CIEE Faculty Seminar Spotlight

India: The Interplay of Geography, History & Culture in Event & Experience

July 1-15, 2005

In cooperation with the CIEE Study Center at the University of Hyderabad and the Educational Resources 

Center Trust (ERC), CIEE is pleased to be able to include this multi-disciplinary, traveling seminar in its portfolio 

of summer 2005 faculty/administrator programs.

Established in 1974, the University of Hyderabad is a premier Indian institution of post-graduate teaching and research. 

It is the first federally funded university to be established in the southern part of India and now boasts eight schools, 

200 faculty, and 2,100 full-time students.

The ERC Trust is a non-profit charitable trust. Among its many activities, ERC has undertaken projects for the Indira 

Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, the Friedbert Ebert Stiftung Foundation, and a countrywide Diversity Initiative 

funded by the Ford Foundation which coordinates projects in over fifty colleges and five universities in India.

Guest lecturers for the seminar include experts from The University of Hyderabad, the ERC Trust, as well as specialists 

from several other private- and public-sector institutions. Among others, the schedule may include:

Dr. Jasbir Jain

Dr. Jasbir Jain, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Rajasthan, celebrated author, critic, and speaker has 

published numerous books and presented over 100 research papers in the broad field of literature with a strong focus 

on drama, ideology, and feminist and post-colonial literature. She has been the recipient of many awards 

including a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at Columbia University and the Birla Foundation Fellowship for Comparative 

Literature. Her interests include gender studies, women’s movements, Gandhian Ideology, pedagogy, and informal 

education. Jain’s many works include Feminizing Political Discourse: Women and the Novel in India, 1857-1905; 

Deconstructing Character: Transformations in Postmodernist American Drama; Writing Women Across Cultures; and

Gendered Realities, Human Spaces: The Writings of Shashi Deshpande.

Ambassador G. Parthasarathy

Mr. Parthasarathy is a career diplomat who retired from the Indian Foreign Service as Indian’s High Commissioner 

(Ambassador) to Pakistan in May 2000. During his illustrious career, he has served in Indian Diplomatic Missions in 

Moscow, Dar es Salaam, Karachi, and Washington, and held the position of India’s Ambassador to Cyprus, Myanmar,

 and Australia. In addition, Mr. Parthasarathy served as Spokesman and Information Advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv 

Gandhi. He is a syndicated columnist featured in several Indian newspapers, and has written articles for both the Wall

 Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Professional and Institutional Benefits

“The 2004 CIEE seminar, Perspectives on India, was very well-organized and provided insights into Indian culture that 

could only be experienced first-hand. I am sure that the many contacts I made in India will prove valuable. Already, I 

have put a graduate student interested in third-world women writers in contact with an Indian scholar who plans to take 

such students into the Himalayas for a workshop on third-world culture and literature."

"During this seminar I gained information about writers and texts that I will implement into my courses from the 

sophomore to the senior level. I plan to add a special topics course on Asian and Asian-American writers to the English 

department’s undergraduate offerings. In addition, I have planned a graduate-level course on multi-ethnic women writers 

to be delivered next summer.”  - 2004 IFDS Participant, Dr. Tamara Powell, Louisiana Tech University

Additional Seminar Destinations & Themes

Along with India, CIEE is pleased to offer 14 additional faculty seminars this summer. Destinations include Amsterdam, 

Argentina and Chile, Brazil, Brussels, China, Hungary and the Czech Republic, Italy, Jordan, Northern Ireland, Senegal, 

South Africa, Spain, Turkey, and Vietnam. Apply  before February 1, 2005 and receive a 5% discount off the seminar

 fee.

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