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CSAMES Welcomes First Faculty Director for South Asian Studies
The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to announce a new role within the center: the Faculty Director for South Asian Studies. Starting on August 16, 2024, the Center’s first Faculty Director for South Asian Studies will be Professor Rini Mehta (Comparative & World...
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Tagore's Legacy in the World: The First Tagore House Conference
The South Asian Studies Initiative at the University of Illinois is proud to co-host the inaugural Tagore House Conference, organized in collaboration with the Tagore House Initiative, a non-profit...
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Antoinette Burton's new volume sheds light on the biocultural empire
Historian Antoinette Burton recently published a thought-provoking new edited collection titled Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, co-edited alongside Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost. This groundbreaking volume challenges traditional histories of empire by questioning human...
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2024-25 Focus of ACES Global Academy is Sri Lanka
The Global Academy, a unique international training program based in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) has kicked off its sixteenth year.
With the goal of increasing the international impact of the participants’ professional work, the selected faculty and...
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Susan Koshy Receives OVCRI Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Susan Koshy for her recent receipt of a faculty fellowship with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.
From OVCRI: "Faculty Fellows inform OVCRI thinking and policy-making while simultaneously learning about campus-level research administration and...