The two families and an archive that launched Pete Seeger Lecture by Anthony Seeger 21 Jan 6:30 PM Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre How did Pete Seeger become the charismatic banjo-playing musician impacting musicians around the world?

📢 Job Opportunity! The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a full-time lecturer in the Urdu language program for the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04633

🚨 Two Weeks Left! Apply now for the #AIIS Digital Scholarship Grants! Funding available for projects that demonstrate a sustained use of digital methodology and resources in the exploration of a research topic focused on India. indiastudies.org/aiis-digital-s…

📢 Job Opportunity! The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Hindi. Initial appointment, starting beginning of Fall semester 2025, is for 2 years, w/ the possibility of renewal. apply.interfolio.com/145629

Participants in AIIS language programs have careers that cross disciplines, methods, and modalities. Read works by AIIS language program alumni in health care, religious studies, and ethnography. Read more: mailchi.mp/f679b464f8e1/2… Apply by Jan 31! indiastudies.org/language-progr…

🎉 Congratulations to #AIIS fellow Jaideep Pandey for winning the 2024 Mozhi Prize for his translation of Sameena Nair’s 2022 story, ‘Kallo’! Read about the prize: scroll.in/article/107783…

Read the AIIS features from the US Embassy Span magazine and learn about how AIIS programs are the "gold standard" in instruction and experiences learning languages in an immersive environment in India! mailchi.mp/9fcd6689d298/a…

📢 Job Opportunity! The US Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program is now accepting applications for resident directors for the CLS summer 2025 Hindi and Urdu programs: Urdu resident director: paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php… Hindi resident director: paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php…

The CAORC- National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship is accepting applications through Jan 29! This #fellowship provides the opportunity for scholars to carry out research in the #humanities in 1 country with an Overseas Research Center. Stipends are $5,000 per month. caorc.org/neh-fellowship…

🚨 Upcoming deadline! Apply now for the #AIIS #Digital #India Learning Digital #Scholarship #grants for 2025! Open to projects that demonstrate a sustained use of digital methodology and resources in the exploration of a research topic focused on India. indiastudies.org/aiis-digital-s…

ICYMI! Videos up on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KjBq9d…

It's #StudyAbroadDay ! Where will your studies take you? Join #AIIS - whether you are a student, faculty, or a professional artist - for research, artistic work, language learning, or faculty development in India! Indiastudies.org

📢 Job Opportunity! 📢 The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago is searching for an "Instructional Professor" of Tamil language: apply.interfolio.com/164197

📢 Award Opportunity! 📢 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 2024. Info: international.ucla.edu/cisa/patel

New work by #AIIS President Sumathi Ramaswamy featured on the Indian Express: *The optics of a dying moment in the life of a nation*. Read more: indianexpress.com/article/resear…

🎉 #AIIS 2025 Book Prizes Awarded to Dana Kornberg and Satya Shikha Chakraborty! The Joseph W. Elder Prize - Dana Kornberg, *The Garbage Economy* The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize - Satya Shikha Chakraborty, *Colonial Caregivers* indiastudies.org/aiis-2025-book…

📢 #AIIS Dissertation to Book Workshop Applications are now open! Part of the Annual Conference on South Asia at UW Madison, this workshop helps recent PhDs transform their dissertations into books. Workshop: October 21-22, 2025 Deadline: July 15, 2025 indiastudies.org/book-prize/dis…

🎉 Sunila S. Kale, a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has been elected as the next president of #AIIS! Her four-year term will begin on July 1, 2026. indiastudies.org/sunila-kale-el…

Fellow Spotlight! Aarti S. Madan on the Spaces, Places, and Voices between India and Argentina: Professor Madan is currently an AIIS Senior Fellow working on her project “Familiarity: India in the Argentine Cultural Imaginary.” indiastudies.org/fellow-profile…

📢 AIIS Website Redesign 🎉 New site organization makes it easier to find information about AIIS programs, initiatives, and research centers. Check out our application pages and our new program collaboration initiative! indiastudies.org