THE UNIVERSITY OF AT AUSTIN Center for Asian Studies NN EE WW SS LL EE TT TT EE RR asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/cas/index.htm FALL 2001

A SPECIAL NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Fall semester 2001 has been unprecedented. Terrorist attacks and massive loss of life in New York and Washington, D.C., plunged us into deep gloom on September 11. Across the country, people of South Asian and Middle Eastern origin became targets of violent backlash, interrogation, and detention. War has come to South Asia with American military strikes on Afghanistan, and conflict threatens to engulf Pakistan and India. Our friends and families are bereaved, our societies are beset by insecurity, and we are anxious about the global outcome. Amidst these difficult events, UT and the Center have distinguished themselves as communities of concern. Our students and staff have supported each other and protected those most vulnerable. Our faculty have led public discussions, responded to media inquiries, and responded selflessly to the immense hunger for information and analysis. Although precipitated by a terrible crisis, a new level of discourse now seems possible. Knowledge of other peoples, their languages, histories and beliefs, has never been more important. Our task may seem immense because the questions are many, the answers few. Nonetheless this is a moment when the Center rededicates itself to educating the public and sustaining an atmosphere of intellectual inquiry and debate. I personally invite our readers to contact my office to engage faculty for public addresses. You are most welcome to attend our seminars and conferences, and to visit our website and take a close look at the new spotlight on Afghanistan and the Aftermath of September 11 (asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/cas/pages/afghan.html). It contains many valuable links, especially to resources on how to teach students of all ages about the crisis. —Kathryn Hansen

Technology, Media, and the Cinema was the medium discussed by Vasudevan (Cen-

Changing Face of Asia ter for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) and Lalitha

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Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. Retires Neil DeVotta, Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

“I came to be Bob Hardgrave’s Ph.D. student with great trepidation, in the wake of the kind of event that is usually a graduate student’s nightmare: the unexpected departure of my dissertation advisor to take up a post at another university . . . it turned out to be a singu- larly serendipitous stroke of good fortune. From my vague interest in the ways social structures influenced politics, Bob pushed me to delve deeply and to think systematically about forms of local organi- zation, both formal and informal, and how they shaped the broader context of politics. I could not have conjured a more critical con- structive reader for my dissertation, but ultimately . . . I think the most important thing Bob Hardgrave taught me was to appreciate the extraordinary scope and the multifarious nature of the world of politics, and hence of the object of our study as Political Scientists. In my teaching and in my advising I frequently attempt to emulate Bob Hardgrave as the model of what the teacher-scholar can be.”

—Leonardo A. Villalon, Robert Hardgrave, Jr. Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas

obert L. Hardgrave, Jr., Louann taught at Oberlin College, Ohio, the thirty-five years at UT, Hardgrave Rand Larry Temple Centennial previous year. A West Texas native, authored eleven books (a couple of Professor of the Humanities, one of Hardgrave received his B.A. from the which were translated into Tamil and America’s preeminent political University of Texas–Austin in 1960, Korean) and over sixty-five articles. He scientists working on South Asia and a spent a year at the Indian School of edited a number of volumes, served in a mainstay at the Center for Asian International Studies in New Delhi, and plethora of administrative posts Studies, retired in August 2001. Bob received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in (including Acting Director of the Center Hardgrave began teaching at the Political Science from the University of University of Texas in 1967, having Chicago in 1962 and 1966. During his

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Susan Burns (His- for Asian Studies, 1996-1997), and tory) received ten- taught courses on American ure and promotion Government, Public Law, and to Associate Pro- Comparative Politics. The latter fessor. Burns is courses were especially geared towards the author of Be- aspiring South Asian scholars. fore the Nation: Kokugaku and the He was awarded the UT President’s Imagining of Com- Associates Teaching Excellence Award munity in Early Susan Burns in 1984 and the “Eyes of Texas” Teaching Modern Japan Excellence Award in 1995. He continues (Duke University Press, forthcoming) to serve as a senior policy adviser and photo: Glamour Shots and is currently working on a new book, consultant for the U.S. State Susan Napier The Body in Question: The Politics and Cul- Department, Global Assessments Inc., ture of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Ja- and Political Risk Services, Inc. Mitsubishi Endowed Chair pan. She is also a recent recipient of a Awarded Nichibunken (International Center for Among his publications The Dravidian Japanese Studies) fellowship to support Movement (1965) remains a standard Susan Napier (Asian Studies), af- twelve months of research in Japan. source for scholars researching South ter receiving promotion to full Indian nationalism; The Nadars of professor, was appointed Tamilnad (1969) likewise continues to be Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Cynthia Talbot regarded as a major theoretical and Chair of Japanese Studies, a posi- (History/Asian ethnographic contribution; Comparative tion supported by the Mitsubishi Studies) received Politics: The Quest for Theory (1973, with tenure and promo- James Bill) remains in print and nearly Foundation. A graduate of tion to Associate thirty years later is still considered a Harvard University, Napier is an Professor. Known great resource to graduate students; and internationally-recognized spe- for her courses in India: Government and Politics in a cialist of Japanese literature and ancient and medi- Developing Nation (now in its 6th edition animation. She is the author of eval Indian his- and co-authored with Stanley Kochanek three books: Escape from the Waste- tory, Talbot came since the 4th edition) continues to be land: Romanticism and Realism in the Cynthia Talbot to UT-Austin in among the most popular texts for Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe 1995. Her book undergraduates studying India. Kenzaburo (Council on East Asian Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, Studies, Harvard University, 1991); and Identity in Medieval Andhra, was pub- Hardgrave has also had an abiding lished by Oxford University Press (New The Fantastic in Modern Japanese interest in art and took numerous art York and Delhi) in the summer of 2001. courses while at the University of Literature: The Subversion of Moder- It is a detailed reconstruction of the so- Chicago. This interest led to two books nity (Routledge, 1996); and Anime ciety of Andhra in the medieval period on Balthazar Solvyns, a late eighteenth- from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Ex- using temple inscriptions. Her current century and early nineteenth-century periencing Contemporary Japanese research focuses on the historiographic Flemish painter who lived in Calcutta Animation (Palgrave, 2001). traditions of north India relating to and produced three hundred etchings of Prithviraj Cauhan, a twelfth-century India’s peoples.  A full-time teacher at UT since king.  1984, Napier attracts students from a diverse array of university departments and programs. In recognition of her teaching excel- lence, Napier has received the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. We are proud of her accomplishments and gratefully thank the Mitsubishi Foundation for their continued

