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ALUMNI
NEWS
David Knipe (Professor Emeritus) Department of Languages
and Cultures of Asia is in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, doing
final interviews in East and West Godavari Districts with ten
families of long-time Vaidika Brahman lineage that he has been
involved with for the past twenty-five years. All but three
of the ahitagnis have gone and the remaining three are quite
elderly. None of the current generation aspire to set the sacrificial
fires and become an agnihotrin, although a few suggest that
they may attempt this later in life. The changing attitudes
of the younger generation suggest that this the close of a long
and vivid era. He is working on a book called “Godavari
Voices: The Last Sacrificers of the Godavari Delta,” in
which he is attempting to introduce the beauty and complexity
of the Vedic tradition through personal histories of quite remarkable
people he has known since 1980.
Qassid Mallah
(Languages and Cultures of Asia, PhD) is a lecturer at Shah
Abdul Latif University, Khairpur Mirs, Pakistan. During the
past year he has been teaching archaeology and carrying out
research in the Thar desert to study the long term history of
the region with a special focus on the development of trade
and specialized craft technologies. He will be presenting a
paper on Specialized Craft Production and Trade between
Periphery and Core Area sites from Hakra to Harappan Period:
A View from the Thar Desert at the European Association
of South Asian Archaeology to be held in London, July 4-8, 2005.
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SOUTH
ASIA SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE - SASLI
If you cannot make it to South Asia for summer language
study, the next best thing is to study language in Madison through
SASLI. The main difference is
that it is not as hot and humid in Madison but the language
training opportunity is excellent and the atmosphere at Madison
is fun and challenging.
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REPORT
ON THE 34th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIA
The 33rd Annual Conference on South Asia was held October 15 – 17, 2004, hosting nearly 500 participants from the continental US and Hawaii, Europe, and South Asia. Presenters covered a broad range of topics and disciplines ranging from archaeology, architecture, film studies, and history, to Buddhist and religious studies, international economics, literature, and politics. A total of 65 panels and 7 roundtables were selected for presentation. Read
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OTHER
NEWS
Global Media and Democracy in Asia Research Circle
Hemant Shah is
one of the facilitators of the “Global Media and Democracy
in Asia” (GMDA) research circle.
3rd Annual International Children and Young Adult Literature
Celebration
An all-day interactive workshop was held November 19, 2004 for
K-12 educators, librarians, students, and children's literature
enthusiasts, with an aim to internationalize statewide reading
curriculum.
A Passage to India: Exploring
the Arts and Histories of the Sub Continent
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for South Asia, with support from the Fulbright-Hays
Group Projects Abroad Program, will bring one curriculum specialist
and thirteen K-12 teachers from the State of Wisconsin on a
Curriculum Development Team for five-weeks to north and south
India.
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