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South Asia Institute the University of Texas at Austin NEWSLETTER FALL 2012 Fall 2012 Letter from the Director Faculty & Student News South Asia Institute The University of Texas at Austin NEWSLETTER FALL 2012 Fall 2012 Letter from the Director Faculty & Student News Dear Colleagues, Students and with Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) in Faculty In the past year, sector/) and it was also recently Friends, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The focus of the grant is to create Professor Shama Gamkhar reviewed in The Hindu (http://www. an exchange program to mentor faculty members from (LBJ School of Public Affairs) and thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp- It has been a busy year FJWU. Each semester, FJWU faculty members will spend Professor of Asian graduate student Ian Partridge have business/article3705398.ece). since I took over as director of four months in Austin, to be followed by a two-week visit Studies Martha Ann Selby done research on the health effects the South Asia Institute. We from University of Texas at Austin faculty members to traveled to Singapore in late of coal fired power generation: started the academic year with FJWU in Pakistan. Our first batch of FJWU scholars will November 2011 to participate in http://www.rff.org/Publications/ Professor Ashwini a celebration of fifty years as a be arriving in January of 2013. They will be introduced a workshop entitled “The History Pages/PublicationDetails. Deo joined the Department of program in South Asian Studies, to SAI affiliated faculty and students and please make and Cultures of Friendship in aspx?PublicationID=21942 . Linguistics as a Harrington Faculty and ended with a conference them feel welcome during their four-month stay at UT. Precolonial South Asia,” organized This research was also presented Fellow for Academic Year 2012-13. bringing South Asian scholars from all across Texas The grant was a collective effort with ample support from by Professors Daud S. Ali of at the American Social Science Prof. Deo is an assistant professor to UT, Austin. In between we invited scholars, writers, our colleagues in the University and from the Dean of the the University of Pennsylvania Association meeting and at the in the Department of Linguistics at artists, filmmakers, performers and activists related College of Liberal Arts’ office. However, we could not have and Emma J. Flatt, Nanyang World Bank in 2012. They also Yale University who received her to South Asia. This fall we have already organized two received the grant without the dedicated attention Rachel Technological University, authored two articles on the power doctorate from Stanford in 2006. workshops, one on Pakistan and the other on Buddhism Meyer brought to the process. I am personally indebted Singapore. The workshop was sector in China, highlighted on Her research interests include the in South Asia. We are already planning the seminar series to her for her assistance during the grant writing period. held on the Nanyang campus, this web page (they are currently semantics of tense and aspect, for Spring of 2013, while this semester’s seminar series on To be sure, the Institute is very fortunate to have where Selby gave the paper “The working on similar issues in the historical linguistics of Indo- Religion and Society in Traditional India, a tribute to our an extremely dedicated and hard-working set of staff Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil India): http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/ Aryan languages, and the Paninian own Patrick Olivelle, is well under way. members who deserve our collective vote of thanks. With Landscapes of Irony and Voice.” facultyresearch. grammatical tradition. This vibrant intellectual life at our Institute is their assistance and the support and trust of our faculty matched by our students, under-graduate and graduate, and students, I look forward to another exciting and earning degrees, receiving fellowships, getting post-docs intellectually invigorating year ahead. In March 2012 Herman Jennifer Bussell (LBJ Stephen Phillips, and academic teaching positions. Along with this we also van Olphen presented a paper School of Public Affairs) professor of Philosophy, anticipate growth in our faculty positions in departments Thank you. “New Directions in the Teaching recently published a book, Corrup- Asian Studies, published two books of Asian Studies, History, Government and Religious of Hindi in the United States” at tion and Reform in India, in which during the last year: Epistemology Studies and the coming years may find us welcoming new Sincerely, the European Hindi Conference at she asks: Why are some govern- in Classical India: The Knowledge members to our affiliated group of scholars on campus. the University of Valladolid, Spain. ments better able to reform public Sources of the Nyaya School (New The