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Following the award of a US Department of Education National Resource Center Grant, CAS has expanded the range of its outreach programming to include South, Southeast, and West Asia. Activities currently under development include outreach workshops, residential summer institutes, and a teaching resource library and website for K-12 teachers.

*** SSEWA RESOURCE CENTER ONLINE ***

(We are still in the process of building the online resource center. If you have any questions, please email Kunga @ Kunga.Lama@colorado.edu)

Upcoming Events:

Comparing the Politics of Representation
in "Slumdog Millionaire" With "Q&A"

The 2009 Academy award-winning film and the Indian book

Professors Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayasankar
Center for Media and Communication
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai, India
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
University Club
Campus Tours room on the main floor
872 Broadway ( South of Euclid cross street)
Map here

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Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad: Exploring Religious Pluralism in India

Twelve Colorado secondary school teachers took part in a month-long Fulbright-Hays seminar program in India this summer exploring religious pluralism and spiritual traditions including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. The seminar program was designed to enrich teacher participants’ knowledge of India through first-hand cultural immersion experience as well as guest speakers and a lecture series. It was led by South, Southeast and West Asia Outreach Program (SSEWA) coordinator, Kunga Lama and project scholar Professor Loriliai Biernacki of the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Religious Studies department. The study tour was generously funded by the US Department of Education.

The teacher participants visited historic pilgrimage sites and learned from scholars about historical and contemporary issues in Delhi, Agra, Mathura, Jaipur, Ajmer, Pushkar, Ranakpur, Varanasi, Dharamsala and Amritsar, thereby improving their understanding of religious pluralism in India, in the world and in the United States. The group visited the Taj Mahal in Agra (see Fig.1) and taught at the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala among many other activities. Teachers are now developing lesson plans and curriculum for their classrooms and doing outreach work to share their first-hand knowledge and understanding of India with their colleagues and communities.

Some of the highlights from the study tour:

1. Old Delhi site visit with Dr. Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, University of Iowa and AIIS Language Chair and President elect of AIIS

2. Walking tour with Dr. Naveena Jafa of Foundation for Arts India learning about the history of Islam in Delhi through a visit to archeological sites near Qutb Minar in Delhi

3. Visits to an all girls school in Jaipur and a middle and high school in Dharamsala

4. Sitting in at the Dalai Lama’s teaching in Dharamsala

5. A visit to Brahma temple in Pushkar, the only place where the Hindu god Brahma is worshipped

6. Site visit to darga of Khwaja Muinud-din Chisti, one of the most venerated Sufi shrines in India

7. Visit to Chaumukha temple in Ranakpur, a major destination for Jains throughout India

8. Lessons on Buddhism with Venerable Geshe Dorjee Damdul, the Dalai Lama’s translator

9. Boat up the Ganges river in Varanasi observing holy sites and the dusk ceremony of Aarati.

10. A visit to Golden Temple in Amritsar, a major destination for Sikhs  

 

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