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Former Pakistani PM Urges Open Talks on Afghanistan

Shaukat Aziz, who served Pakistan for eight years as finance minister and prime minister, argues in a talk at UCLA that global and regional powers will need to meet with all Afghan factions, the Taliban included, and offer a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan in order to put the country on the right track.
Posted: 10/2/2009

10 Questions for Nile Green

In his 2009 book, "Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire," Professor Green follows the development of a "barracks Islam" that was practiced by Indian soldiers and their faqir holy men in 19th- and early 20th-century Hyderabad, a princely state then under de facto British rule.
Posted: 9/2/2009

In Memoriam: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy: 1927-2009

Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, an ethnomusicologist with an international reputation as a researcher, teacher, administrator, and an emeritus faculty member of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology and the Center for India and South Asia, died peacefully on Saturday, June 20 at his home in Van Nuys, California.
Posted: 6/29/2009

2 at International Institute Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Among the six new fellows on the UCLA faculty are Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a historian who directs the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, and Rogers Brubaker, a sociologist who serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 4/21/2009

The Buddha as Astute Businessman, Economist, Lawyer

Wall Street bankers would have benefited from being in the Buddha's audience. At the 106th Faculty Research Lecture, Gregory Schopen explains.
Posted: 3/19/2009

Lessons in Buddhism from an Iconoclastic Scholar

In his Faculty Research Lecture on March 10, Gregory Schopen hopes to illuminate a little-known aspect of Buddhism: the fact that it was one of the earliest social organizations in India to develop what might be called a corporation.
Posted: 2/26/2009

UCLA Geographers Urge US to Narrow Search for bin Laden

Logic and principles of geography point to Parachinar, Pakistan, as a likely hideout and particularly to three structures there, according to a new study.
Posted: 2/17/2009

10 Questions for Vinay Lal

Going by the title of a witty and insightful book by Vinay Lal, associate professor of history, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and U.S. Surgeon General-designate Sanjay Gupta are among "The Other Indians," distinct in many ways not just from native Americans but also from India's 1 billion people. Lal's book was recently published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press and HarperCollins (India). Here, he discusses the Indian community in the U.S. and geopolitical events in South Asia.
Posted: 1/22/2009

'Creating Places'

At the first "Asia in LA" program, architects, urban designers, and faculty members discuss the relationships between cosmopolitanism in a global city and particular locales.
Posted: 11/26/2008

Tibetan Gift to Library

A Tibetan monk and two Americans dedicated to the Bon tradition of Tibet, an ancient religion that influenced Tibetan Buddhism, deliver a digitized copy of canonical Bon texts to the UCLA Library and Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 6/18/2008

CISA Faculty Fellowship Recipients

CISA faculty projects for the upcoming year.
Posted: 6/17/2008

Dedicated Graduates Spend Summer Improving Global Public Health

Three graduates will spend their summers, and beyond, working to improve the state of public health in far-flung corners of the globe.
Posted: 6/9/2008

Domesticating the Harem

A doctoral student in art history reconsiders 'zenana' (female household) imagery in 19th- and early 20th-century India.

Posted: 6/3/2008

Art and AIDS

AIDS/SIDA symposium mixes one part science and one part art to raise awareness about HIV prevention and the treatment of the disease. View a slideshow from the event.
Posted: 5/20/2008

CISA Announces 2008 Sardar Patel Award Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, recipient of the 2008 Sardar Patel Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.
Posted: 4/14/2008

Remnants Point to an Urban Centre- Excavation Continues, Relics Unearthed at Sishupalgarh

A look at Professor Monica Smith's joint UCLA/Deccan College (Pune) archaeological research project at the ancient site of Sisupalgarh.
Posted: 2/28/2008

Remembering a Journalist

New York Times columnist David Brooks delivered the Sixth Annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Tuesday to a capacity audience gathered at Korn Convocation Hall to remember the prominent Wall Street Journal reporter.
Posted: 2/27/2008

The Rise of Asian Nations

In a Q&A with AsiaMedia's Debory Li, former Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani discusses his latest book and the future of the Asian hemisphere.
Posted: 2/27/2008

How America Can Cope with the Rise of Asia

Asia's most famous diplomat, Kishore Mahbubani, has been going around the world outlining just why the United States needs to pay attention to Asia.
Posted: 2/22/2008

Please Listen, People: Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengali Scroll Paintings

on display at the Fowler Museum, March 16 through July 12, 2008
Posted: 2/12/2008

Music for a Goddess

A new release from CISA ethnomusicologists Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Posted: 2/4/2008

Week Explores South Asian Heritage

South Asian Heritage Week at UCLA. Article from the Daily Bruin.
Posted: 2/4/2008

Off India's Beaten Path

Dayamani Barla reports on the concerns of rural people in India, while enduring sexism and financial hardship.
Posted: 1/25/2008

Anderson Students Go Global

The Anderson School, in partnership with the National University of Singapore, offers an executive MBA program which gives students an opportunity to further their business studies in a global context. Students travel to four cities on two continents for classes.
Posted: 8/20/2007

Obituary: Medha Yodh, 79, Professor and Expert on Classical Indian Dance

Her documentary film "Garba-Ras: A Glimpse Into Gujarati Culture"--a study of the Garba and Ras communal dances of the western Indian state of Gujarat, as practiced by the immigrant Gujarati community of Los Angeles--was highly regarded in academic circles.
Posted: 7/30/2007

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