Pre-departure Training at Berkeley Day One

Sunday, June 30

Exploring Religious Pluralism in India Fulbright Hays Seminar Abroad 2013 July 1-2, 2013

Agenda

Arrivals and check in at Shattuck Hotel

Monday, July 1

8:30 Meet Behnaz Raufi in the hotel lobby and be escorted to the CSAS 9:00 Breakfast at the CSAS
9:30 Introductions

9:45 Overview of Program in India, Travel details, Q&A

• Adam Grotsky, Director, USIEF

• Girish Kaul, US Program Officer, USIEF

10:45 Break

11:00 A Summer in India: A Past Participant on her Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Experience

• Terri Ann Dye, Interim Director, Pupil Personnel Services and Special Education, Salinas City Elementary School District, Salinas, CA

12:00 Lunch at the CSAS

1:00 Traveling in South Asia – Practical Guidelines & Being a Cultural Ambassador

• Puneeta Kala, Program Director, Center for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

2:00 In Search of the Real: Religious and Philosophical Diversity in Early India
• Robert Goldman, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, UC Berkeley

3:00 Break
3:15 India’s Oral Histories: Understanding Partition through Human Stories

• Guneeta Singh Bhalla, Founder, 1947 Archive

4:15 I Am = a Father’s Daughter, a Brother’s Sister; a Husband’s Wife and a Son’s Mother

• Sudha Shetty, Assistant Dean, International Alliances & Partnerships, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

5:15 An Overview of Indian Politics: The Challenges and Opportunities of Democratic Consolidation

• Sandeep Shastry, Pro Vice Chancellor, Jain University, Bangalore 6:30 Dinner at India Palace