Asian Pacific Heritage Month Events Starter Calendar 2004 In Chang s collection, Halflit Houses, the speaker the works with currents of indian spirituality and south Asia, Maitri, Narika, south asian Sisters, Trikone http://www.iminorities.com/Villages/Asian/announce_events_deadlines/apa_month_20
Extractions: Asian-American Village News Relatives of Montagnard Exile Forced to Confess 'Wrongdoings' in Vietnam Report: Activists Taken Away Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary Tanonaka Challenges Abercrombie for 1st District Seat Lacking Summertime Workers, Resort Businesses Import from Abroad Variety Is Spice of Life but May Be Detriment of Diets Secret Asian Man
Nayikas Dance Theatre Company - Samita The Infinite Within treated to an evening of Odissi, an indian dance tradition fill in meanings the way a south asian audience might.). some of the dancers dancing with lit incense http://www.exploredance.com/nayikas012804.html
Extractions: January 28, 2004 The almost full house at the Baruch Performing Arts Center was treated to an evening of Odissi, an Indian dance tradition dating from the 2nd Century BC. The dances presented included classical works and a modern dance with strong Odissi influence. While some classical ballet is one part pure dance and one part mime, Odissi fuses pure dance and mime into a single symbolic language. Like any language, those who grew up watching it and hearing the stories it portrays will get more nuance from the performance than those who have not, but as with any rich arts tradition performed well, Nayikas' performance is likely to speak to you on some level even if you are not of South Asian descent. Photo courtesy of Joseph Khaksouri MangalaCharan - Tandava An Odissi performances normally opens with a Mangalacharan, a classical performance which invokes the blessings of the deity. This traditional dance began with stark lighting and narration in English. The light brightened and the narration faded away, leaving just dance. The dancers danced like water flowing over a rock while also being the rock.
Wauu.DE: Arts: Literature: World Literature: Indian http//userpages.umbc.edu/~achatt1/lit.html. Books for is an online journal of south asian literature and Of south Asia And The indian Diaspora Discussions of http://www.wauu.de/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Indian/
16th European Conference On Modern South Asian Studies research findings on modern south asian languages, in is central for all the indian Grammarians schools. The verb is considered intransitive (akarmaka, lit. http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/sas/conf16/panel26.htm
Extractions: The main concern of our panel is to present and discuss research findings on modern South Asian languages, in particular of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. But papers on Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic languages located in South Asia will also be welcome. The contributions can refer to any level of the language system, i.e., to phonetics/ phonology, morphology, syntax, text structure, pragmatics, and to the lexical level including lexicography. Special emphasis should be laid on the synchronic or diachronic analysis of modern SA languages. Furthermore, papers dealing with comparative or contrastive studies or with problems of translation (with reference to SA languages but also as regards their relationship to European languages), or with the preparation of various teaching materials will also be welcome.
Center For South Asian Studies -- Spring 2002 Programming Scholar in indian Painting Collecting indian Miniature Painting of articles on Tibetan music for asian Music. and presentday experience, and lit by multiple http://www.virginia.edu/soasia/symsem/Spring_02.html
