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In this episode, we explore what it’s like to create born digital projects in India with support from the two AIIS research centers: the Center for Art and Archeology (CA&A) and the Archives and Research Centers for Ethnomusicology (ARCE). Both units share an online archive and digital
In this episode, we highlight new forms of innovative research being done on South Asian classical music through the AIIS performing and creative arts fellowship. Sitarist and ethnomusicologist Brian Q. Silver interviews sitarist and AIIS fellow Paul Livingstone. Through their knowledgeable experiences as international performers and dedicated musicians,
The Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) at the U.S. State Department announced that AIIS has been awarded a U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation grant for the project “India: Documentation of 16th-17th-Century Mughal Monuments on the Grand Trunk Road.” AIIS will receive $153,000 for the project, which will
Five Digital India Learning (DIL) summer student fellows spent two months in India during the summer of 2023 working on their digital sonic and visual projects at the AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology and the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, culminating in a presentation held
by Nick Timmerman In this essay, Professor Timmerman shares his experience on the Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in India in January of 2023, and how the program affected his perspective on water usage and sustainability. Water is life. A phrase used frequently in recent years as environmental
The Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2023-25: Amy Allocco, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out the project, “The Drummer-Priests of Tamil Nadu.” Professor Allocco’s
The American Institute of Indian Studies deeply mourns the death, on April 14, 2023, of Catherine B. Asher, a renowned art historian who dedicated her life to studying and publishing on the art and architecture of South Asia. Professor Asher’s contributions to the field of art history
The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Tyler W. Williams for If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Andrew McDowell for Atmospheric Entanglements:
AIIS is pleased to announce the award of five student fellowships for digital sonic and visual projects, to be carried out in the summer of 2023. The recipients will carry out original projects using the resources of the two AIIS research centers in India (Archives and Research
Students on the AIIS academic year Sanskrit program in Pune Carol Rodriguez-Gutierrez (University of Florida) and Shuheng Zhang (University of Pennsylvania) performed a play entirely in Sanskrit language at the R.N. Dandekar Sanskrit Drama Competition at Fergusson College in Pune on March 28, 2023. Sa Sumaramani—meaning “That
By Robin Kietlinski Robin Kietlinski is an associate professor of history at La Guardia Community College in Queens, New York. “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our thinking, can we bring about meaningful and sustainable development for all.” —Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Voices from
By Janny Li In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to India, discusses the many and sometimes surprising ways in which animals are integrated into the rhythms of everyday life in India’s megacities. I live in Los Angeles. I rarely think
By Janet Armitage Janet Armitage, Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, was a 2019 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. The seminar’s theme was urban sustainability and, in this essay, Armitage discusses her Indian experiences with women and
By Karen Guerrero Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University, was a 2019 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, she spells out why experiential, immersive learning opportunities are so essential for good teaching.
By Mukila Maitha Mukila Maitha, Associate Professor of Geography at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, was a 2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, he examines the factors behind Delhi’s suffocating smog and what is being done to lessen its impact.
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