CAORC Announces Awards for the 2025 Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in India
The Council for American Overseas Research Centers has announced the 2024 awards for faculty to participate in an Overseas Faculty...
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Jan 19
Preserving the Music of India
In this Field Notes blog post, Elizabeth Ursic describes her experiences on the Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in India in 2023.
Oct 12, 2022
Terrains of Research in Afghanistan
Please join us by zoom on October 19 at 4pm for CAORC’s inaugural Alumni Ambassador Lecture, “Terrains of Research in Afghanistan."
Aug 2, 2022
CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India Accepting Applications
The faculty development seminar to India is now accepting applications with a deadline of September 7, 2022.
Jul 19, 2022
Informal Economies in India
In this essay, Brian Turnbull describes what 'informal economies' are and discusses their importance in India.
Feb 18, 2021
Planning for Informal Settlements in India
Seminar participants Jessica Barnes and Amar Sawhney discuss the many challenges facing India’s informal settlements.
Feb 18, 2021
Addressing Eco-Disparity in India
Seminar participants Amar Sawhney and Jessica Barnes discuss why green spaces are so critical to urban planning in Delhi and India’s cities.
Feb 1, 2021
CAORC Faculty Development Seminars
CAORC is accepting applications for faculty development seminars with a deadline of August 30, 2021.
Jul 20, 2020
Bringing in the New Year in India: How Cars and Chaos Gave Me Hope
Seminar participant Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez discusses India’s challenges and how innovative solutions offer hope in uncertain times.
Jul 1, 2020
New Digital Scholarship Grant Program from AIIS
The American Institute of Indian Studies is pleased to announce the launch of its new Digital India Learning initiative.
Jun 8, 2020
Twenty Years of Change in India: A Native Daughter’s Reflections
Shabana Meyering, participant in the faculty seminar to India, offers her personal reflections on two decades of change in the country.
Apr 10, 2020
Explaining Northern India's Oppressive Smog
Mukila Maitha, participant in the faculty seminar to India, examines Delhi’s suffocating smog and what is being done to lessen its impact.
Jul 5, 2019
Reflections on the Historical Relationship between People and Spaces
The Glass House, a central landmark of the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, was built in 1889. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL...
Jun 18, 2019
AIIS Organizes All India Museum Summit
All India Museum Summit July 22 – 24, 2019, India International Centre, New Delhi The All India Museum Summit 2019, with financial...
May 3, 2019
Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary
Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019...
Apr 9, 2019
Videos: Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower AAS Panel
CAORC sponsored the panel discussion, Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational...
Feb 19, 2019
Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities
The India Faculty Development Seminar group with Dr. Balasubramaniam “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our...
Jan 29, 2019
Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: CAORC Sponsors AAS Conference Panel Session
Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational Engagement An Association for Asian...
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