Dr. Kifah Hanna presents "Love & Desire in Lebanese War Literature"
Date: Monday March 2, 2015
Time: 3:30 pm
Place: 113 Folwell Hall
Kifah Hanna presents new trends of unique, even radical, literary representations of gender and sexuality as mediated by the Lebanese civil war. She investigates literary expressions of love and desire by examining subordinate masculinities as a novel venue for such inquires.
Kifah Hanna is Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, CT. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Her research and teaching interests broadly include twentieth and twenty-first
century Arabic literature especially women's writings; more specifically gender and sexuality, war literature, world literature, postcolonial theory, film studies, and cultural studies. Her book manuscript The Aesthetics of Levantine War Literature: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
Kifah Hanna is applying for the tenure-track position in Arabic Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Asian Languages & Literatures.
Friday, February 27, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
CFP: summer fellowships in India with the Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network
The Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRA) is pleased to announce a fellowship program to conduct field research in India during the summer of 2015.
Our research program seeks
to understand the diversity of livelihood systems in rainfed areas and
the role of public investments in enabling adaptive responses that lead
to improvements
in well-being and human development.
We invite post-baccalaureate students
anywhere in the world to apply for the fellowship and contribute towards
this exciting research agenda.
We seek innovative proposals which seek to undertake research on one or more themes:
The fellowship will start on June 1, 2015 and culminate on August 14, 2015. The fellowship will cover basic living expenses for the duration of the program as well as travel to and from field sites within India. Fellows will also be provided logistical support in the field sites for housing and local travel through our partners.
Each fellow will produce a paper based
on the research conducted during the fellowship to be published as part
of our working papers series. We also hope to curate edited volumes or
special journal issues based on
this body of work.
The applications are now open for the RRA Summer Fellowship program. The deadline is March 9, 2015. We will notify the results on or before March 30, 2015.
Please contact Prachee Sinha at rrasummerfellows@gmail.com for any additional questions. For detailed information
and to apply please visit our website http://rrafellows. weebly.com/
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Talk: Kiss both his eyes for me / Take good care of my prince”: The Reception of a Safavid Child Hostage at the Ottoman Court
Kiss both his eyes for me / Take good care of my prince”:
The Reception of a Safavid Child Hostage at the Ottoman Court
by
Sinem Arcak Casale
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Place: 425 Blegen Hall
Description:
Sinem Casale, assistant professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, focuses her research on the history and visual culture of early modern Islamic courts (Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals), with a special focus on issues of exchange, materiality, gift-giving practices, courtly rituals, and picture theory. Prof. Casale received a PhD from University of Minnesota in art history, with a thesis, "Gifts in Motion: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange." Based on that study, her current book project investigates the ceremonial exchange of gifts between the Ottoman and Safavid courts, and explores the potential of objects to act as agents in diplomatic negotiations.
Poster: https://netfiles.umn.edu/ul/Divisions/AcaProg/ArtsHum/Ames%20Library%20of%20South%20Asia/Public/Sinem%20Arcak%20Casale%20Poster.pdf
Contact:
- Name: Erik Farseth
- E-mail: farse003@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-626-6342
- Sponsored by: Art History
Talk: Tantric Buddhist Art at the MIA
Tantric Buddhist Art at the MIA: From India to
Southeast Asia and Tibet
by
Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
Date: Thursday, February 26
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Wells Fargo Community Room, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Online: http://new.artsmia.org/event/
What is tantric Buddhism, and how did it spread across Asia? The MIA’s collection includes exceptional works of Buddhist art from the regions of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas that document how tantric Buddhism spread north from India to Nepal and Tibet and east to Cambodia. Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will show how these two regions interpreted Indian esoteric Buddhism in widely divergent ways. She will also show art from neighboring regions where tantra was not as widely accepted to present a broad picture of how Buddhism took hold, developed, and flourished after its mysterious demise in India, the land of its birth, during the13th century.
Prior to joining the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2012, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla was curator of Asian art at the San Diego Museum of Art. A graduate of Smith College, she earned her PhD from Harvard University; her dissertation was published as History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, c. 150 BCE–100 CE.
To register, call (612) 870-6323 or reserve online: https://tickets.artsmia.org/
Friday, February 6, 2015
Selected New Titles in Ames Library - February 2015
Below you can read a list of selected new titles added to the Ames Library of South Asia in January 2015.
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SELECTED NEW TITLES IN AMES LIBRARY
FEBRUARY 2015
Listing titles added in January
Listing titles added in January
NOTE: We are experimenting with ways to again begin
creating new titles lists. As in the
past, these are in order by call number but, because of the way the records are
displayed in our system, the title comes first.
I am happy to receive comments, suggestions, corrections, etc.
David Faust: faust011@umn.edu
Locks,
Mahabharata and mathematics: an exploration of unexpected parallels. V. Raghunathan. (Noida: HarperCollins, 2013)
Ames Library BL1138.27.R344 2013
The Bhagavad
gita: a new translation, contexts, criticism. Translated by Gavin Flood and
Charles Martin; edited by Gavin Flood, Oxford University. (New York, NY: W.W.
Norton & Company, 2015)
Ames Library BL1138.62.E5 2015
Swami
Vivekananda and South India: a collection of seminar papers. Edited by Sourav Chakraborty. (Thiruvananthapuram:
International School of Dravidian Linguistics, 2013)
Ames Library BL1280.292.V58 S933 2013
Beyond the
private world: Indian women in the public sphere. Edited by Subrata Bagchi. (Delhi: Primus
Books 2014.)
Ames Library BL2015.W6 B49 2014
Leading from the
heart: Sufi principles at work.
Moid Siddiqui. (New Delhi, India; SAGE, 2014)
Ames Library BP190.5.L4 S53 2014
Indo-Pacific
region: political and strategic prospects.
Editors Rajiv K. Bhatia and Vijay Sakhuja. (New Delhi: Vij Books India:
2014)
Ames Library DS341.I54 2014
Four miles to
freedom: escape from a Pakistani POW camp.
Faith Johnston. (Noida: Random House India, 2013)
Ames Library DS388.J64 2013
Two Arabic
travel books. Volume editors, Philip F. Kennedy, Shawkat M.
Toorawa. (New York: New York University Press, 2014)
Ames Library DS409.S5713 2014
Dalits in 21st
century: Ambedkarite perspective.
K. Jamanadas. (Delhi: Kalpaz Publications 2014.)
Ames Library DS422.C3 J36 2014
Impact of
induced technological changes on the agrarian situation in the tribal villages
of Andhra Pradesh. Kattoju Ravi. (Kolkata: Anthropological
Survey of India Government of India 2010.)
Ames Library DS432.B275 R38 2010
Christians in
South Indian villages, 1959-2009: decline and revival in Telangana. John B. Carman & Chilkuri Vasantha Rao. (Grand
Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014)
Ames Library DS432.C55 C37 2014
Contesting
colonialism and separatism: Muslims of Muzaffarpur since 1857. Mohammad Sajjad. (New Delhi: Primus Books,
2014)
Ames Library DS432.M84 S252 2014
India-China
borderlands: conversations beyond the centre.
Nimmi Kurian. (New Delhi, India; SAGE, 2014)
Ames Library DS450.C6 K87 2014
India-Poland
relations in the 21st century: vistas for future cooperation. Edited by Vijay Sakhuja, Dinoj K. Upadhyay,
Patryk Kugiel. (New Delhi: Indian Council of World Affairs; 2014)
Ames Library DS450.P7 I53 2014
A memoir of the
Mughal Empire: events of 1757-1761.
Jean Law de Lauriston; translated from the original French by G.S.
Cheema. (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2014)
Ames Library DS461.8 L33 2014
International
boundaries in North-East India: community, culture and stress. Bibhash Dhar, Ganesh Ch. Ojah. (New Delhi:
Lakshi Publishers & Distributors, 2014)
Ames Library DS480.84.D435 2014
Dissenting
knowledges, open futures: the multiple selves and strange destinations of Ashis
Nandy. Edited by Vinay Lal. (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2013)
Ames Library DS480.84.D572 2013
Anticipating
India: the best of national interest.
Shekhar Gupta. (Noida: HarperCollins Publishers India 2014.)
Ames Library DS480.853.G87 2014
Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar's influences on Mahatma Gandhi.
By Damodar Balawant Khoday. (Bangalore: Prasaranga, Bangalore
University, 2010)
Ames Library DS481.A6 K53 2010
The accidental
prime minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh. Sanjaya Baru. (Gurgaon, India: Penguin Books
India/Viking, 2014)
Ames Library DS481.M3537 B37 2014
Founding an
empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840: climate, commerce, polity. Gunnel Cederlöf. (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2014)
Ames Library DS483.7.C43 2014
On a shoestring
to Coorg: an experience of southern India.
Dervla Murphy. (London: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2014)
Ames Library DS484.2.M87 2014
A concise
history of South India: issues and interpretations. Edited by Noboru Karashima. (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2014)
Ames Library DS484.5.C66 2014
Archaeology and
art of Ganga, Gandak and Kosi Basin, Bihar: a felicitation volume in honour of
Dr. P. Gupta. Edited by O.P. Jaiswal, Bijoy Kumar
Choudhary. (New Delhi: Manak Publications 2014.)
Ames Library DS485.B54 A73 2014
Narendra Modi: a
political biography. Andy Marino. (Noida: HarperCollins Publishers
India, 2014)
Ames Library DS485.G882 M63547 2014
Kashmir's
narratives of conflict: identity lost in space and time. Manisha Gangahar. (Shimla: Indian Institute
of Advanced Study, 2013)
Ames Library DS485.K27 G334 2013
State, society
& governance: a reproduction of fifty articles on different issues already
published. Seram Neken. (Imphal: Ashangba Communication
2012.)
Ames Library DS485.M48 N45 2012
Celebrating
Bihar: the heritage of Nalanda.
Nishant Tiwary. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Ames Library DS485.N35 T59 2014
Interrogating
democracy and human rights: the Telangana people's movement. Jagannatham Begari. (Jaipur: Rawat
Publications, 2014)
Ames Library DS485.T4 B44 2014
Revolution in
Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People's War. Edited by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine. (New Delhi;
Oxford University Press, 2013)
Ames Library DS495.6.R48 2013
Introduction to
the nature, evolution and achievement of the middle-way policy. (Dharamsala:
Tibetan Women's Association 2011.)
Ames Library DS740.5.T5 I58 2011
Geopolitics of
the Indo-Pacific. Editors, Pradeep Kaushiva, Abhijit Singh. (New
Delhi: KW Publishers in association with National Maritime Foundation c2014.)
Ames Library DU29.N38 2014
The politics of
ethnicity in India, Nepal and China.
Edited by Marine Carrin, Pralay Kanungo, Gerard Toffin. (Delhi: Primus
Books 2014.)
Ames Library GN496.P65
2014
Mising folk
tales. Compiled and rendered into English by Tabu
Ram Taid. (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi 2013.)
Ames Library GR305.5.A87 M57 2013
Population,
health and development: perspectives on Uttarakhand. Editors, T.V. Sekher, Abhishek Singh, Sulabha
Parasuraman. (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2013)
Ames Library HB3640.U88 N38 2008
On a prayer. Yash Birla with Vishwaveer Singh. (New Delhi:
Shobhaa Dé Books 2014.)
Ames Library HC432.5.B57 A3 2014
Inclusive growth
in India. S. Gurusamy. (Chennai: MJP Publishers 2013.)
Ames Library HC433.N38 2013
Implosion:
India's tryst with reality. John
Elliott. (Noida: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014)
Ames Library HC435.3.E45 2014
Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Bihar. Vijay Kumar Gupta. (Ranchi: SK Pub Co 2014.)
Ames Library HD5710.85.I42 B54 2014
Globalization
and television: a study of the Indian experience, 1990-2010. Sunetra Sen Narayan. (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press 2014.)
Ames Library HE8700.9.I4 N37 2014
Indian sociology. Edited by Yogendra Singh. (New Delhi: Indian
Council of Social Science Research: 2014)
Ames Library HM477.I4 I53 2014
Pioneers of
sociology in India. Edited by Ishwar Modi. (Los Angeles: SAGE; 2014)
Ames Library HM477.I4 P56 2013
Contributions to
sociological theory. Edited by Vinay Kumar Srivastava. (Los
Angeles: SAGE; 2014)
Ames Library HM585.C6626 2013
Culture and
society. Edited by Susan Visvanathan. (Los Angeles;
SAGE 2014.)
Ames Library HM621.C85 2014
Sociology of
environment. Edited by Sukant K. Chaudhury. (Los Angeles:
SAGE; 2014)
Ames Library HM861.S636 2013
Sociological
probings in rural society. edited by
K.L. Sharma. (Los Angeles: SAGE; 2014)
Ames Library HN683.5.S627 2013
Shaping the
discourse: women's writings in Bengali periodicals, 1865-1947. Edited by Ipshita Chanda and Jayeeta Bagchi. (Kolkata:
School of Women's Studies Jadavpur University 2014.)