support of Japanese studies.

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Sanskrit Beyond the Text Steven Lindquist, Ph.D. Candidate, Asian Cultures and Languages Steven Lindquist joined the Ph.D. program in Asian Cultures and Languages in the fall of 1998. In November he will return to India on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.

Steven Lindquist

uring the last eleven months, Sanskrit students have all heard have I been able to study with DI lived in Pune, Maharashtra, horror stories about the difficulty world-renowned Sanskrit scholars under the auspices of the Ameri- of working in Indian archives. Out- (Dr. G.U. Thite and Dr. Shreekant can Institute of Indian Studies Jun- side of a few bureaucratic diffi- Bahulkar, in particular) many hours ior Fellowship. Affiliated with the culties (true of any institution in a week, but through interactions Bhandarkar Oriental Research In- India), I have been met with noth- with various institutes, universi- stitute, I have been carrying out ing but kindness and support while ties, scholars, and even neighbors research on my dissertation, “In discussing my I have been ex- Search of a Sage: Yajnavalkya and work with vari- posed to worlds Ancient Indian Literary Memory.” ous scholars at “What I have and ideologies This project is a textual and his- these archives not found in the torical study of one of the most and accessing learned in India library or the important literary figures in an- their holdings. could never be classroom. The cient Indian history. The archives in political and Pune, Mysore, duplicated in the theological im- These months were not my first in , and West nor ‘culled’ plications of India: I have already lived almost Banaras not Sanskrit study, three years in India (mainly in only allowed from a text.” the different Banaras) as (variously) an under- me to copy or idioms of aca- graduate on a study-abroad pro- photograph the demic scholar- gram, director of that same pro- necessary manuscripts, but the af- ship, and the practical aspects of gram, and a student on a summer filiated scholars also showed great actually performing a Vedic ritual Hindi program. After this training interest in my work. are cultural realities that can only in the so-called “Hindi belt,” I be lived, not read. chose to move further south to One of the most outdated but Pune, a place world-renowned for rather prevalent notions in the In November, I return to India—this its Sanskrit scholarship. West is that Sanskrit research is time under a Fulbright-Hays dis- better carried out in a library in sertation grant and in a different While in India, I have read and dis- the United States or Europe and location. I will base myself in cussed the primary Sanskrit not in India. One would have Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and work sources with scholars and col- hoped that the Orientalist debate principally at the Adyar Library. lected copies of manuscripts at of the last two decades, global- Not only will I learn about a dif- various archives. I had the plea- ization, changing migration pat- ferent locality with different tra- sure of presenting my work at two terns, and growing diasporic com- ditions, languages, and politics, academic conferences as well as munities would have made such but I will attempt once again to the privilege of being a guest at suppositions obsolete, but this is expand my knowledge of Indian two Vedic sacrifices. My leisure not universally the case. history, the Sanskrit language, and time was spent visiting religious their relationship with living tra- rites, watching Hindi films or tele- What I have learned in India could ditions. vision, and occasionally relaxing never be duplicated in the West

with a Kingfisher! nor “culled” from a text. Not only

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Learning about Nations, Learning about People Briah Ruh, M.A. Candidate, Asian Studies Brian Ruh joined the M.A. program in Asian Cultures and Languages in the fall of 2000. He plans to complete his Master’s degree in the spring of 2002.

