Hindi Urdu Flagship: Current News

HUF student wins two prestigious awards

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:07:00 +0000

The Hindi Urdu Flagship is delighted to congratulate its very own Ramu Kharel for his dual accomplishment of winning both the J.J. “Jake” Pickle Citizenship Award and the George H. Mitchell Student Award for Academic Excellence. Continue reading >

Ali Asani to speak on Khoja identity in South Asia

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:18:30 +0000

Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures at Harvard University, returns to the Hindi Urdu Flagship on Thursday, April 19 to give a seminar on Khoja Identity in South Asia at 3.30pm in WCH 4.118. Asani's talk is entitled From Satpanthi to Ismaili Muslim: Rearticulations of Khoja identity in South Asia. Continue reading >

HUF students win national Hindi debate

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:40:36 +0000

The quality of the Hindi Urdu Flagship's language training and student scholarship was once again recognized on a national stage as HUF students Florence Kerns and Ishita Paul both won first place in their respective categories at the prestigious national Hindi debate held at Yale University on April 6. Continue reading >

HUF launches major new website focused on the language of medicine

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:30:03 +0000

Friends and supporters of HUF nationwide gathered in Austin this week to celebrate the launch of a major new website focused on documenting and teaching the specialized language of healthcare in South Asia. Language for Health (hindiurduhealth.org) is the product of three years of substantial collaboration between HUF, The University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University, and New York University. Continue reading >

Critical Language Scholarship alumna to host informal Q&A

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:07:19 +0000

Emily Brandt, UT alumna and 2012 Critical Language Scholarship Ambassador, will host an informal Q&A session for HUF students interested in the CLS program on Thursday, November 3 at 6:30pm over coffee at the Starbucks on 24th St . The Critical Language Scholarship, a program of the United States Department of State, will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2012. Continue reading >

HUF revamps Hindi slideshow series

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:04:37 +0000

The Hindi Urdu Flagship has just relaunched Dr. Jishnu Shankar's Hindi slideshow series. Now named Presenting Hindi, the series features a redesigned interface and new presentations (with more to come). The series covers a broad range of fundamental grammatical features and 'topic-specific' language categories such as health, economics, and politics. Each presentation makes use of real-world Hindi cultivated from current Hindi periodicals and print advertising; a number also incorporate video material from Bollywood films and Indian television. Continue reading >

National Boren Director to discuss scholarships with HUF students

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:42:27 +0000

The Hindi Urdu Flagship is excited to host the Chris Powers, the National Boren Director, from 12-1pm on Wednesday, November 2nd in CBA 4.328. In a session exclusively for Flagship students, Powers will discuss the prestigious Boren Scholarship Program and answer any questions pertaining to HUF students in particular. Continue reading >

HUF to celebrate family weekend

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:22:48 +0000

In conjunction with UT's Family Weekend, the Hindi Urdu Flagship is hosting a luncheon Saturday, October 22nd in the main HUF center (HRH 3.102). HUF students are encouraged to bring their parents to meet HUF faculty, staff, and students. As this is a catered lunch, RSVPs are required as soon as possible. Continue reading >

Prestigious scholarship program recruits HUF students

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:47:38 +0000

Hindi Urdu Flagship students will have an opportunity this week to meet with a representative for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program.There will be two sessions with the CLS representative, Andrea Turpin. The HUF sponsored session will be this Friday, October 14th at 11am in Parlin 301. An earlier session will be held today (Thursday, October 13th) at 4pm in WMB 6.146. Continue reading >

Seminar on Bengali Cinema

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:16:43 +0000

Hindi Urdu Flagship students are invited to attend a talk on Bengali cinema by Dr. Shohini Ghosh this Monday, October 17th at 12pm in the Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118). Ghosh is the Zaki Hussain Professor of Media at the AJK Mass Communication Research Center. She is an essayist on popular culture and a documentary filmmaker. Continue reading >