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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

Now Open at BAMPFA | Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold WarThe Institute for South Asia Studies is pleased to...
09/09/2026

Now Open at BAMPFA | Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War

The Institute for South Asia Studies is pleased to announce the opening of Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War, bringing together new and recent photography, video, and installation by Naeem Mohaiemen, Prajakta Potnis, TJ Shin, and Tiffany Sia.

Drawing on television broadcasts, popular music, and other forms of mass media, the exhibition examines how politics was articulated and contested through culture during the second half of the twentieth century—and how those histories continue to shape the present.

Private Frontiers asks how media technologies shaped perceptions of security, threat, and national belonging during the Cold War, and how their legacies continue to inform our relationship to media today.

Organized by Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and curated by Tausif Noor, Assistant Curator, and Atreyee Gupta, Associate Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of History of Art.

On view September 9–December 13, 2026.

Learn more and plan your visit via: https://mailchi.mp/321dae8a963c/south-asia-art-award-recipients-10157284

Image: Prajakta Potnis, still life, 2009. Digital print on archival paper. Courtesy the artist and Project 88, Mumbai.

The Institute, together with the Chowdhury Center and the Center on Contemporary India, hosted our Annual Reception yest...
09/04/2026

The Institute, together with the Chowdhury Center and the Center on Contemporary India, hosted our Annual Reception yesterday.

Despite the light drizzle, it was a warm and lively afternoon, with freshly made dosas, w**e, and a wonderful performance by Dil Se. More than 100 guests joined us, bringing together students, faculty, colleagues, and friends from across the Berkeley community.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the gathering such a memorable start to the academic year.

Here are a few photographs from the afternoon.

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.

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10 Stephens Hall
Berkeley, CA
94720

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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