Brian Ruh

his summer I participated in topic. Since my particular aca- the conference at the Tokyo Fo- Tthe 53rd annual meeting of the demic focus is popular culture, I rum. As JASC is run and organized Japan-America Student Confer- was a member of the mass media solely by students, we also began ence (JASC), a table and pre- the preparation for next year’s fo- month-long sented “Mass rum. event in which “The conference Media, Gender students from enabled me to Roles, and Attending this conference was vi- the U.S. and Ja- Popular Culture tal to my academic career. In my pan gather to interact with in Japan and writings, I often make hypotheses discuss every- the United and extrapolations about behav- thing from glo- Japanese stud- States.” bal interactions ents and discuss “By getting to know to personal re- their perceptions We took a bus lationships. from Kyoto to Japanese students Thirty-two of themselves, Hiroshima, American and where we dis- on an individual thirty-one Japa- their society, and cussed ideas of basis, I became nese university the world. . . .” peace, war- students met in fare, national- more aware of my Kyoto for the ism, and retri- own culture and conference, “Exploring Japan-U.S. bution. We also were able to par- Relations in a Globalizing Society.” ticipate in the World Conference myself.” This event, hosted by Ritsumeikan of Mayors for Peace through Inter- University, was an opportunity to city Solidarity as well as attend the ior and meaning within Japanese discuss Japan-U.S. relations not Peace Memorial Ceremony on Au- society. The conference enabled only in an abstract sense, but also gust 6, the 56th anniversary of the me to interact with Japanese stu- concretely by experiencing such dropping of the atomic bomb. dents and discuss their perceptions relations as we ate, lived, and of themselves, their own society, made friends together. In August we went to Okinawa, and the world around them. By where we were joined by forty ad- getting to know Japanese students JASC was divided into table dis- ditional students. We spent our on an individual basis, I became cussions and special topics and time discussing Okinawa’s unique more aware of my own culture and each group met ten times through- role in U.S.-Japan relations, focus- myself. During the conference out the conference. During these ing especially on the presence of there were arguments and dis- meetings, we discussed how issues the American military bases on the agreements, of course, but I think relating to our respective topics island, and presenting our findings nearly everyone came away from impact not only U.S.-Japan inter- and suggestions at the forum. it with a positive experience. actions, but how our two countries affect the rest of the world. Each The 53rd Japan-America Student For more information about current and future Japan-America Student Confer- delegate wrote and presented a Conference concluded in Tokyo, ences, see their website at: www.jasc.org.

paper relating to his or her table where we presented the results of

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ponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Fahmida Riaz, Sa leading Urdu poet from Pakistan, gave a dynamic talk on the contribution of Muslim women to the history, culture, and politics of the subcontinent in April of this year. In addition to her lecture, she read her poetry in S. Akbar Hyder’s class Female Voices in Urdu Literature. Students had an opportunity to ask Ms. Riaz about her writing style, her views on women’s rights in Islam, and her exile days in India. Ms. Riaz discussed the translations of her poetry done by Asian Studies students. She was delighted by the quality of the translations and hopes to publish them soon. She also spoke for Gail Minault’s class Women in Islamic Societies, where she also participated in a lively debate on the status of women in Islamic societies in South Asia and beyond.

Ms. Riaz stayed in Austin for four days and during this time met with undergraduate and graduate students from the departments of Asian Studies, History, Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, and Literature. She thoroughly enjoyed Austin and referred to UT’s graduate students as the “brightest talents” she had ever encountered. Ms. Riaz also had the opportunity to mingle with advocates of women’s rights, including several members of the community organization Saheli. Fahmida Riaz

South Asia Seminars:

Margaret Abraham (Hofstra University) Sumit Guha (Brown University) “Reli- Fahmida Riaz (Author, Pakistan) “In a Foreign Country and Behind gious Authority, Political Power, and “Breaking the Silence: South Asia from Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in the Community Boundaries in 18th-Cen- a Woman’s Perspective.” South Asian Community.” tury South Asia.” Martha Selby (UT-Austin) “Constant Seema Alavi (Jamia Millia University, John Stratton Hawley (Columbia Uni- Craving: Listening to the Voice of the Delhi) “A European View of the Mughal versity) “Last Seen with Akbar: Empire, Garbha in the Caraka- and Susruta- Orient: A.H. Polier in 18th-Century In- Sect, and the Career Bhakti Poet.” Samhitas.” dia.” Kavita Khory (Mt. Holyoke College) Satadru Sen (Purdue University) “A Ali Asani (Harvard University) “The Di- “Nationalism in Pakistan: Domestic and Strange, Wondrous Place: Convicts, lemmas of Defining Muslim Identity in International Dimensions.” Dislocation, and Identity in the Contemporary South Asia.” Andaman Islands Penal Colony.” Amelia Maciszewski (Ph.D. in Jonah Blank (US Senate Foreign Rela- Ethnomusicology, UT-Austin) “Our Sto- Vandana Shiva (Environmentalist, In- tions Committee) “Mullahs on the ries, Our Songs: North Indian Women’s dia) “The Global Economy and the Fu- Mainframe: Islam and Modernity in a Musical Autobiographies” (Video pre- ture of Food.” South Asian Context.” sentation). Krishna Baldev Vaid (State University of Bijoy H. Boruah (Fulbright Scholar, Phi- K.N. Panikkar (Jawaharlal Nehru Uni- New York, Potsdam) “Reflections in a losophy, UT-Austin) “Atman in Sunyata versity, Delhi) “Outsider as Enemy: The Broken Mirror: Readings and Remarks.” and the Sunyata of Atman.” Politics of Rewriting History in India.”

Miki Desai (Fulbright Scholar, School of Carla Petievich (Montclair State Univer- Reports of selected South Architecture, UT-Austin) “Indian Re- sity) “Blurring Boundaries of Commu- gional Identity as Seen Through Archi- nity in Indo-Muslim Poetry: Ironies of Asia Seminar sessions are tecture: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala.” Gender.” available online at:

Daniel Ehnbom (University of Virginia) Tariq Rahman (Quaid-i-Azam Univer- asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/ “Collecting and Categorizing Indian sity, Pakistan) “Identity Formation in Paintings: Western Tastes and Sectarian South Asia: Religion and Language as cas/pages/SAsem.html

Identifications.” Cohesive and Divisive Symbols.”

