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Dr. Iqbal Akhtar moderated the 2022 FIU Mahavir Jayanti Lecture & Award Ceremony. The Mahavir Jayanti lecture "highlighted contemporary research being done in Pakistan to explore the country's Jain heritage leading scholars." The lecture and subsequent awards ceremony were recorded and are available...

Christopher Finnigan offers a summary on the research project of Andrew Amstutz relating to Buddhism and Pakistan's engagement with its Buddhist history. Amstutz's ongoing research examines how museums in particular have played a crucial role in the development of Buddhist historical narratives in...

This article from Andrew Amstutz explores the role of the Buddhist past in Pakistan following the 1947 Partition of Ancient India. The article examines shifts in museum exhibits and archaeological guides from 1950 to 1969 and highlights the struggle of Pakistani historians to create a unified...

Dean Accardi was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK for 6 months. Accardi's research "investigates the early modern understandings of three Kashmiri saints who continue to hold a prominent place in debates regarding Kashmir’s cultural heritage and social belonging: ‘A...

SherAli Tareen delivers a lecture for the Hast o Neest Institute for Traditional Studies and Arts. The lecture, "Colonialism & Disagreements of Fiqh in Sunni Ulema" is part of the Peoples, Cultures, and Languages lecture series.

CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in languages other than English. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all...

Syed Eisar Haider was a 2022 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Haider's research focuses on "the role of global pilgrimage with respect to the religious practice in everyday life of Shia Muslims in Pakistan."

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

Elliot Montpellier was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for one month. Montpellier's work " focuses on Pakistani television dramas, examining how this entertainment genre uses religion as a discursive and visual theme."

Rajbir Judge was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, India, and Hungary for five months. Judge "examines the key alliances the Theosophical Society formed between Sikhs in the Punjab through the narrative of Maharaja Duleep Singh."