Extractions: Jan 18 Caitrin Lynch , Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University: The Politics of White Women's Underwear in Sri Lanka's Open Economy. Minor 225 @ 3:00 p.m. Jan 25 Anne Blackburn , Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina: "Putting Another Face on 'Buddhist Modernism': Hikkaduve Sumangala in 19th-century Sri Lanka." Minor 225 @ 3:00 p.m. Feb 8 Lisa Owen , Ph.D. candidate in Art History, University of Texas at Austin: In Perpetual Homage: Images of Devotees in Ellora's Jain Excavations. Campbell 160 @ 3:00 p.m. Feb 15 Lowell Lybarger , Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto: Warming Up, Showing Off and Tooling Around: Ritual Performance Space of Pakistani Panjabi Tabla Players. Cabell 345 @ 3:30 pm. Co-sponsored by the McIntire Department of Music. Feb 22 Valerie Ritter , Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia: "Redressing the Nayika: Female Figures in Some Poems by Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' (1899?-1961)". Cabell 311 @ 3:00 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ANTH 401A, Soc Inequality Rel other, Khare, 1530 MUSI 410/710, indian Music Theory and Performance, Sarrazin, SATR 301, Mod S asian lit lit Nation, Farooqi, 1100 http://www.virginia.edu/soasia/courses/CourseList-Fall02.htm
Extractions: LANGUAGE COURSES Hindi COD HIND 101 Elementary Hindi/Urdu Chaussee 1200-1250 MWF Cab 119 HIND 101 Elem. Hindi/Urdu Drill Chaussee 1400-1450 TR Cab 235 HIND 101 Elem. Hindi/Urdu Drill Chaussee 1500-1515 TR Cab 130 HIND 201 Intermediate Hindi Dwivedi 1000-1050 MWF Cab 224 HIND 201 Intermediate Hindi Drill Dwivedi 1700-1840 T Cab 234 HIND 301/501 Advanced Hindi Readings Farooqi 1230-1345 TR Cab 432 HIND 493 Independant Study in Hindi TBA TBA HIND 801 Independant Study in Hindi TBA TBA Persian COD PERS 101 Elementary Persian Hajibashi 1300-1350 MWF Cab 122 PERS 101 Elementary Persian Drill Hajibashi 1830-1945 T Cab 316 PERS 201 Intermediate Persian Hajibashi 1100-1150 MWF Cab 247 PERS 201 Intermediate Persian Drill Hajibashi 1700-1815 T Cab 316 PERS 301 Contemporary Iranian Culture Kar 1030-1300 F Cab 126 PERS 323 Intro to Classical Persian Literature Hajibashi 1500-1615 TR Cab B026 PERS 401 Obstacles to Democracy in Iran Kar 1400-1700 F Cab 126 PERS 493 Independant Study in Persian TBA TBA PERS 801 Independent Study in Persian TBA TBA Tibetan COD RELB 101 Woelfel 1000-1050 MTWRF TBA TBTN 101 Woelfel 1000-1015 MTWRF TBA RELB 533 Colloquial Tibetan III TBA 1000-1050 MW Wil 141B RELB 535 Literary Tibetan III TBA 1230-1345 MW Wil 141B RELB 542 Colloquial Tibetan V Wang 0900-0950 MW TBA RELB 547 Literary Tibetan V Germano 1830-2100 M
Rediff.com Interview Dr Simon Singh is seated in a garishly lit pizza parlor and does not make much of his south asian identity try to engender us with an indian identity, explains http://www.simonsingh.net/Apoorvas_Article.html
Extractions: Rediff.com interview Back to Articles About Me Scientist In Search Of Stimulation Apoorva Mandavilli in New York 4 October, 1999 rediff.com A few hours after his lecture to the South Asian Journalists Association, Dr Simon Singh is seated in a garishly lit pizza parlor in midtown Manhattan. As the SAJA members around him raucously debate politics, he is shy and reticent, only occasionally offering a comment. Then the conversation turns to television and suddenly, Singh, physicist-turned-documentary-filmmaker-turned-bestselling author breaks into a wide, boyish grin and says, "I love TV. American TV is wonderful, fantastic." On first glance, Singh looks much like the stereotypical scientist he used to be, tall with a slight stoop, checked shirt under an oversized Mr Rogers-like cardigan, round glasses perched on an unremarkable face. But as he begins to talk animatedly, I notice that his hair is greased into pointy spikes, he is witty and articulate, and his shyness masks an easy, natural charm. Soon, he has us all laughing and a few young women in our group start plotting his marriage.