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“Crisis in VIP Visits US-China Relations?” The Center is pleased to have hosted the visits of a number of dis- panelists tinguished individuals this past year. (from Kunio Toyama, vice governor of the L to R): district containing Austin’s sister- Philip city, Oita, visited Austin as part of Dupont, the University’s Distinguished Lec- ture Series. Toyama spoke on busi- Ross Terrill, ness and cultural relations between Sumit Austin and Oita, a city located on Ganguly, Japan’s southernmost island. and Muhammad Akram Zaki, former Xuecheng ambassador to the US and China, and current Member of the Senate Liu. of Pakistan, visited this past sum- mer. Over a special luncheon with Center faculty, Zaki discussed cur- Japan Seminars: China Seminars: rent affairs and international rela- tions in South Asia with a particu- Hiroshi Aoyagi (UT-Austin) “Proto-In- Peggy Chiao (National Institute of the lar emphasis on the role of Pakistan. dustrial Origins of Japanese Consumer- Arts in the Republic of China) “Contem- ism: A Case Study of Idolatry and the porary Chinese Cinema in China, Tai- In June, seven Asia Pacific Jefferson Print-Media in Tokugawa Japan” and wan, and Hong Kong.” Fellows (distinguished journalists “Capitalizing Self: Idolatry and Symbolic from major news media throughout Production in Contemporary Japan.” Charles Laughlin (Yale University) “Lei- Asia—, , China, Ja- sure in the World of Struggle: 1930s pan, and Australia) visited Austin Susan Burns (UT-Austin) “From ‘Leper Chinese Essays.” and the University of Texas under Villages’ to Leprosariums: Public the auspices of the East-West Cen- Health, Nationalism, and the Culture of Shula Zuo (Associate Editor-in-Chief, ter at the University of Hawaii. Exclusion in Japan.” Film Art Magazine, Beijing) “Indepen- They had a chance to see something dent Film Production in Contemporary of Texas and participate in discus- Millie Creighton (University of British China.” sions about international relations Columbia) “Pre-Industrial Dreaming in and the status of Asian Studies in Post-Industrial Japan: Department America while visiting the Center. Stores as Mediators of Localism and In- ternationalization; Nostalgia and Mo- dernity.”

Susan Napier (UT-Austin) “The Change- ling Boy (And Girl): Metamorphosis in Japanese Animation.”

Katherine Rupp (Yale University) “The Calculus of the Gift: Money and Social Relationships in Contemporary Tokyo.”

John Traphagan (UT-Austin) “Ancestral Dreams, Religion, and Well-Being among Older Japanese.”

Anne Walthall (University of California, Irvine) “Ooku: Japanese Palace Women and Court Life in Comparative Perspec- From L to R: students Laura Brueck, Lainie Crease, Tejal Shah and “Women and Gender”

tive.” student conference co-organizer Martha Selby enjoy pizza and a lively debate.

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Conferences

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In February 2001, Center professor Martha Ann Selby organized a two-day symposium entitled “The Body in In- dian Medicine,” based on her course of the same name. This well-attended interdisciplinary event included papers and discussions by classicists, anthro- pologists, and specialists in aging and ge- riatrics. Papers were delivered by Joseph Alter (University of Pittsburgh), Lawrence Cohen (University of Califor- nia, Berkeley), Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University), Dominik Wujastyk (Wellcome Institute, London), McKim Marriott (University of Chicago), and Martha Ann Selby. Students had the rare opportunity to interact with these scholars, whose published works consti- tuted the readings on the syllabus. Taiwan Conference Organizer Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang (R) with guest speaker Michelle Yeh at the “Taiwan Studies at the Millennium: State of the A special panel discussion entitled “Cri- Field” Conference held August 17-18, 2001. sis in U.S.-China Relations?” was held in April 2001. The panel, chaired by Sumit Ganguly, included a number of organized by Yvonne Chang (Asian In September 2001, the Center co- specialists in Asian politics and security: Studies), Avron Boretz (Asian Studies), hosted an international three-day con- Ross Terrill (Government), Xuecheng Tse-min Lin (Government), and Meng- ference, “Urdu Scholarship in Liu (visiting professor in Asian Studies fen Su (East Asia Librarian). With over Transnational Perspective,” to- from the China Institute of Interna- a dozen scholars presenting on interdis- gether with Columbia University’s tional Studies, Beijing), Gordon Bennett ciplinary topics, the goal was to form a Southern Asian Institute. The venue (Government), and Phillip Dumont community of scholars which could be- was the Kellogg Center at the School of (M.A. Candidate, Asian Studies, and come a professional organization de- International and Public Affairs, Colum- Major in the US Army). voted to Taiwan studies. The Associate bia. The event publicly recognized Pro- Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, fessor C. M. Naim, recently retired from In May, the Center sponsored the Third Brian Roberts, gave the opening re- the University of Chicago, and his con- Annual Student Conference on marks. Gary Seaman (University of tributions to Urdu and South Asian Women's Studies. This series of Southern California), Robert Weller studies as a teacher, scholar, and trans- events is intended to give students a fo- ( University), William Parish lator. Naim delivered the keynote ad- rum for meeting and discussing issues (University of Chicago), Murray dress on “Ghalib’s Delhi: A Shamelessly of gender outside the classroom. Stu- Rubinstein (CUNY Baruch College), Jo- Revisionist Look at Two Popular Meta- dents drawn from Margherita Zanasi's seph Allen (University of Minnesota), phors.” Twelve established scholars and “Women and Gender in China” and Leo Ching (Duke University), Yomi three Ph.D. candidates from fields such Martha Selby's “The Body in Indian Braester (University of Washington), as literature, religion, history, and Medicine and Myth” participated in the Jason Kuo (University of Maryland), postcolonial studies presented papers event. Three students from each class Michelle Yeh (University of California, organized into four panels: “Pillars of presented short papers comparing the Davis), T.J. Cheng (College of William Urdu Poetry: Revisiting the Greats,” experience of women in China and In- and Mary), John Hsieh (University of “Intertextuality in Narrative and Popu- dia and placing them in a comparative South Carolina), and Steve Phillips lar Performance,” “Women Studied: Fe- perspective. The papers were followed (Townson University) presented papers. male Literacy and Authorship,” and by a lively discussion on the similarities John Traphagan (Asian Studies), “Media and Migration: Urdu in the Me- and differences in the experience of Margherita Zanasi (Asian Studies), and tropolis.” Two roundtables were also or- women in China and India. Philip Paolino (Government) served as ganized dealing with “Urdu in America: chairpersons. The presenters at the con- The Last Forty Years” and “The Future A major two-day conference on Taiwan ference were matched with commenta- of Urdu Studies.” The more than 200 studies was held at the Center in Au- tors outside their own fields, which pro- participants who attended the confer- gust, 2001. “Taiwan Studies at the duced lively and constructive discus-

