Teaching India
A History Institute for Teachers
March 11–12, 2006
Sponsored by the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education
A Division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Co-sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program
Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education is pleased to announce its History Institute for Teachers on “Teaching India,” chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter McDougall. Specially designed for secondary school teachers and curriculum supervisors, the weekend-long program will feature a series of lectures by leading scholars.
Speakers and Topics
- Why It’s Important To Know About India
- Ainslie T. Embree, Emeritus, Columbia University
- Ainslie T. Embree is Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University, where he served as director of the undergraduate programs in Asian civilization and Western civilization. He was president of the American Institute of Indian Studies and of the Association for Asian Studies. He taught in India from 1948 to 1958 and has served in the American Embassy in Delhi.
- Audio/Video of the Embree lecture
- Read Why It’s Important To Know About India
- Early Indian History
- Richard H. Davis, Bard College
- Richard Davis teaches in the Religion and Asian Studies programs at Bard College. He has written broadly in the areas of South Asian religions, history, and art. He is currently commencing work on a cultural history of early India.
- Audio/Video of the Davis lecture
- Modern Indian History
- Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia College and State University
- Marc Jason Gilbert is a University System of Georgia Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning and Co-director of the University System of Georgia’s programs in India and Vietnam.
- Audio/Video of the Gilbert lecture
- Domestic Indian Politics
- Philip Oldenburg, The University of Texas at Austin
- Philip Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and an Adjunct Research Associate at the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University. He has taught political science at Columbia University since 1977. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations-Asia Society Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward South Asia.
- Audio/Video of the Oldenburg lecture
- Indian Religions
- Guy Welbon, University of Pennsylvania
- Guy Welbon is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in the religious and cultural history of South and Southeast Asia. He is former director of Penn’s South Asia Center and former chairman of its South Asia Studies department.
- Audio/Video of the Welbon lecture
- The Rise of the Indian Economy
- John Williamson, Institute for International Economics
- John Williamson was Chief Economist for the South Asia Region of the World Bank, 1966-1999. He has taught at MIT, Princeton, University of Warwick, and University of York, and has been an adviser to the International Monetary Fund.
- Audio/Video of the Williamson lecture
- Read The Rise of the Indian Economy, FPRI E-Notes, 4/2006
- India-Pakistan Relations
- Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University
- Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Professor of Political Science. He has published extensively in the areas of ethnic conflict, inter-state war and defense and security policy. He is he editor of a new journal, The India Review, published by Frank Cass and Company.
- Audio/Video of the Ganguly lecture
- Read India-Pakistan Relations, FPRI E-Notes, 4/2006
- Panel Discussion on Teaching About India and South Asia
- Donald Johnson, New York University
Jean Johnson, Asia Society
Yasmeen Mohiuddin, University of the South
William Harman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Moderated by Lucien Ellington, Senior Fellow, Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, and Asia Program Director, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Audio/Video of the panel
Classroom Lessons
- ABCs of India (29K Microsoft Word document)
- Slides for ABCs of India (80K Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
- Josh Alper
- India from the Raj to Today (55K Microsoft Word document)
- Abe Mikell
- Understanding India (37K Microsoft Word document)
- Slides for Understanding India (414K Microsoft Word document)
- Abe Mikell
- India and Pakistan: Assessing Likelihood of Nuclear War (31K Microsoft Word document)
- Paul Dickler
- India Since the British (112K Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
- Schroeder
FPRI is pleased to acknowledge the support of The Annenberg Foundation for the History Institute.
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