Introduction To Asian Literature (Coppola, 1989) lit 100 Fall 1989 T TH 10001147 AM the four great literary traditions of Asia the indian, the Chinese JOURNAL OF south asian litERATURE (hereafter JSAL), Vol http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/external/asdp/lit/asian/lit100.html
Extractions: Description : This course is an introduction to the four great literary traditions of Asia: the Indian, the Chinese, the Japanese and the Middle Eastern. It is, first and foremost, a course in literature not one in area studies. Students will be introduced to the tools of literary analysis common to both the western and eastern literary traditions, and then will read, discuss, and analyze literature according to genre: epic, scripture, drama, lyric poetry and fiction (short story and novel). Such analysis will elucidate the universality of the problems of the human condition, which are viewed in these various texts by Asia's foremost literary figures. Discussion within the genre rubric will be roughly chronological, moving from the ancient period to the modern. When required, students will also receive an appropriate amount of cultural and historical context in which to place the works. As a part of the Oakland University General Education Program, the course will develop analytical skills, especially in the comparison-contrast mode, for the instructor will, when germane, discuss comparisons, analogues, and contrasts with western literature and attitudes. Class Format : The basic format of the course will be one of lecture and discussion. Lectures at the start of each section of the course (viz., The Epic Tradition, The Scriptural Tradition, The Dramatic Tradition, The Lyric Tradition, and the Fictive Tradition) will broadly define the terms required for understanding the various genres. Discussion will accompany each work read. The class will make extensive use of audio-visual materials, including slides, phonograph recordings, video tapes, and films, a number of which are already owned by Oakland University. In addition, several guest lecturers will make specialized presentations.
Southasia information about the general linguistic and south asian context of the will be written on a literary subject The development of the new indian languages and http://www.afro.uu.se/Southasiaplan.html
Extractions: Cultural pluralism, political institutions and socio-economic processes A course given in co-operation between departments of the Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University Course description Instruction is in English South Asia consists of seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldive Islands, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but can still be said to constitute a geographical unit. The region has a homogeneous civilisation with a shared historical background and culture. Todays political boundaries cut across ethnic and social groupings. People move between countries in a way that further complicates the political and religious demography. Alongside smaller religions such as Buddhism and Jainism, there are two major religions in the area, Hinduism and Islam, which have often been antagonistic towards each other. Despite great conflicts within and between states, there is a trend towards bilateral as well as regional collaboration. The government structures are mainly a product of the regions history, not least reflecting the transition from colonial to postcolonial conditions. Aim of the course The aim of the course is to give students such an advanced knowledge of South Asia that they will be able to achieve an overall understanding of the regions multifaceted, multicultural society with its changing tendencies, great potential for development and well-documented, deeply rooted culture. An additional aim is to provide students with such proficiency in at least one of the regions languages that they will be able to move about without difficulty within various realms of activities in the region and communicate with people on different levels of ability.
Extractions: The Guild of Service, a group working to help widows in India, has created a new organization dedicated to bringing peace to Southern Asia. War is one of the major causes of widowhood. The continuing escalation of hostilities now including nuclear capability between India and Pakistan, has moved women in India and Pakistan to work together and create a new movement for peace in this area of the world. Although women do not have official political power in India and Pakistan, these women are drawing on their own resources to create the seeds of peace in their own countries. By forming the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia (WIPSA) they have begun a fast growing movement. As part of their initiative they are having meetings between Pakistani and Indian women, and putting programs of exchange visits between students. Grief and Renewal is proud to post the following description of WIPSA's origins, actions, and goals as it was sent to us from India. Ed. Grief and Renewal.com
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Asiaxpress.com Denver's Premium Online Guide To Asian Resources And Events asian Americans in their programs and other endeavors with a buffet dinner of traditional asian indian fare catered a pair of diyas (lamps) were lit by General http://www.asiaxpress.com/Articles/john_chin/cele_india_2000/cele_india_2000.htm
Extractions: As the crowd entered the Donald A. Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for Celebrate India 2000, the diversity of Asian Americans attending was immediately noticeable and impressive. The largely Asian American crowd was made up of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Laotian, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese and others in addition to South Asians. Like many recent Asian activities and events in the past several years, Asian Americans are supporting other Asian Americans in their programs and other endeavors. The success of the Asian Film Festival in Aurora is another recent example. This event was the culmination of a vision held by a number of community leaders. The Kindred Spirits Council, a volunteer organization dedicated to infusing the diversity of cultural perspectives into DCPA programming, endorsed Celebrate India 2000. Patty Coutts, an Asian representative on Kindred Spirits Council, believed that it was time for Asian Americans to be recognized as an important cultural aspect of the Denver metroplex and of Colorado. She encouraged Purnima Voria, Past President of the India Association, to organize an event. The first thing Voria did was to establish a Pan-Asian Celebrate India 2000 Committee. Lester Ward, President of DCPA, worked closely with this group and committed DCPA resources to Celebrate India 2000.
