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One of the world's leading institutes for research on South Asia, UC Berkeley's Institute for South Asia Studies works with scholars and community organizations to deepen understanding of the region and create new generations of scholars of South Asia. One of the world's leading institutes for research and programs on South Asia, the Institue for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at the University of Cali

fornia, Berkeley works with faculty members, graduate students, community members, private institutions, and non-profit organizations to deepen understanding of the region and to create new generations of scholars of South Asia

October 2–3, 2026 A two-day conference exploring vaṭivam—form, shape, style, arrangement, and embodiment—in Tamil narrat...
09/02/2026

October 2–3, 2026
A two-day conference exploring vaṭivam—form, shape, style, arrangement, and embodiment—in Tamil narrative cultures.
🔗 https://southasia.berkeley.edu/language/tamilberkeley/uc-berkeley-conference-tamil-studies

Keynote: Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University
Convenor: Vasugi Kailasam, UC Berkeley
Speakers: Rukma Anil, Janani Mandayam Comar, Morgan J. Curtis, Swarnavel Eswaran, B. Geetha, Andrea Gutierrez, Vignesh Karthik Kandasamy Rajahmani, Shibi Laxman Kumaraperumal, Iona Macgregor, Preetha Mani, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Jesse Pruitt, Davesh Soneji, Praveen Vijayakumar, and Maanasa Visweswaran.

Fall 2026 is here, and there’s a lot going on at ISAS! Books, films, talks, conferences, grants, new opportunities, new ...
08/28/2026

Fall 2026 is here, and there’s a lot going on at ISAS! Books, films, talks, conferences, grants, new opportunities, new leadership and plenty more in between. Take a look at our Fall 2026 newsletter to see what’s coming up. We hope you’ll join us for some of it!

We begin the academic year with one of our favorite traditions: the Annual Reception at 10 Stephens Hall. Faculty, students, visiting scholars, alumni, community members, and friends are invited to reconnect, meet the Institute team, and preview the semester ahead. The afternoon will include refres...

We are delighted to welcome Padma Dorje Maitland as the new Associate Director of UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia...
08/22/2026

We are delighted to welcome Padma Dorje Maitland as the new Associate Director of UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies!

Padma Dorje returns to Berkeley and ISAS with a wide-ranging background spanning curatorial practice, education, architectural conservation, and scholarship on South Asia. Most recently, he served as the Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

A Berkeley alum with doctorates in Architecture and South & Southeast Asian Studies, Padma Dorje has a long history with ISAS—and we are thrilled to welcome him back in this new role.

Read more about Padma Dorje and his journey back to Berkeley:
https://mailchi.mp/cb687d461557/announcing-our-new-associate-director

06/28/2026

Munis D Faruqui, professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has spent nearly three decades immersed in Mughal archives. The result is ‘Aurangzeb Alamgir and the Mughal Empire’, in which he argues for a nuanced reassessment of the most controversial ...

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