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 of Endangered Musical
Read more →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 Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship Programs at
Read more →Learning to Teach India through Travel By Karen Guerrero Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University, was a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, she spells out why experiential, immersive learning
Read more →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 in the fields of comparative empire studies and the study of
Read more →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 theme India’s museums in the new millennium the Summit emphasized the
Read more →Water and Women in Urban India By Janet Armitage Janet Armitage, Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, was a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar to India. The seminar’s theme was urban sustainability and, in this essay, Armitage
Read more →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 the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) to host the faculty development seminar, “Exploring Urban Sustainability
Read more →Reflections on the Historical Relationship between People and Spaces By Danny Sexton In this essay, Danny Sexton, a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC faculty development seminar to India, discusses his visit to India’s Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and offers reflections on the ever-changing relationship
Read more →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 America, New Delhi, will convene a nationwide gathering of museum professionals, including curators, administrators and conservationists, as
Read more →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 associate professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University, was awarded a senior short-term fellowship to
Read more →Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary By Janny Li In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019 participant in the AIIS-CAORC faculty development seminar to India, discusses the many and sometimes surprising ways in which animals are integrated into the rhythms of everyday life in
Read more →The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Dipti Khera for The Place of Many Moods: Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century. The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Bharat Venkat for At the Limits of
Read more →Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities by Robin Kietlinski “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 the Grassroots On
Read more →Avital Datskovsky couldn’t get enough of India. After participating in the 2013-14 academic year AIIS Hindi language program in Jaipur—on a language fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Group Projects Abroad program—she returned as an American India Foundation Clinton Fellow in 2016-17 to work with
Read more →AIIS congratulates Michael H. Fisher on the publication of his sweeping new anthology, An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press). Prof. Fisher writes below on the challenges and rewards of synthesizing years of research within a single book, and
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