[Nwsanet] Calendar 7.30.2007

[Keith Snodgrass]

1) Ritual Healing and Family Unity in the Central Himalayas 

2) IAWW India Day 
3) Gurukul's Hindi Classes for Adults - Registration announcement 

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July 31 

10:30  AM

The Simpson Center for Humanities Conference Room

Communications 202

 

Ritual Healing and Family Unity in the Central Himalayas 

 

Professor William Sax, Department of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg, Germany

 

Prof. William Sax earned two BAs at the University of Washington (in South Asian Studies and Asian Languages and Literature), before moving on to the University of Chicago where he received the PhD in Anthropology in 1987.  He spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, then moved on to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he taught for eleven years and raised his family.  Since 2000, Prof. Sax has been head of the Department of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, and is presently Director of the Institute.  His work has concentrated on popular culture and religion in the central Himalayas of North India, and his books include Mountain Goddess: gender and politics in a central Himalayan pilgrimage (New York: OUP, 1991), The Gods at Play: Lila in South Asia (New York: OUP, 1995), and Dancing the Self: personhood and performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal (New York: OUP, 2002).  In his lecture, Prof. Sax will discuss one of the chapters of his forthcoming book God of Justice: ritual healing in the Central Himalayas.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2) Aug 18IAWW India Day 

IAWW solicits the participation of all India based organizations in Washington State to showcase their presentations and invites participants/choreographers who can perform/choreograph either a dance or music program in solo or in group (suitable to the event and preferably representing the rich cultural diversity of India) at the India Day function celebrating the 60th anniversary of India's Independence on Saturday, Aug. 18th.

Venue: HUB auditorium at the U.W., Seattle 
Time: 4.00 p.m.-8.00 p.m.
(The hall will open at 12 noon for rehearsal)
Entry: Free
Your donations will be fully tax deductable & highly appreciated

Please contact Ponni Rajagopal, the focal of the event at ponjan at u.washington.edu with the details of your presentations/numbers and names of participants/time by Sunday July 22nd, 2007.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3)  Gurukul's Hindi Classes for Adults - Registration announcement  Gurukul (http://www.gurukul-wa.org), a registered non-profit organization involved in teaching Hindi and Indian culture to kids and adults will start a fresh round of classes Sunday, Sept 9, 2007. Registration is now in progress for the class for adults. The Hindi class for adults will start from the absolute beginning - assuming no prior knowledge or experience with Hindi. The classes start the Sunday after labor day (September) and go through until the weekend before memorial day (May). Classes are held (practically) every Sunday from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland. The fee is approximately $250 for the entire year (roughly 60 hours of instruction). If you'd like to register for the class, please send an email toenroll at gurukul-wa.org with the following information: Name:Address:Home phone number:Mobile:Email: Please mention in your email that you are interested in enrolling for the adult class. The Hindi class for adults assumes no prior knowledge of the language. We start at the very beginning, move relatively quickly through the sounds of the hindi alphabet and script, and start working with grammar in present tense.  We follow Rupert Snell's "Teach Yourself Hindi" as the text book for the language class. Please let me know if you have any additional questions about the syllabus, teaching methods, fees, registration or any other aspect of theHindi class offered for adults by Gurukul. For more information on Gurukul, please visit http://www.gurukul-wa.org.For more information about the Hindi class, please contact Agastya Kohliat agastyak at gmail.com (agastyak AT gmail DOT com). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
w: http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/
p:206.543.4800
f: 206.685.0668
e: snodgras at u.washington.edu
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