Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Rakesh Ranjan, and Aftab Ahmed on the Hindi-Urdu program at Columbia’s MESAAS Department
In this panel, professors Rakesh Ranjan, Aftab Ahmed, and Isabel
Huacuja Alonso will discuss their Hindi-Urdu related research and
pedagogy projects. Ranjan will speak about a new audio-visual
interactive modules project. These pedagogical video clips, based on
real-life situations with varied linguistic, social, and cultural
content, follow the ACTFL guidelines and National Standards (5Cs) and
engage students in the three modes of communication (interpretive,
interpersonal and presentation). Ahmed will speak about his newest
publications: translations from Urdu to Hindi of Mushtaq Ahmed
Yousufi’s Aab-e-Gum (Vanished Water) and Zarguzasht (Pseudo-Memoir).
He will also present on his pedagogy project, a set of lesson plans
based on “flash fictions” or “microstories” and “pocket ” Hindi
films (5-15 minutes). Huacuja Alonso will speak about her forthcoming
Columbia University Press book, Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu
Broadcasting Across Borders, and will briefly discuss her newest
course at Columbia, “Sound and Listening Cultures of the Indian
Subcontinent,” which explores major themes in the field of Sound
Studies with a focus on South Asia.
For those who cannot join us in person, here is the Zoom link:
https://columbiauniversity.