Ling Essay: Teaching The American Literatures Bering Strait, and as far south as the indian Ocean; it American to fit my definition of an asian American text. and to grant the validity of other perspectives http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/essays/asian_am.html
Extractions: I find it useful to begin my Introduction to Asian American literature classes with a discussion of terminology. First, I deconstruct the term oriental, explaining that as a signifier of someone or something of Asian origin it is no longer viable since it is burdened with all the negative connotations of inferiority, irrationality, and exoticism that Edward Said clearly delineated in his groundbreaking cultural history Orientalism. (NY: 1978) By contrast, the term Asian is a neutral geographical designation and therefore more acceptable. Next, I explore the rather fluid boundaries of the terms Asian, American, and literature. Asia, as the world's largest continent, stretches from what used to be the U.S.S.R, west of the Ural Mountains, as far east as the Bering Strait, and as far south as the Indian Ocean; it is separated from Africa by the Suez Canal, includes all of the Middle East as well as the islands of the South Pacific. However, the boundaries of Asia as employed by scholars of Asian American literature have been much more limited, focused primarily on writers of so-called East Asian origins. [East Asia is only east in relation to Europe, of course; from an American perspective, China, Japan, and Korea are the Near West.] Kai-yu Hsu and Helen Palubinskas, editors of the first anthology in the field
Busan Asian Games near the Busan area, who met an indian princess and 7. There it will join the other torch, lit at Mt it will join with flames from asian countries participating http://www.korea.net/learnaboutkorea/sportsandtourism/busan_overview.html
The Indian Empires Early south asian civilization, specifically the Indus Valley civilization lit the Deccan, the Pallavas and the a cultural pattern on the indian subcontinent? http://www.globaled.org/nyworld/materials/india/contacts.html
Extractions: Materials Performance Objectives Teacher Background Early South Asian civilization, specifically the Indus Valley civilization, is contemporary with the civilization of ancient Egypt, the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia and early Chinese civilization located in the Yellow River Valley. All of these regions shared the geographic characteristic as major river valleys. The abundance of water allowed for irrigation even in terms of scarce rainfall. The two most important sites in the Indus Valley were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, an area which today is in northwestern India and Pakistan. The two capitals Of the Indus spread over 1000 miles along the floor of the valley.
The Asian Age - News Worldwide indian Muslims had till now shown remarkable resilience in to cast a very long shadow over other regions, such the fire that it has possibly lit in attempting http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=6&cat2=44&newsid=100436&RF=Defaul
Extractions: All special features are at www.aaronshep.com/extras. Nearly all the worlds greatest religious teachers have been peacemakers, and the Buddha was certainly one of these. Among the ethical precepts of his Eightfold Path was Right Action, which included avoiding all killing. A legend is told of two kingdoms on the brink of battle. Each claimed the right to irrigate lands from a river flowing between. The Buddha asked the two kings, What is the water worth? Very little, was the reply. And what is a life worth? It is priceless. Then why would you trade something priceless for something of little worth? According to tradition, the following tale was told by the Buddha himself to monks whose quarrel had reached the point of violence.
AMES_Area Concentrations/South Asia Track least one of the following English 58, 59, or Comp lit The Modern indian Novel. In such instances, the term paper must have a south asian regional content http://www.dartmouth.edu/~asia/sasia_t.html
Extractions: Home About the program Academics Area concentrations ... South/Southeast Asia Sout Asia track Global Studies Study abroad Updates Faculty ... FAQ South Asia Track 1. Ten courses 2. Core requirements: Students who do South Asia related programs away from the campus may substitute these courses upon approval from the Chair. We particularly encourage language study away from the campus. Depending upon the student's interest, Arabic may be considered as credit upon approval of the South/Southeast Asia Regional Group Students may include up to two courses that do not focus solely on South Asia but that contain topical areas related to South Asia. In such instances, the term paper must have a South Asian regional content. 3. Independent study 4. One course must be the culminating experience which may be satisfied through:
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