American Institute of Indian Studies Podcast

About American Institute of Indian Studies Podcast

The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) was founded nearly sixty years ago to further the knowledge of India in the United States by supporting American scholarship on India. The programs of AIIS foster the production of and engagement with scholarship on India, and promote and advance mutual understanding between the citizens of the United States and of India. AIIS seeks to provide access to scholarship about India to a wide and diverse audience.Through this podcast series, we hope to explore various exciting AIIS initiatives and engage with our current and former fellows, students, instructors, and researchers in this challenging time for connection.

Publisher

The American Institute of Indian Studies

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Nov 2020

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Reflections on Leadership: A Conversation with Sumathi Ramaswamy and Sunila Kale

2. 

   24 Apr 2026

   The Drama of Democracy: Performance and Politics with Dr. Lisa Björkman

   In this episode, we’ll hear from Lisa Björkman on her new book: Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai. Dr. Bjorkman explains her approach to democracy through performance, emphasizing audience, interpretation, and "uptake" in how political displays are encountered and evaluated. The conversation explores representation as an embodied, real-time process shaped through rallies, crowds, and affective communication, and considers how Mumbai’s political theatricality challenges co...

3. 

   17 Sept 2025

   The Next Era of AIIS

   In this episode, we’ll meet the new Executive Director of AIIS, Dr. Emily Rook-Koepsel. As many of you know, the long-time US Director of AIIS, Dr. Elise Auerbach, retired this spring and has left us an incredible legacy of language, research, and outreach programs that have become the gold standard across disciplines for study abroad. Today, we’ll hear from Dr. Rook-Koepsel about this next era of AIIS, the plans for the future, and what to look forward to this year. For more information abou...

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Social presence

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