Spring of 2012 was a busy time for the On June 20, 2012 the President of services than others? Her analysis York and London: Routledge, Institute, we applied for several federal grants, some in India, Pratibha Patil, presented him provides insights into this funda- 2012) http://www.routledge.com/ collaboration with other area study programs on campus. Kamran Asdar Ali with the George Grierson Award mental question through investiga- books/details/9780415895545/; and Our efforts paid off when we received a Federal Grant for service to Hindi by non-Indians tion of a new era of administrative with Joel Feldman, who received of almost a million dollars for a three-year partnership at a ceremony at Rashtrapati reform, in which digital technolo- his PhD from UT and studied Bhavan in New Delhi (see photo gies may be used to facilitate citi- Sanskrit with Prof. Traude Harzer: below). zens’ access to the state. In contrast Ratnakirti’s Proof of Momentariness to factors such as economic devel- By Positive Correlation (New York: opment or electoral competition, American Institute of Buddhist she highlights the importance of Studies, distributed by Columbia access to rents, which can dra- University Press, 2012) http:// In this Issue... matically shape opportunities and cup.columbia.edu/book/978-1- threats of reform to political elites. 935011-06-4/ratnakirtis-proof- Letter from the Director ........................... 1 Buddhism in South Asia ............................ 10 The book also illuminates the im- of-momentariness-by-positive- Faculty & Student News ............................ 2 Texas South Asia Conference .................... 11 portance of political constituencies correlationksanabhangasiddhi- HUF Report ............................................... 5 Pakistan in Texas ....................................... 12 and coalition politics in shaping anvayatmika. Celebrating Manto ..................................... 6 Graduate Student Dispatch ........................ 13 policy outcomes. Fall 2011 Conference ................................ 7 K-12 Outreach ........................................... 15 A Q&A was done on the Becoming South Asian American ............. 8 South Asia Book Award ............................ 16 book for ShelfLife@Texas (http:// Kamran Asdar Ali, Archaeology in South Asia ....................... 9 SAI to Partner with FJWU ........................ 17 www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/ Spring 2012 Seminar Series ...................... 9 Sagar: Call for Papers ................................ 18 Anthropology, published shelflife/2012/05/21/indias-digital- Women, Work and Public Spaces: transformation-in-the-public- Conflict and Co-Existence in Front cover and border image by Naiza Khan, Henna Hands, Site specific project, Cantonment Railway Station Karachi. Medium: henna pigment on the wall, dimensions variable, 2003 1 South Asia Institute Newsletter South Asia Institute Newsletter 2 Fall 2012 Karachi’s Poor Neighborhoods. Max Bruce (Asian Art Association (CAA) and at Asian Studies be found at http://www.umich. International Journal of Urban and Studies) received an American the 2012 American Comparative doctoral students Amy edu/%7Eaos/Programs.html. Regional Research. As President Institute of Indian Studies Junior Literature Association (ACLA). Hyne, Mike Jones, and Hillary Congratulations to of American Institute of Pakistan Research Fellowship. Max’s Langberg presented papers on the 2012-2013 FLAS Studies (AIPS) he was PI for dissertation is on the life and works Sanskrit philology at the 22nd HUF students several grants received by the of Shibli Nomani (1857-1914). Eben Graves annual meeting of the American Florence Kerns and Ishita Awardees! organization, including a four year (Ethnomusicology) was Oriental Society in March of Paul both won first place in Academic Year 2012-2013 DOE Title VI Grant ($260,000) awarded a Junior Fellowship this year. The meeting, held in their respective categories at the Awardees: and a Multiyear Grant for AIPS’ Abdul Haque Chang from the American Institute of Boston, MA, focused primarily prestigious national Hindi debate administrative expenditure (five (anthropology) received a Indian Studies to fund his doctoral on philological aspects of non- held at Yale University on April 6, • Dana Johnson, Asian years) and academic exchange Wenner Gren Foundation grant to dissertation research on Bengali western languages and pre-modern 2012. Studies, Hindi program (two years) from the conduct pre-dissertation field work Vaishnava kirtan. He is currently religious texts including those of The debate featured • Colin Pace, Asian Studies, US Department of State. ($1.9 East Asia, South Asia, and the Near in the Indus Delta, Sind, Pakistan. in Kolkata working with kirtaniyas contestants from Harvard, Hindi million). (kirtan musicians), visiting archives East/West Asia. Princeton, Columbia,
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