The Institute for South Asia Studies has been offered an extraordinary opportunity to give four $4000 grants to UC Berkeley-based faculty and lecturers.

The following conditions apply:

  1. Grant monies must be used to either bring individual guest speakers to UC Berkeley or host a faculty workshop or mini-conference on campus;
  2. Grant monies must be used in either Fall 2018 or Spring 2019;
  3. Invitees must directly work on South Asia;
  4. Grant recipients must inform the Institute of any planned activities prior to their occurrence;
  5. The Institute must be listed as a co-sponsor of any planned activities.

To apply: Please send a two-page description of how you will spend the grant, the value that this opportunity will bring to your work and/or intellectual life on campus, and a list of invitees. Please also include a budget.

Deadline: April 1, 2018

Please send all materials to: Puneeta Kala pkala@berkeley.edu