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NEH Institute, Past and Present in the Study of India's History and Culture
| Location: | India |
| Summer Program Date: | 2008-07-07 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2007-12-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
159811 |
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The Community College Humanities Association, Northern Virginia Community College, and the South Asian Studies Center of the University of Virginia invite applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored, month-long summer 2008 institute “Bharata Darshan, Past and Present in the Study of India’s History and Culture." The institute will convene from July 7-18 in Shimla and from July 19-August 1 in New Delhi (including a two-day session in Agra). Twenty-four community college and university professors will be competitively selected. The institute is designed to provide for instructors of undergraduate courses whose subject matter concerns India in whole or in part a first-hand acquaintance with India’s cultural and historical resources, as well as the opportunity to learn from institute scholars Swapan Chakravorty, Ashgar Ali Engineer, Sunil Kumar, Meena Nayak, Janaki Nair, Shiva Prakash, Shereen Ratnagar, Indrani Sanyal, Kumar Shahani, and Romila Thapar. Institute co-directors are Beverly Blois (Dean, Humanities, NVCC) and Dan Ehnbom (director, South Asian Studies Center, UVa). For information, please visit the institute website
www.ccha-assoc.org/Bharata08/index.html
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