In this episode, we’ll meet the new Executive Director of AIIS, Dr. Emily Rook-Koepsel. As many of you know, the long-time US Director of AIIS, Dr. Elise Auerbach, retired this spring and has left us an incredible legacy of language, research, and outreach programs that have become the gold standard across disciplines for study abroad. Today, we’ll hear from Dr. Rook-Koepsel about this next era of AIIS, the plans for the future, and what to look forward to this year.

For more information about AIIS programs, visit indiastudies.org.

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Intro and Outro music: “Desh” by Stephen Slawek

In this episode, we explore the bright and fascinating futures of the AIIS Digital India Learning initiative. Launched in 2019 as a new effort from AIIS President Sumathi Ramaswamy, the DIL program has already awarded several rounds of grants to senior scholars and students creating digital projects on India from across the spectrum of disciplines and methodologies. The initiative has funded work on everything from digital resources on urban planning, to bhakti or devotional digital archives, to image archives of 18th century South Indian textiles, and oral epics and clay modeling digital exhibits.

Joining us today to talk about the current state of the DIL initiative and its broad and promising futures, is James Nye, Director of the Digital South Asia Library and an associate of the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago; Gil Ben-Herut, Professor in the Religious Studies Department, University of South Florida; Haimonti Dutta, Associate Professor of Management Science and Systems in the School of Management at the University of Buffalo; Jajwalya Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian for the University of Pennsylvania; and Deepthi Murali, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.

www.indiastudies.org/digital-scholarship/

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Intro and Outro music: “Desh” by Stephen Slawek

In this episode, we look back on the work and impact of McKim Marriott, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, who passed earlier this year on July 3, 2024. Initially, we recorded this conversation as a celebration of work and impact, but after his passing this summer, we wanted to share this as a celebration of work and a remembrance.

Joining us today in conversation on the life and work of McKim Marriott is Nita Kumar, Brown Family Professor Emerita of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College, Ralph W. Nicholas, William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, Gloria Raheja, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, and Ann Gold, Thomas J. Watson Professor Emerita at Syracuse University.

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Intro and Outro music: “Desh” by Stephen Slawek