Ames Library HQ1744.B4 S53 2014
Sociology of childhood
and youth. Edited by Bula Bhadra. (Los Angeles: SAGE;
2014)
Ames Library HQ792.I5 S64 2013
Urbanity and
economy: the pre modern dynamics in eastern India. Edited by Ratnabali Chatterjee. (Kolkata:
Setu Prakashani [2013?])
Ames Library HT384.I4 U73 2013
Towards
sociology of dalits. Edited by Paramjit S. Judge. (Los Angeles:
SAGE; 2014)
Ames Library HT720.T694 2013
Self-help groups
and rural development. S. Bose. (Chennai: MJP Publishers 2013.)
Ames Library HV547.B67 2013
India's internal
security situation: present realities and future pathways. Namrata Goswami. (New Delhi: Institute for
Defence Studies and Analyses 2013.)
Ames Library HV6295.I4 G67 2013
Left radicalism
in India. Bidyut Chakrabarty. (Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge,
2015)
Ames Library HX393.5.C34 2015
Political
sociology of India. Edited by Anand Kumar. (Los Angeles; SAGE
2014.)
Ames Library JA76.P65 2014
Democracy and
the crisis of inequality. Zoya Hasan.
(New Delhi: Primus Books 2014.)
Ames Library JQ281.H37 2014
Changing
electoral politics in Delhi: from caste to class. Sanjay Kumar. (New Delhi: Sage Publications,
2013)
Ames Library JQ292.K86 2013
The military and
denied development in the Pakistani Punjab: an eroding social consensus. Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar;
with Sohaib Bodla. (London; Anthem Press, 2014)
Ames Library JQ629.A38 C585 2014
Managing
conflicts in India: policies of coercion and accommodation. Bidisha Biswas. (Lanham: Lexington Books,
2014)
Ames Library JZ5584.I4 B57 2014
Parental
encouragement as correlated to self-concept and learning behaviour of children. Tamanna Kaushal. (New Delhi: Manak
Publications 2014.)
Ames Library LB1051.K38 2014
Rayalaseema: the
royal realm: architecture and art of Southern Andhra Pradesh. Anna L. Dallapiccola, George Michell, Anila
Verghese; photographs by Surendra Kumar. (Mumbai, India: The Marg Foundation,
2014)
Ames Library Folio N7307.A53
D35 2014
The ramp: a
sculpture. By K.S. Radhakrishnan; text, R. Siva Kumar; photography, Prabuddha
Das Gupta. (New Delhi: Art Alive Gallery 2004.)
Ames Library Folio NB1010.R33
A4 2004
Family fiction. Sudhir Patwardhan. (Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery
2010.)
Ames Library Quarto ND1010.P3
A4 2010
Treasures from
India: jewels from the Al-Thani collection.
Navina Najat Haidar and Courtney Ann Stewart. (New York: The
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2014)
Ames Library Quarto NK7376.A1
H35 2014
Unmediated:
essays on media, culture, cinema.
Sashi Kumar. (New Delhi: Tulika Books 2014.)
Ames Library P94.65.I4 S27 2014
The literary
thing: history, poetry, and the making of a modern cultural sphere. Rosinka Chaudhuri. (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2014)
Ames Library PK1708.C43 2014
Of ghosts and
other perils: selected stories of Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay. Translated from the Bengali with a
biographical foreword and a critical afterword by Arnab Bhattacharya. (New Delhi:
Orient Blackswan 2013.)
Ames Library PK1718.M824 A6 2013
Panty. Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay; translated by Arunava
Sinha. (New Delhi: Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India, 2014)
Ames Library PK1731.13.A52 P36 2014
Defining the
indefinable: delimiting Hindi.
Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Frás (ed.)
Ames Library (Frankfurt am Main: PL Academic Research, 2014)
Ames Library PK1931.D43 2014
Sur's Ocean:
poems from the early tradition.
Surdas; edited by Kenneth E. Bryant; translated by John Stratton Hawley.
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015)
Ames Library PK1967.9.S9 A2 2015
The prisons we
broke. Baby Kamble; translated from the Marathi,
Jina Amucha by Maya Pandit. (Chennai, [India]: Orient Longman 2008.)