Millennium: State of the Field,” was sions. continued on page 15

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Kamran Asdar Ali (Anthropology) sition. Brereton is a leading scholar on ter for the History joins us from the University of Roches- Vedic religion and literature. Not only of Science; the ter as Assistant Professor of Anthropol- has he worked in Vedic and Sanskrit lit- year before he was ogy. Ali’s research interests lie in the erature, he is also conversant with an NEH Fellow at areas of health, gender, post-colonial Avestan, Greek, and Latin. Bringing this the Institute for studies, and labor history. His disserta- background to bear on his current work, Advanced Study tion research was conducted in Egypt Brereton and Stephanie Jamison of in Princeton. Be- and focused on the country’s family Harvard University are producing the fore that he held planning program. His monograph on first complete scholarly translation of post-doctoral fel- the subject is being published by the the Rgveda into English in over a cen- lowships at University of Texas Press in its Middle tury. Harvard Univer- East series in spring of 2002. sity, University of While Brereton’s research areas focus on Roger Hart California at Ber- Since 1998 Ali has been engaged in a ancient Indian history and religion, his keley, and Stan-ford University. Hart has long-term study of Pakistan’s labor his- academic background is diverse. Not lived six years in China—four as a tory. For this he has received funding only are his two advanced degrees in teacher with Stanford's Volunteers in from the Institute of Asian Studies at Religious Studies, but Brereton initially Asia, one as a student at Peking Univer- Leiden in the Netherlands. Concur- began his academic career as a student sity, and one conducting archival re- rently Ali is also finishing a two-year of New Testament studies, later branch- search under an ACLS fellowship. He term as co-coordinator of the Project on ing into Hellenistic Studies and pre-Is- has two books in process: "Western Tourism in the Southern Mediterranean, lamic Iran. Learning" in Seventeenth-Century China: A funded by the European University In- Microhistorical Approach to World History, stitute in Florence, Italy. He was also a and an edited volume Cultural Studies of Member of the Institute for Advanced Maggie Chiang Chinese Science, Technology, and Medicine. Study at Princeton in 1998-99. (Asian Studies/ This second book is connected to an in- Chinese) joins the ternational conference Hart is organiz- Dr. Ali is currently teaching a graduate Center as an In- ing at the University of Chicago, The seminar on nationalism and gender structor in Chi- Disunity of Chinese Science. Before which incorporates readings on South nese language and going to China, Hart earned his B.S. Asia and the Middle East. In the spring, literature. from MIT and M.S. from Stanford in he is offering a course, “Culture, Power, mathematics. and History.” In this class, as well as in Chiang is com- his research, he seeks to investigate fur- pleting her disser- Hart's main research areas are tradi- ther the link between South Asia and tation, “Hsi-yu- tional China, history of science, and the Middle East, through focusing on Maggie Chiang Chi (Journey to critical theory. Each year he will offer issues of labor migration and Islamist the West) and the survey courses on East Asia and tradi- political movements. Renewal of Words,” in the Department tional China, as well as an upper-level of East Asian Studies at Princeton Uni- course on late imperial China. He also versity. Drawing from Chinese and will offer graduate seminars on critical Joel Brereton Western criticism on and theories of the theory. This year Hart will teach "Dis- (Asian Studies/ novel, the dissertation attempts to de- unity of Language, Science, and Cul- Sanskrit) comes velop a critical model to account for the ture"; next year he will teach "Imagined to the University diverse linguistic registers that are as- Unities: Nations, Civilizations, Moder- of Texas from the similated and transformed by this late nities." For more information, see Hart's University of Mis- sixteenth-century novel. Chiang’s teach- web page at: uts.cc.utexas.edu/~hisweb/ souri, where he ing and research interests are in pre- hart. was an Associate modern Chinese literature and drama. Professor of Reli- This semester she is offering a course gious Studies. on classical Chinese and a course on Veena Naregal (Radio/Television/Film) Brereton’s special- Chinese thought and culture. joins the Center and the Department of izations are San- Radio/Television/Film as a Senior Lec- Joel Brereton skrit, Vedic litera- turer at UT. She received her Ph.D. ture and ritual, and Indian religion. His Roger Hart joins the University of from the Department of Politics at the broader interests are the relationship be- Texas as an Assistant Professor in the School of Oriental and African Studies, tween ritual and text in history, literary Department of History. Last year he University of London. Prior to her ar- approaches to the study of religious was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the rival, Naregal was at the Indian Institute

texts, and ancient Indian poetic compo- University of Chicago's Fishbein Cen- of Economic Growth, University of

