[Soasiastudents] Bulletin 10.12.10

[Keith Snodgrass]

South Asia Center Bulletin
*published by the South Asia National Resource Center, Henry M. Jackson
School of International Studies, University of Washington*

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*_____________________________________________________* All Events October
2010
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*On the Difficulty of Doing Good: Ethics from the Mahabharata*

*Saturday October 16, 2010*
*9:30 - 11:00 AM*
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle

*Gurcharan Das*

*Jackson** School of International Studies, Gardner Center for Asian Art And
Ideas, Elliott Bay Books*

*seattleartmuseum.org/gardnercenter*

Writer and former business executive Gurcharan Das discusses his new book,
On the Difficulty of Doing Good: Ethics from the Mahabharata.  Gurcharan Das
was the inaugural India Distinguished Visitor to the University of
Washington in 2005, during which time he conducted much of the original
research for this book.


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*Moonset on Sunrise Mountain: Narrative, Politics, and the Accession of
Kulottunga Cola I*

*Tuesday October 19, 2010*
*3:30 PM*
Thomson Hall 317, UW Campus

*Whitney Cox, Lecturer in Sanskrit, Department of the Languages and Cultures
of South Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London*

*South** Asia Center*

*South** Asia Center**, 206-543-4800*

Beginning in 1070 CE, a minor prince from a distaff line of the imperial
Cola kings embarked on a momentous and ultimately successful political
gambit to remake himself into the undisputed master of the kingdom, the
self-styled ‘emperor of the triple world’. The imperial accession of this
prince, who would rule under the regnal name Kulottuṅga, ‘Lofty in his
Family’, has long been reckoned one of the signal events in the history of
medieval South India; Kulottuṅga’s own contemporaries understood his rise to
power to mark a transformative break in the Coḻa polity. I have two main
goals in my current research: to provide an empirically more adequate
account of the crucial years 1070 to 1075, the details of which have been
heretofore poorly understood, and to theorize the ‘eventful’ status of
Kulottuṅga’s rise to power. If, to adopt the language of one influential
formulation, it is through novel acts of reference or reimaginings of
existing cultural schemata that events are distinguished from the unmarked
flux of history, what exactly were the cultural framings in which the rise
of Kulottuṅga was embedded, and how and by whom were they manipulated? The
answers to these questions encompasses both documentary and eulogistic
inscriptions, courtly kāvya, and works of Tantric ritual, and taken together
present an understanding of historical agency and narrativity whose
significance extends beyond medieval South India.


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*The Sacred Site of the Self in Hinduism: Temple, Society, and the Yoga Body
*

*Saturday October 23, 2010*
*9:30 - 11:00 AM*
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle

*Christian Novetzke, Associate Professor of International Studies,
University of Washington*

*Jackson** School of International Studies, Gardner Center for Asian Art And
Ideas*

*seattleartmuseum.org/gardnercenter*

Christian Novetzke, Assistant Professor of International Studies, UW, speaks
on how the human body is conceived as a sacred site in yoga.


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*At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka*

*Thursday October 28, 2010*
*7:00-8:30 PM*
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle

*Madhur Jaffrey*

*Jackson** School of International Studies, Gardner Center for Asian Art And
Ideas*

*seattleartmuseum.org/gardnercenter*

Noted cookbook writer and actress *Madhur Jaffrey* talks about her new
book, *At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka*.

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*Student Funding Opportunities*

The following fellowship offers funding to study Hindi, Urdu, Bangla and
Panjabi, among other languages.



The State Department is accepting applications for its summer 2011
Critical Language
Scholarship
program for overseas intensive institutes in 13 critical need foreign
languages. The programs
provide fully-funded (including travel from the U.S., room and board)
group-based intensive
language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for 7-10
weeks.  U.S. citizens
who are current undergraduate and graduate students in any field are
eligible. The deadline is
November 15, 2010.

More information is available at: clscholarship.org.



-- 
Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center, Box 353650
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
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p:206.543.4800
f: 206.685.0668
e: snodgras at uw.edu
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