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* Please note: the deadline for the 2010 J. Watumull Scholarships for the Study of India has been extended to February 12, 2010. Please ignore any dates to the contrary. Click here to view scholarship information. * Introducing our Spring 2010 Rama Waumull Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. V. Sanil!
Dr. Sanil is Professor of Philosphy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He was Charles Wallace Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, U.K. and Directeur d'etudes Associes, at des sciences de l'homme, Paris. Dr. Sanil received his degree in Engineering and a PhD in Philosophy. His research interests lie in Philosophical issues in Cinema, Philosophical Aesthetics and Philosophy of Technology. He works on art and technology in Classical India, Asian Cinema, Indian Theatre, Colonialism and Philosophy and Phenomenology. Besides publications in English, Dr. Sanil writes in Malayalam on 19th and 20th Century social movements, secularism and culture. CSAS Spring 2010 Colloquium Series Throughout the University of Hawaii, faculty and students are doing exciting work related to South Asian culture and societies. The CSAS Colloquium Series helps us, as a community, to showcase some of the especially interesting work we are doing, and to learn collectively from one another. We are currently putting together our colloquia
schedule for the Spring 2010 semester and welcome presentation proposals from any faculty or
graduate students currently doing work related to South Asia. If you are interested in participating in the Spring 2010 Colloquium Series please forward a brief abstract to this
e-mail address along with contact information and a very short
biography. * The CSAS 2009 Spring Newsletter is available on the web. Click here to download the pdf file. * The CSAS would like to congratulate the winners of the 2009 J. Watumull Scholarships for the Study of India, Amy Donohue and Cary Hitchcock. Click here to view scholarship information. Check back with us for information about the recipients.
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The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i invites paper and panel proposals on aspects related to its 27th Annual Spring Symposium: "Violence and 'Terror' in South Asia" Conference Dates: April 14-16, 2010, in Honolulu, Hawai'i The symposium will address contemporary forms of violence in South Asia as well as locate discussions in a deep historical context. The following suggestions are meant to be illustrations. We invite a variety of approaches and themes. Please write to us with any ideas you might have:
We are pleased to announce that discussions will be anchored by Invited Lectures from the following distinguished scholars:
Deadline to submit proposals: January 15th, 2010 Please send 200 word abstracts for individual papers by email to csas@hawaii.edu.
If proposing an entire panel, please also include a paragraph-length
rationale and a proposed title for the panel. We invite a broad range
of topics, attitudes and approaches on all aspects of violence and
"terrorism" in South Asian contexts. A limited amount of free lodging will be available to participants. South Asia Related Courses at UH The following courses are being offered in Spring 2010: (go to MYUH to register) ASAN 312 Asian Civiliations TR 1200-0115p Sharma ASAN 463 Gender Issues in T 0300-0530p Sharma Asian Society ENG 780N Postcolonial Theory W 0330-0600p Shankar ES 390 Gender & Race in MWF 0930-1020a Das Gupta US Society HNDI 102 Elementary Hindi MTWRF 0330-0420p Bhatawad HNDI 202 Intermediate Hindi MTWRF 0430-0520p Bhatawad HIST 297C Islamic History TR 0900-1015a Khan (offered at LCC) HIST 452D History and Film M 0330-0630p Bertz PHIL 730 Islamic Philosophy R 0330-0600p Albertini REL 356 Women and Religion W 1230-0300p Bloomer REL 480 Field Methods in M 0100-0330p Bloomer Religion SNSK 182 Introduction to TR 0900-1015a R Sharma Sanskrit SNSK 282 Intermediate TR 1030-1145a R Sharma Sanskrit SNSK 382 Third-Level TR 0300-0415p R Sharma Sanskrit * The Center for South Asian studies has developed a new website, Caste in South Asia: A Gateway to Internet Resources,
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