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The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) is a private, non-profit organization run by scholars with the aim of promoting and encouraging the systematic study of the culture, society, land, languages, health, peoples and history of Afghanistan. It will be especially concerned with increasing the numbers of scholars in the United States who have expertise in, and understanding of Afghanistan, and to assist in the rebuilding of academic institutions and the advanced study of Afghanistan by Afghan scholars.
Durand Conference Report Now Available
From July 11 to 13, 2007, the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) and the Hollings Center convened in Istanbul a private conference on the history, consequences, and future of the Durand Line, the contested border between Afghanistan and Pakistan which has become among the most important borders in the world. Participants included prominent scholars, policy analysts, and former senior government officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Europe, and the United States. A full report of the conference proceedings is now available.
Passing of founding AIAS President, John Richards
Founding President of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, John Richards of Duke University, passed away on August 23 after a long illness. He was 68.
Memorial services for Professor Richards will be held at Duke University and Greenland, NH. For more information, please click here.
Students in the Field
Two American graduate students, both Boston University anthropologists, have recently begun working in Afghanistan. Ted Callahan serves as a consultant with the Central Asian Institute in the remote Pamirs of northeastern Badakhshan province. Noah Coburn is interested in the history and market economy of Istalif, a pottery making village the Shomali plain north of Kabul.
 
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AIAS and CAORC announce 2008 Getty Fellowship. Deadline 02/15/2008.
Video of Strand/Katz Lecture now available.
Information on the passing of former AIAS President, John Richards.
Afghanistan's Alternatives for Peace and Development
A Lecture by Dr. M. Nazif Shahrani
Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:00 PM
Reception for AIAS' New Director: Omar Sharifi
Sunday, June 8, 2008 4:30 PM
Afghanistan's Nuristan Region in Strategic and Ethnographic Context.
Richard Strand and David Katz
Boston University
George Sherman Union, Room 310
October 15, 2007 4:00 PM
AIAS - Annual Board Meeting
CESS Conference
University of Washington
Thompson Bldg. Room 317
October 18-21, 2007 12:00 PM
U.S. Office - Boston
AIAS
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Ave. Rm. 639
Boston, MA 02215 USA
Phone: +1 617-358-4649
Fax: +1 617-358-4650
E-mail: aias@bu.edu
AIAS Center - Kabul
Phone: +93 (0) 70-252251
Phone: +93 (0) 70-8324209
E-mail: AIAS.KBL@gmail.com
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