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Delhi where, under the auspices of the Becoming American: Indian Immigrants, Ratan Tata Post-doctoral Fellowship, Social Work, and the Practices of Citizenship New Courses: she was working on a project about the in the Late Twentieth-Century United intersections of media, corruption, and States. Rudrappa’s next project will in- 2000-2001 politics in Mumbai. Naregal’s research vestigate temporary workers in the US, interests include language and politics comparing Indian computer program- Eighteen new Asian stud- in western India, the early history of the mers and engineers on H-1B visas with modern Marathi theatre, and contem- Mexican unskilled laborers. ies courses were added porary media and cultural politics in this past year. These India. She has published articles on ranged from “Female television, theatre, and language poli- John Trapha- tics in a variety of noted journals and gan, (Asian Stud- Voices in Urdu Literature” edited volumes. Her first monograph, ies/Japanese) joins (S. Akbar Hyder), “Politics Language Politics and the Public Sphere: us from California and the Novel in South Western India under Colonialism, is now State University, Asia” (Sumit Ganguly), to available from Permanent Black, New Fullerton, as an Delhi (2001). This work focuses on the Assistant Profes- “The Body in Indian Medi- implications of the bilingual relation- sor in Asian Stud- cine and Myth” (Martha ship between English and Marathi for ies. Traphagan, Ann Selby). the construction of a modern intelligen- who received his tsia in western India. Her forthcoming Ph.D. from the work deals with regional political for- University of Pitts- John Traphagan The Dean of Liberal Arts mation in Maharashtra. burgh in Anthro- donated generously to a pology, is a specialist in Japanese culture This fall Naregal is teaching a new and society. He is a Faculty Associate special graduate course course, “Media and Culture in South in the Population Research Center here on “Security Issues in the Asia,” which focuses on media trends and a Research Affiliate of the Popula- New Millennium” featur- in independent India. In the spring, she tion Studies Center at the University of will be offering three courses: the “His- Michigan. ing four distinguished vis- tory of Indian Cinema,” “Cinema, Tele- iting professors. While vision and Politics in South Asia,” and While Traphagan’s current interests are these courses will be of- “Modern Literatures and Publics in aging, dementia and disability, and mi- South Asia.” gration in Japan, he is also concerned fered again in the coming with the broader theoretical issues in- years, a number of new volved in medical anthropology and an- classes are also in the pro- Sharmila Rudrappa (Asian-Ameri- thropological demography throughout cess of being introduced. can Studies/Sociology), having com- Asia. Traphagan has lived three years in pleted her Ph.D. from the University of Japan conducting fieldwork on a variety Wisconsin-Madison, joins both the of topics. He has authored one book, For a list of courses avail- Center for Asian-American Studies and edited two, and written over a dozen ar- able or to search our the Department of Sociology as an As- ticles. His most recent works are De- sistant Professor. Her specializations are mographic Change and the Family in Japan’s courses database, visit our race and ethnicity in the United States, Aging Society, with John Knight (Albany: website: gender, and social theory. While at SUNY, forthcoming) and Taming Madison, Rudrappa taught in Women’s Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Se- Studies and the Department of Sociol- nility in Japan (Albany: SUNY, 2000). asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/ ogy. She is currently teaching “Special He is working on a new monograph en- cas/pages/courses.html Topics on Race: Nation and Citizen” titled Religion, Illness, and Aging in Japan. and “South Asian-Americans: Work, Currently offering general courses on Family, Community, Nation.” In the Japanese culture and society, Traphagan spring, she plans to teach social theory. is planning more specialized courses for Her long-term teaching interests are in the future, such as “Japanese Concepts the areas of citizenship and Asian- of Self and Body,” “Asian Concepts of American families. Death and Dying,” and “Gender and Power in Japanese Society.” Rudrappa is currently preparing a book-

