an undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu while majoring in a wide variety of programs, including Business, Communications, Engineering, and Liberal Arts.
The Flagship's Hindi-Urdu seminar series contines this Tuesday, Nov 4 at 3 pm in the Santa Rita Room, Texas Union 3.502. Arvind Mehrotra, visiting poet, essayist, translator, editor, and Professor of English at the University of Allahabad, will give a talk entitled "Translating Kabir". A reception with refreshments will follow the talk. Visit our seminar series page for more information, videos of past seminars and details on upcoming speakers.
Renowned Urdu humorist, Mujtaba Hussain, continued the Flagship Speaker Series on Oct. 8 with readings from his catalog of Urdu satire. Videos of the talk and subsequent discussion are available online. The event was featured in the leading Urdu daily newspaper, Siasat. Click here to view the article. Visit our seminar series page for more information, videos of past seminars and details on upcoming speakers.
Want to know what faculty and students think of the Flagship? Our informational video provides an introduction to the people and places that form the Flagship experience. If you are unable to visit campus this is a great way to catch a glimpse of the academic and social environment created by the Flagship.
You can watch our video online or download it (Quicktime required). A in-depth film is available on DVD. Email us and we'll send you a free copy!
The Flagship has just launched Hamaarii Bolii, a new web-based database of self-produced, video interviews with Hindi-Urdu speakers. The site features clusters of short video responses to questions covering a wide variety of topics from conversational strategies to social issues. The database continues to grow with new material recorded regularly in India, Pakistan, and the United States. Hindi-Urdu students and teachers everywhere are free to use the site to enhance their own classroom experience.