and Winter). These dissertation workshops will be discipline-based. Disciplines of high priority for future dissertation workshops include Economics, Education and English, but applications from other disciplines will also be accepted (e.g. anthropology/sociology, history, women’s studies, comparative literature, and political science).
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) in collaboration with the HEC is pleased to invite proposals for a dissertation workshop for doctoral and M. Phil. students in history in Pakistan. The AIPS, established in 1973, is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to encourage and support research on issues relevant to Pakistan and the promotion of scholarly exchange between the United States and Pakistan. AIPS aims to facilitate scholarship within academe in Pakistan in various disciplines through the holding of dissertation workshops. This dissertation workshop is for doctoral students in history whose research is focused on the history of South Asia. It will be run by the eminent historian, Dr. Yasmin Saikia, who holds the endowed Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at Arizona State University, with the participation of Pakistani historian Dr. Tanvir Anjum, Quaid-e-Azam University.