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Meyerson Fellowships were awarded to Gardner Harris (Ph.D, Asian Cultures and Languages), Scott Harvey (Ph.D., Asian Cultures and Languages), Ayesha Ray, Jarrod Whitaker (Ph.D., Asian Cultures and Languages), Helaena White (M.A., Asian Studies), and Nisha Shanghavi (M.A., Asian From L to R: Graduate students Laura Brueck, Lisa Edwin, Kristen Rudisill, Gardner Harris, and Studies). David Brick with Center Director Kathryn Hansen at the Spring Awards ceremony. Mark McClish (Ph.D., Asian Cultures GRADUATE NEWS and Languages) received a Liberal Arts summer 2001 to attend a conference in Recruiting Fellowship. In October 2001 six UT graduate Japan (see related article, page 5). students and faculty member Rajesh Rachel Meyer (Ph.D., Anthropology) Bhatt (Linguistics) attended the South South Asia: successfully defended her dissertation Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable Michael Bednar (Ph.D., History) and “Intimate Landscapes: Imagining (SALA) in Konstanz, Germany. Lisa Owen (Ph.D., Art and Art Femininity, Family, and Home in North Shannon Finch, Er-Xin Lee, Sadaf History) received Fulbright-Hays India.” Munshi, Brian J. Reese, Christina dissertation grants for 2000-2001. Munshi, Brian J. Reese, Christina Continued on page 13 Willis, and Henrietta Yang received travel grants from the Meyerson Fund Peter Kvetko (Ph.D., Ethno- and Dean of Liberal Arts’ office. Most musicology) and Steven Lindquist Aggarwal Endowed of the papers grew out of a new course (Ph.D., Asian Cultures and Languages) created by Bhatt and supported by a received American Institute of Indian Scholarship Established Course Development Grant from the Studies Junior Fellowships for 2000- Center. 2001. Dr. J.K. Aggarwal (Professor, Electrical and For info on SALA, see: Sarah Green (Ph.D., Asian Cultures ling.uni.konstanz.de/pages/conferences/ and Languages), Sandya Hewa- Computer Engineering) and sala01 manne (Ph.D., Anthropology) , and Dr. Shanti Aggarwal Guha Shankar (Ph.D., Anthropology) (Research Scientist, China: all received UT Continuing Fellowships Biomedical Engineering) Hyun-ho Joo (Ph.D., Asian Cultures for 2001-2002. have donated generously to and Languages) received a China Endowment Fellowship. Steven Lindquist received a establish a new scholarship Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship at the University of Texas. Seongyeop Kim (M.A., Asian Studies) for 2001-2002, and has deferred a UT The J.K. and Shanti J. and Ying Xiao (Ph.D., Asian Cultures Continuing Fellowship until 2002-2003. Aggarwal Endowed and Languages) received University Karline McLain (Ph.D., Asian Scholarship in Indian Studies Preemptive fellowships for 2001-2002. Cultures and Languages) also received a Fulbright-Hays dissertation grant for provides funding for Ying Xiao and Yi Xu (Ph.D., Asian 2001-2002. She was admitted to graduate students in liberal Cultures and Languages) both received candidacy in August 2001. arts focusing on Indian Liberal Arts Recruiting Fellowships for studies. The Center for 2001-2002. Ayesha Ray (M.A., Government) Asian Studies graciously received an Aggarwal Endowed Japan: Scholarship in Indian Studies. thanks them for their kind Kukhee Choo (Ph.D., Asian Cultures support. and Languages) received a Liberal Arts 2001-2002 Foreign Language Area Recruiting Fellowship. Studies grants went to David Brick (M.A., Asian Studies), Laura Brueck Brian Ruh (M.A., Asian Studies) (M.A., Asian Studies), Lisa Edwin

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GRANTS Indo-Pakistani Conflict (Columbia Uni- A L U M N I N E W S versity Press, forthcoming). It will be Avron Boretz (Asian Studies) received simultaneously published as Conflict Neil DeVotta, who received his a post-doctoral research grant for 2001- Unending? The Indo-Pakistani Conflict Since Ph.D. from the Department of 2002 from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foun- 1947, by Oxford University Press, New Government in August 2001, is dation for International Scholarly Ex- Delhi. Ganguly is the editor of a new currently a Visiting Assistant Pro- change as well as a Dean’s Fellowship. journal, The India Review, to be published fessor at James Madison College, by Frank Cass and Company, London, Michigan State University. His Shama Gamkhar (LBJ School of Pub- solely focused on contemporary India. most recent article is on illiberal lic Affairs) received a Course Develop- The first issue will appear in January ment Grant from the Center to develop 2002. democracy and ethnic conflict in a new course “Environmental Economic Sri Lanka which will appear in Policy: Comparative Perspectives on Robert Hardgrave, Jr. (Government) the January 2002 issue of the U.S. and South Asia.” published Boats of Bengal: Eighteenth Cen- Journal of Democracy. tury Portraits by Balthazar Solvyns (New Kathryn Hansen (Asian Studies) held Delhi: Manohar, 2001). For more infor- Manu Bhagavan, who received an American Institute of Indian Stud- mation on Hardgrave and his publica- his Ph.D. from the Department ies Short-Term Senior Fellowship. She tions, see: asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/cas/ of History in May 1999, is cur- also received a ten-month residential rlh.html rently an Assistant Professor in Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute the Department of History and for Advanced Study for 2001-2002, W. Roger Louis (History) co-edited a Political Science at Manchester which she declined. book with Roger Owen titled The Revo- lutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958 to College in Indiana. His article Stephen Phillips (Philosophy) re- be published by the Woodrow Wilson “The Rebel Academy: Modernity ceived an American Institute of Indian Center Press and Tauris of London in and The Movement for a Univer- Studies Short-Term Senior Fellowship to January 2002. sity in Princely Baroda, 1908- complete a translation of a chapter of 1949” will appear in a forthcom- Gangesa’s Jewel of Reflection on the Truth Stephen Phillips (Philosophy) is pub- ing issue of the Journal of Asian (about Epistemology). lishing Gangesa on the “Inferential Studies. Undercutter” (Upadhi): Text, Translation, Martha Ann Selby (Asian Studies) re- and Explanation (New Delhi: Indian ceived grants from the National Endow- Council for Philosophical Research, Student news, continued from page 12 ment for the Humanities and from the forthcoming). American Council of Learned Societies Jarrod Whitaker (Ph.D., Asian for work on a new book titled Sanskrit Martha Ann Selby (Asian Studies) Cultures and Languages) published an Gynecologies: The Semiotics of Gender and published Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love article titled “Divine Weapons and Tejas Femininity in Sanskrit Medical Texts. Poems from Classical India (New York: in the Two Indian Epics,” Indo-Iranian OUP, 2000). Her A Circle of Six Seasons: Journal, vol.43, no.2 (Summer 2000). He Kamala Visweswaran (Anthro- A Selection from Old Tamil, Prakrit and was admitted to candidacy in August pology) was named a 2001-2002 Sanskrit Verse (New Delhi: Penguin 2001. Radcliffe Institute Fellow for research Books) is in press. on changing marriage practices and le- Phoenix Feng-huang Ying, who gal reform in colonial and post-colonial Stephen Slawek (Music) gave a sitar received her Ph.D. last year, is now an India. recital of Indian classical music, accom- Assistant Professor in the Department panied by tabla virtuoso Pandit Swapan of Taiwanese literature at the National PUBLICATIONS Chaudhuri in March. In April, Slawek Cheng Kung University (Tainan, played bonang barung, bonang panerus and Taiwan). Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (Asian gender barung in the second recital given Studies) published We nxue changyu de by the School of Music’s Javanese UNDERGRADUATE NEWS bianqian: dangdai Taiwan xiaoshuo lun Gamelan Ensemble. [Changes in the Literary Field: Contempo- Richa Gulati (ANS/Plan II Honors) rary Fiction of Taiwan] (Unitas Publish- was selected from students at over 300 ing House, 2001), a collection of essays colleges to receive one of 70 Harry S. in Chinese. She also guest-edited a spe- Tr uman Scholarships. The Truman cial issue on Taiwan literature for the Scholarship provides funds for graduate Hong-Kong-based Journal of Modern Lit- or professional study for students who erature in Chinese. wish to pursue careers in public service. Sumit Ganguly (Asian Studies) is pub-

