Dear SALTA Community,

Welcome to the 2022-23 Academic Year!

Last Fall, SALTA was able to offer a variety of successful language pedagogy and professional development workshops to our community. We appreciate your involvement and participation!

Together, we all advance our passions and purpose. The SALTA Board seeks your input for fall programming and working groups. If you have an idea that you would like to see SALTA coordinate, please let us know so that we can add it to the agenda and bring in as many members as possible to support your interests. The form for submissions is here: https://forms.gle/baKZkV7dZwY67Ju49 or you may contact a board member directly to include your idea.

We will review initial ideas at a business meeting on September 10, 2022 (9:00 a.m. UTC-5). At this meeting, the board will also vote to adopt amendments to the by-laws. We value your input and so the meeting is open to all members for discussion.

The Zoom link for the September 10 meeting is below. I hope to see you there!

Elliott

Elliott McCarter (he, him, his) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: SALTA Business Meeting

Time: Sep 10, 2022 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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We would like to inform you that Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in association with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Central Hindi Directorate (CHD) will conduct a 3-month online Hindi Awareness Course from September 1, 2022, remotely with a view to enhance learning opportunities in Hindi language to foreign nationals.

24 online classes in Hindi Awareness course will be organized twice a week from 1st September to 30th November 2022. Certificates will be issued by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on successful completion of the course.

Prior registration would be necessary. The link to attend the programme will be shared in due course of time.

You are requested to share the above information among the members of your organization. Interested participants can register for these classes by sending their details to pic.chicago@mea.gov.in in the format given below:

Name	Age	Email ID	Contact Number	Address

We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Ranjit Singh

Consul (Press, Information & Culture)

Consulate General of India, Chicago

Yuva Hindi Sansthan needs to immediately recruit a couple of candidates (college students or faculty members) for 2022 YHS FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. If you are a US citizen, national, or permanent resident,  willing to go on a study tour to India (Oct 29-Nov 26m 2022), and your career goal is teaching language, culture, social sciences, history, geography, (area studies). (Hindi proficiency is desirable but not a  prerequisite), please contact Ashok Ojha, Program Director, 732-318-9891 immediately or email him: aojha2008@gmail.com

Dear SALTA community. Marijana Janjic is researching Hindi Teaching for a publication. She needs to collect data from students who have learned Hindi in universities. She has prepared a survey for students and former students to answer. Would you please kindly distribute the link to the survey to your students and other individuals as you see fit. The survey link is here: https://forms.gle/GrKqYZSHbhVT5CC6A

Via Ashok Ojha

You will be happy to know that Yuva Hindi Sansthan, INC. has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays GPA Short-Term Project 2022 by the US Dept of Education. We are soliciting applications from suitable candidates and need your support disseminating the information to Institutions of Higher Education and community schools.

The attached brochure provides details about the YHS Fulbright-Hays GPA Short-Term Project 2022.  If you know someone who might qualify for this program, please encourage him/her to apply as soon as possible. The due date is July 15, 2022.

Applicants should apply online through the Google form here: 

tinyurl.com/yhsfulbright

Applicants are also asked to write a 500-word essay about his/her professional goals and the impact this program will have on your future career. Please email the essay as word or PDF attachment to: aojha2008@gmail.com 

You may also visit our website for more details:

https://21stcenturyhindi.com/fulbright-project

If you have any questions, please feel free to email or call the Program Director, Ashok Ojha, at 732-318-9891

The program focus is ‘Climate Change’ and its impact on communities in India. It is open to graduate and undergrad students whose career goal is language education as well as faculties and administrators who are involved in curriculum development. The program requires participants to travel to India on a month-long study trip (all trip expenses covered) tentatively during the Fall 202-month of Nov-Dec 22 . Student applicants should talk to their academic advisors about this program and the study tip. Please note the primary requisite for applying is: you must be engaged full time learning or teaching Hindi or area studies of either of these: history, social sciences, culture etc. During the four weeks of trip to India, program participants will collect authentic material related with Hindi culture as well as area studies related to ‘climate change’. On return to the USA participants will utilize the materials for K-14 Curriculum Development. Prof Gabreila Nik Ilieva, NYU, is the project’s Academic advisor. Myself and Gabriela ji will lead 12 participants on the study trip to India.  

Please see the following link for more information about the upcoming World Languages Seminar: (Link to Page)

https://worldlanguagesummerseminar.org/?fbclid=IwAR0Pd4PyNjyIqPMNsG81TtQZ9lrhTnB_QDWC4inwgY6EtTg1fFJhDMt_2a0

We are excited to have so many of you, familiar and new, join us this year as we gather to learn and share from each other our research and practices in teaching South Asian languages!

On this website, you may find the conference schedule converted into different time zones for your convenience since many of you are joining us from all over the world: https://mysalta.org/salta-conference-2022/

This is our first year using a hybrid format for the conference with some online and others in person. We are fortunate to be able to bring you in from wherever you are, especially since this is the first summer in recent years that many of us have had the opportunity to return home to visit our families. I look forward to gathering with several of you in Madison tomorrow and am eager to see the rest of you online. All of our sessions will use the same Zoom link: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/99205918636?pwd=M2UvMnhkT1ZsSWc0QnVwL0Z6eTl3QT09  Passcode: 8675309

Please feel free to email me or any other SALTA Board member with any last minute questions or difficulties.

See you soon!

Elliott

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are less than one week away from our annual conference! As you know this year we will be employing a hybrid format with some of us in person and some of us online. In order to get the Zoom links in a timely manner, you will need to be registered. Most of you are, but if you are not yet registered, please be sure to do so here: https://forms.gle/Bc6mnDLVWMVQK8xN8

After registering, please be sure to check your email on the first day of the conference for the Zoom links to the presentations. For those of you attending in person, we will have some great activities planned here in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin. Please be sure to let me know by Monday if you will be joining us in person so that I can be sure to make the reservations for the appropriate number of people.

I look forward to seeing you all soon!

Elliott

Sonia Sharma is doing a research study on the successes and challenges of learning Hindi in the US. I am recruiting adults who have previously taken one or more Hindi courses at a US university or college. The study includes a short email questionnaire and a virtual (Zoom) interview. Participants who complete the email questionnaire and virtual interview will receive an Amazon digital gift card. Please let me know if you or someone you know is interested by texting emailing sonia108lotus@gmail.com Thank you.

https://faculty.utexas.edu/career/96027

The Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor of Instruction in the Hindi language, to begin September 1st, 2022. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching three courses (or equivalent) each of two long semesters, including accelerated Hindi for heritage learners and second-year Hindi, according to departmental needs. Located at the flagship campus of the University of Texas System, our department offers a congenial and exciting context for teaching and research in the languages and cultures of South Asia.

Qualifications

Candidates must have at minimum a Master’s degree (Ph.D. is preferred) in the Hindi language or in a closely-related field. A record of teaching excellence in a university context is strongly preferred. We are especially interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research, and service.

Application Instructions

Interested candidates are invited to upload via Interfolio: 1) a cover letter detailing their qualifications and teaching experience, 2) a detailed curriculum vitae, and 3) at least three letters of recommendation. The deadline for applications is June 10, 2022. 

For complete details, please see the official posting at Interfolio: https://faculty.utexas.edu/career/96027.