October 14, 2019
ARCE Awarded Ambassadors Fund Grant for Documentation of Imperiled Musical Traditions of Western Rajasthan
The AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology was awarded a grant from the U.S. Embassy in India’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) small grants competition for “India: Documentation…
September 13, 2019
AIIS Awarded Three-Year Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
Chicago (September 13, 2019) The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is pleased to announce that in March 2019 it was awarded a three-year grant for $315,000 from the National…
August 26, 2019
Learning to Teach India through Travel
By Karen Guerrero The participants in the AIIS-CAORC 2019 faculty development seminar to India. Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University,…
August 23, 2019
AIIS Holds Mughal Persian Archival Workshop
On August 8-9, 2019 the American Institute of Indian Studies held a Mughal Persian Archival Workshop at Lucknow University. The workshop was conceived in the context of exciting intellectual trends…
August 9, 2019
AIIS Convenes All India Museum Summit
The All India Museum Summit 2019, organized by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), was held at the India International Centre in New Delhi, July 22-24, 2019. Under the…
July 26, 2019
Water and Women in Urban India
By Janet Armitage Across all segments of Indian society, women play critical roles in helping conserve and manage increasingly limited water resources. Janet Armitage, Associate Professor of Sociology at…
July 17, 2019
Now Accepting Applications: Faculty Development Seminar on Urban Sustainability in India
Seminar: Exploring Urban Sustainability through India's CitiesIndia: December 26, 2019 – January 10, 2020 Application Deadline: September 16, 2019More Information and Apply: www.caorc.org/faculty-development-india For the second year, AIIS is partnering with…
July 8, 2019
Reflections on the Historical Relationship between People and Spaces
By Danny Sexton The Glass House, a central landmark of the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, was built in 1889. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9515661a …
June 18, 2019
AIIS Organizes All India Museum Summit
All India Museum Summit July 22 – 24, 2019, India International Centre, New Delhi The All India Museum Summit 2019, with financial support from the Embassy of the United States of…
May 29, 2019
AIIS Announces its 2019-2020 Fellowship Recipients
The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce that the Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2019-2020: Tariq Ali, an…