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Indian Classical nal concert was by Tejendra South and Asian Majumdar on the

Music Circle Hindustani sarod in April.

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others combined to bring in talent from around the world ten years to bring top-notch Bricks and Lyrics

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Tomoko Watanabe Traphagan (Asian Studies/Japanese) joins UT The Center for Asian Studies has launched its new website. as a Lecturer in Japanese. Formerly contained within the Asian Studies Network Infor- Traphagan completed her Ph.D. in mation Center (ASNIC) site, CAS hopes that its new website Foreign Language Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She will provide a convenient way to access the information and teaches second and third-year level resources available from the Center for Asian Studies. Japanese. Please take some time to visit it and see what is available! Visiting Faculty 2001-2002 asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/cas/index.htm Every year the Center for Asian Studies and the Department of Asian Studies welcome distin- conferences, continued from page 8 guished scholars to our team as Vis- iting Faculty. During the 2001-2002 ence came from India, Pakistan, Germany, Belgium, and the United States. Kathryn academic year, our visiting faculty Hansen (Asian Studies, UT-Austin) was chair of the organizing committee and are: discussant for the panel on intertextuality. Gail Minault (History, UT-Austin) de- livered a paper on “From Akhbar to News: The Development of the Urdu Press in Susan Dolling, Lecturer (Fall 2001 Early 19th-Century Delhi.” S. Akbar Hyder (Asian Studies, UT-Austin) presented only, Chinese Studies), Hee-jong “To You Your Cremation, To Me My Burial: The Ideals of Intercommunal Har- Joo,Visiting Associate Professor, mony in Premchand’s Karbala” and spoke on the future of Urdu studies. In addi- (Korean Studies), and Chiho tion to UT-Austin and Columbia, the conference was sponsored by the Center for Sawada, Lecturer (East Asian His- South Asian Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, the Berkeley Urdu tory/Korean Studies). Language Program in Pakistan, the Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, the South Asia Program at Cornell University, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. Selected papers will be published in a Festschrift dedicated to Naim. For full details of the conference program, see asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/cas/pages/urduconf.pdf.  Student news, continued from page 13

Alison Mitchell (ANS) received the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial If you would like information for Graduate degree programs, including Scholarship. financial aid, please visit our website, asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/cas/pages/degrees.html Jonathan Hubble (CHI) and Alison Mitchell both received the Asian Studies Scholarship for Study Abroad. Outreach Asia activities and resource lending library: asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/outreach/index.htm Ryan Grady (ANS) and Tim Sutton or email us at [email protected] (CHI) received the Republic of China Ministry of Education Fellowships for To be added to the Newsletter mailing list please fill out and return this Study in Taiwan. form by mail or fax (512.471.4469) or email us at [email protected] Nancy Hsia (CHI) was named Outstanding Chinese Language Student. Emily Chung (ANS), Alison Little (ANS), and Shanti Nulu (ANS) Name: were named Outstanding Graduating Address: Seniors in Asian Studies.

Simone Heron (JPN), Linda Takamine (JPN), and Joshua Waggener (JPN) were named Outstanding Graduating Seniors in email:

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