Selected New Titles in Ames Library, October 2019

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SELECTED NEW TITLES IN AMES LIBRARY

OCTOBER 2019

Listing books added in September

Note:  Because of a supplier’s technical difficulties, the flow of new books was restricted for some time.  It will pick up again soon.  Now is a good time to note that we are also getting a steady flow of e-books on South Asia.  Because of the way we get them, it is impossible to capture them and add them to a new titles list.  They will be there when you search the Libraries holdings at https://www.lib.umn.edu/ and you can use the filters on the right-hand side to filter to Available Online.

The negotiation of personal identity. Dhanda, Meena, (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr Müller 2008.)

Ames Library BD236.D47 2008

Water histories of South Asia: the materiality of liquescence. Ray, Sugata (Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge, 2019.)

Ames Library DS339.W38 2019

Caste matters. Yengde, Suraj, (India: Penguin Viking, 2019.)

Ames Library DS422.C3 Y46 2019

Spotted goddesses: Dalit women's agency-narratives on caste and gender violence. Singh, Roja, (Zürich: Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Wien, [2018])

Ames Library HQ1743.S537 2018

Glimpses of paintings from Kalā Maṇḍapa Jñāna Pravāha. (Varanasi: Jñāna-Pravāha Centre for Cultural Studies and Research 2002.)

Ames Library Quarto ND1337.I5 G6 2002

New in 2019: AIIS welcomes applications with a substantial digital component that require research in India

New in 2019: AIIS welcomes applications with a substantial digital component that require research in India. 

Short-term grant award periods range from 1 to 4 months and include maintenance stipend, research allowance, and international travel.  No dependent support or travel is possible under the short-term grants.  Awards are designed for support of research projects and will not be granted to applicants seeking travel funds for conference participation.

THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS DECEMBER 31.  Applicants use the regular application located on the web site www.indiastudies.org (click on fellowship application).  Applications must be filled out in full to satisfy Selection Committee requirements. Application materials and recommendation letters must be submitted using the applications portal. A check or money order for $25.00, made payable to the American Institute of Indian Studies must be sent to AIIS to cover the processing fee.

All fellowship recipients must have received their certificate of affiliation with an Indian institution prior to commencing their fellowship. AIIS will obtain these certificates for fellows. We plan to notify all applicants about the Selection Committee’s decisions in the spring.  Fellowship funds will be available to complete the project during a 19-month period from June 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021.. 

AIIS summer 2020 and academic year 2020-2021 language programs in India

The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2020 and academic year 2020-2021 language programs. Programs to be offered include Hindi (Jaipur), Bengali (Kolkata), Punjabi (Chandigarh), Tamil (Madurai); Marathi (Pune), Urdu (Lucknow), Telugu (Hyderabad), Gujarati (Ahmedabad), Kannada (Mysore), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuram), Mughal Persian (Lucknow), Sanskrit (Pune) and Pali/Prakrit (Pune). We will offer other Indian languages upon request. For summer Hindi we require the equivalent of one year of prior Hindi study. For summer Urdu, we require the equivalent of one year of either Hindi or Urdu. We can offer courses at all levels, including beginning, in other Indian languages for the summer. Summer students should apply for FLAS or other funding if available at their institutions to cover the costs of the program. 

Funding for Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu is available through the U.S. State Department's CLS program (see www.clscholarship.org). AIIS has some funding available for summer students who cannot procure their own funding. This funding is allocated on the basis of the language committee's ranking of the applicants. AIIS will award language fellowships, on a competitive basis, to academic year and fall semester students, which would cover all expenses for the program. Those eligible for these fellowships are U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will have had the equivalent of at least two years of prior language study by September 2020. AIIS offers Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Urdu and other languages at all levels for the fall and academic year although fellowships would only be available for students who will have had the equivalent of two years of prior language study by the beginning of the program. AIIS will offer funding to masters students to complete a capstone project of their choosing upon completion of the summer program. 

The application deadline is December 31, 2019. Applications can be downloaded from the AIIS web site at www.indiastudies.org. For more information: Phone: 773-702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.

Program Flyers

Launch of South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to the public launch of the South Asia Open Archives online! The launch takes place at The Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison on Friday, October 18 from 12:15-1:45pm Central. The launch event will be held at University Room AB of the Concourse Hotel (second floor) from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm Central Time. Light snacks and refreshments will be available. (Even if you can’t attend, the SAOA U — saoa.crl.edu  —  will go live on that date as well.)

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a rich and growing curated collection of key research materials from and about the region of South Asia, with historical and contemporary sources covering a variety of subjects in English and other South Asian languages. SAOA preserves, digitizes and makes its content freely accessible to the world on the web. It is the product of a collaborative initiative of a broad consortium of research libraries (in South Asia and around the world) and their respective South Asian Studies librarians. It is enriched by substantial contributions of content, human and material resources from a community of libraries, research centers, archives and other institutions partnering to bring these resources out for global scholarship and pedagogy. Administratively hosted by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and presented online for open access in partnership with JSTOR/Ithaka, SAOA aims to serve as a critical node in open access scholarship.

The culmination of five years of intensive work by a dedicated core of stakeholders and widespread partners, the SAOA launch at Madison will feature live demonstrations of SAOA’s enhanced database functionalities, and will highlight some of our unique historical collections, with time for questions, one-on-one interactions, and opportunities for hands-on exploration. The event is open to all interested parties, so please spread the word among faculty, scholars, students and librarians at your institution.

As we prepare for this exciting event, the SAOA Executive Board wants to acknowledge that SAOA’s impressive progress wouldn’t have been possible without the active moral and material support for and engagement in this initiative by many of you and your institutions. Please feel free to contact us (or SAOA’s Digital Librarian Neel Agrawal (nagarawal@crl.edu) if you have any questions or suggestions. If you have specific content ideas for adding to SAOA’s collection, please use this online suggestion form. Thanks so much and looking forward to seeing you at the SAOA launch event in Madison!

Best regards,

Aruna Magier (NYU)
and
David Faust (University of Minnesota)

Co-Chairs of SAOA