Want to read up before the upcoming talk on Media and Elections in India by Journalist, Kalpana Sharma and Political Scientist, Pradeep Chiibber? Click on the link below to see a list of their recent newspaper articles on current politics and elections in India.
The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Foundation has made the single largest gift in the Center’s history, establishing three scholarships and the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies.
Read more about the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Foundation gift.
We have some really wonderful news. We have just received a $3.1 million grant from the State Department to re-establish the former Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP). Now we can once again start funding student travel for Urdu learning through immersion programs based in Pakistan.
Learn more on the application process and Berkeley's Urdu Initiative.
CSAS Chair, Lawrence Cohen comments on the two United States Supreme Court decisions of June 26, 2013 that ruled the Voting Rights Act out and rendered the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional.
CSAS is proud to announce the 2013 Sri Lankan Studies' awardees: Neal Malik wins the Outstanding Paper Prize. The Dissertation Research Award goes to Prashanth Kuganathan and Devaka Gunawardena. Read more about the awards.
The 2013 Tata Summer Interns are Marissa A Harrison, Tanay Kothari, Souma Kundu, Sybil Lewis, Peter C Myers, Evan J Shum, Reshma E Varghese, Zhen Zhao.
For her outstanding commitment to helping Berkeley graduate students succeed academically and professionally and creatively pursue new ideas, former CSAS chair, Raka Ray is honored with the 2013 Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award.
Awards ceremony on Thu, April 18, 4 – 6 pm, in Anna Head Alumnae Hall, 2537 Haste Street.
See renowned French playwright, screenwriter, author, actor & raconteur par excellence, Jean-Claude Carrière giving a one-man rendition of the story of Mahabharata, in the style of the old wandering minstrels of India.
Saturday, March 16 @ 5pm at the International House, Berkeley.
CSAS welcomes Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and South & Southeast Asian Studies, and member of the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley and UCSF, as its new Chair. Learn more about Lawrence Cohen. (Standing on right in picture above with outgoing Chair, Raka Ray.)
CAL students Lillygol Sedaghat and Garance Denizot talk to the Hindustan Times about their Tata ISES internship experience in India this summer.
Dr. Amita Baviskar, an environmental sociologist who has written powerfully both on natural resources and urban sociology, will be in residence in Berkeley in April as the 2012 Indo-American Community Lecturer. On April 10 at 5 pm, she will give a talk titled, "Good to Eat, Good to Think: Mapping Social and Ecological Change through Food."
CSAS organized an extremely successful fundraiser for our Urdu Studies Initiative with a magical evening featuring readings by author William Dalrymple from his book The Last Mughal, accompanied by the North Indian Hindustani vocals of Vidya Shah celebrating the sweet and poignant poetry and ghazals of the Mughal court.
The institution of paid domestic labour produces cleanliness, meals and childcare, but it also produces and reproduces an unequal home and society. Read CSAS Chair, Raka Ray's Op-ed in The Hindu on the culture of servitude and its impact on society in India.
In the past two decades, arsenic-poisoning has unfolded on a vast scale in Bangladesh and West Bengal populations. WHO has correctly called this poisoning of about 70 million people as the largest mass poisoning in the history of mankind and more than 20% of adult deaths in Bangladesh are attributable to consequences of arsenic poisoning. The poisoning arises from very high concentrations of naturally occurring arsenic in the ground water. Prof. Gadgil on technology invented in his laboratory for making this arsenic laden ground water safe for human consumption.Read the original article.
CSAS faculty, Vasudha Dalmia gives generously to endow a scholarship for graduate Hindi Studies. Read more about the scholarship.
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