Ames Library PK2418.K26 J5613 2008
Teen kitap: some
thoughts. Hemang Dixit. (Kathmandu: Asha Dixit, 2012)
Ames Library PK2595.T44 2012
Sufi Lyrics. Bullhe Shah; edited and translated by
Christopher Shackle. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015)
Ames Library PK2659.B8 A2 2015
The Story of
Manu. Allasani Peddana; edited and translated by
Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 2015)
Ames Library PL4780.9.A43 M313 2015
History in
literature--literature as history: the issue revisited. Edited by Priyadarsee Chakraborty. (Kolkata:
Published by Levant Books in collaboration with Kulti College Burdwan c2012.)
Ames Library PN50.H57 2012
Amitav Ghosh:
champion of human rights. Kinshuk
Majumdar. (New Delhi: Prestige Books International c2014.)
Ames Library PR9499.3.G536 Z76 2014
Sociology of
science & technology in India.
Edited by Binay Kumar Pattnaik. (Los Angeles: SAGE; 2014)
Ames Library Q175.52.I4 S66 2013
Colonial medical
care in North India: gender, state, and society, c. 1830-1920. Samiksha Sehrawat. (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2013)
Ames Library RA395.I5 S44 2013
Sociology of
health. Edited by Madhu Nagla. (New Delhi, India:
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2013)
Ames Library RA418.S6737 2014
Economic impact
of HIV/AIDS on households. Savio P.
Falleiro. (New Delhi, India: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2014)
Ames Library RA643.8.F343 2014
Policy and
institutions in adaptation to climate change: case study on tree crop diversity
in China, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Main authors Yufang Su [and four others]; contributing authors Neera
Shrestha Pradhan [and four others]. (Kathmandu: International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development, 2013)
Ames Library Quarto SB171.C6
P65 2013
South Asia
forest tenure assessment. by Ganga
Ram Dahal and Krishna Adhikari. (Lalitpur: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Nepal, 2011)
Ames Library Quarto SD641.S68
2011
Does tenure
matter?: assessment of change in forest cover in Nepal. (Lalitpur:
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Nepal, 2011)
Ames Library Quarto SD657.N35
D64 2011
Nuclear energy
in India's energy security matrix: an appraisal. By Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi. (New Delhi:
Published in association with Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology by
Vij Books India c2014.)
Ames Library TK9103.C43 2014
The home and the
world: a view of Calcutta. Photographs
by Laura McPhee with a foreword by Amitav Ghosh and an essay by Romita Ray. (New
Haven: Yale University Press [2014])
Ames Library Quarto TR655.M398
2014
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Call for submissions Best Dissertation on Modern India Award
Sardar Patel Award 2014
Call for Submissions
The UCLA Center for India and South Asia announces the Sardar Patel Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India in 2014. The amount of the award is $10,000.
- The dissertation must be on any topic on Modern India (the dates of Modern India are defined as 1800 to the present).
- The topic must fall within the following fields of study: History, Social Sciences, Humanities, Education or the Fine Arts.
- Dissertations submitted for consideration will have been completed during the 2013-2014 academic year (1 September 2013 through 31 August 2014). In some cases dissertations completed very close to these dates may also be considered.
- The dissertation must have been written while enrolled at a U.S. accredited university in history, anthropology, sociology, literature, political science, or one of the other disciplines in the humanities, the arts, or the social sciences.
Applicants must submit ONE bound hard copy and one PDF of their dissertation. In addition, please send the following as PDF files: ONE copy of an abstract of 500-1000 words, ONE copy of your curriculum vitae, and a letter from their dissertation supervisor or department chair attesting to the completion of the dissertation during the period stipulated in item #3 (this is not a recommendation letter).
The deadline for submission of materials has been extended to include items postmarked by February 28, 2015. Submissions should be sent to:
Professor Akhil Gupta
Chair, Sardar Patel Award Committee
UCLA Center for India and South Asia
11387 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Chair, Sardar Patel Award Committee
UCLA Center for India and South Asia
11387 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Email: cisa@international.ucla.edu
Note: Dissertations will not be returned. By submitting their dissertation for consideration, candidates also agree to have their dissertation abstract posted on the CISA and Sardar Patel Association websites. The winner will be expected to attend an award conferral ceremony in Los Angeles in spring 2015 and is also expected to acknowledge the Sardar Patel Association in any publications related to the subject matter of the dissertation.
Inquiries regarding competition guidelines should be directed as follows:
Professor Akhil Gupta
Chair, Sardar Patel Award Committee
UCLA Center for India and South Asia
11387 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Email: akgupta@anthro.ucla.edu
UCLA Center for India and South Asia
11387 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Email: akgupta@anthro.ucla.edu
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