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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. Ø The flyer for our Spring 2008 Colloquium Series is now available on our website. Click here to download a printable copy.  Ø CSAS would like to welcome Dr. M.S.S. Pandian -- 2008 Rama Watumull Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Click here to view an abridged version of Dr. Pandian's Spring 2008 syllabus. 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. |
25th Annual Spring Symposium The 25th Annual Spring Symposium, the Body in South Asian Contexts and Caste in the Contemporary World, a day of workshops, was invigorating academically, culturally, and socially. The CSAS extends heart-felt thanks to this year's participants and volunteers. Ø Sunday, February 24, 2008 (Doris Duke Theater): Ø 10:00am-12:00pm, Thursday, Feb. 7th, 2008 (Moore 319): Dr. Harriet Natsuyama, of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, will give a photo presentation covering the scenery of Bhutan and the people who are exemplars of Buddhism in daily life. This presentation complements the upcoming symposium and exhibition being held at the Honolulu Academy of the Arts (see above). Ø 3:00pm to 4:30pm, Thursday, Nov. 15 (Kuykendall 410):
Prof. Asha Sen, of the Department of English, University of Washington at Eau Claire, gave a talk titled, Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithambika Antherjanam's 'The Goddess of Revenge' and Ismat Chugtai's 'Lihaaf'. Her presentation was co-sponsored with the UHM Department of English.
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