NEWS: Welcome back! Best wishes for a productive and enjoyable Fall 2008.


Featured News:

Ø East-West University, Dhaka -- Call FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Democracy, the "New World Order" and the English Studies, 13-14 December 2008. Proposals due October 10, 2008.

Ø Please click here to view a list of Fall 2008 South Asia-Related Courses Offerings.

Ø A PDF version of our 25th Annual Spring Symposium Poster is available here.

Ø The CSAS 2008 Spring Newsletter is available on the web. Click here to download the pdf file.

Ø The CSAS would like to congratulate the winners of the 2008 J. Watumull Scholarships for the Study of India. Click here to view scholarship information. Check back with us for more information about the recipients.


Recent Doings by CSAS Community Members

Ø CSAS Executive Committee member Monisha Das Gupta's Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States won the 2008 Association of Asian American Studies Social Science Book award. Please download a copy of the Spring 2008 Newsletter to find out more.

Ø Click here to view a special issue of Architectural Design co-edited by Kazi Ashraff, a member of the CSAS Executive Committee. Architectural Design is one of the leading architectural publications today. The special issue focuses on contemporary architecture in India.

Ø Click here to read an editorial that S. Shankar, CSAS Director, published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin this summer. It pertains to the persistence of the caste system in India, sixty years after its supposed abolition.


Recent and Upcoming CSAS Events

Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema
UHM International Symposium
September 23-26, 2008; Burns Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies
Featuring: Sadhana Naithani
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Folktales: Value of Changing Forms From Colonialism to Bollywood Cinema

Click here for details

Ø Thursday, April 10 to Saturday, April 12, 2008:
25th Annual CSAS Spring Symposium, the Body in South Asian Contexts and Caste in the Contemporary World, a day of workshops.



Click here to view the symposium program. The CSAS extends heartfelt thanks to participants and volunteers.

Ø Sunday, February 24, 2008 (Doris Duke Theater):

The Honolulu Academy of Arts hosted a daylong Symposium in conjunction with the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of Buddhist art from Bhutan, The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan -- A Symposium on the Buddhism and Buddhist Art of Bhutan. The Symposium is supported in part by the UHM Center for South Asian Studies and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies.

Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa
1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 416, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
Phone: (808) 956-5652, Fax: (808) 956-6345, Email: csas@hawaii.edu