Digital Storytelling for Interdisciplinary South Asian Studies

Friday, April 12, 2024
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Kuykendall 106 Events Room

We teach South Asian languages, interdisciplinary South Asian studies, and utilize examples from South Asia in topical courses beyond language and area studies. Integrating digital storytelling methods into our teaching and highlighting South Asian languages through our digital stories can add an exciting new dimension to our classrooms. While addressing the issues we study in our research and approach through our creative work, it can also highlight the languages in which we live much of our lives, giving students the chance to experience their sounds and cultural associations. 

In this workshop we will explore ways to create videos highlighting aspects of our own research, or topics of importance to us, in the South Asian languages that we speak. Videos may include short films, video interviews, narratives, conversations, short conference-style presentations, and more. We will gain the skills to create these videos, and associated materials from subtitles and transcripts to lesson plans, as open access resources to be used in advanced language classes and across the social sciences and humanities.

If you teach languages other than South Asian, this workshop will give you digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool and model to use in your own language classes.

This workshop is part of the UISFL-supported project, “Hindi, Urdu Language Learning and South Asian Studies: Innovating an Interdisciplinary Curriculum with Digital Storytelling” (Sai Bhatawadekar, Project Director).

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Presented by

Sai Bhatawadekar
Professor, Hindi & Urdu

Anna Stirr
Director, Center for South Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Asian Studies

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This event is cosponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE).