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The Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is made up of a community of faculty and staff who reflect the diversity and global relevance of South Asian Studies.
Through our diverse academic disciplines, summer language institute, annual conference, student organizations and outreach programs, the Center seeks to define and promote greater understanding of South Asian history, language, religion and culture.
We also support linkages to other relevant area studies and global studies programs that emphasize transnational flows of culture, people, money in ways that are important to a better understanding of South Asia both in the past and the present.
Center for South Asia News
Manuscriptistan Exhibit by Anthony Cerulli at Penn Library
Penn Libraries will feature a photography exhibition by Anthony Cerulli (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UW-Madison) this fall. Manuscriptistan focuses on the diverse manuscript traditions and practitioners across the South Asian region. Cerulli spoke …
September 4, 2019Girish Karnad: Tribute to an Icon
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker I first met Girish Karnad in April 1986, at the Chicago home of our close mutual friend A. K. Ramanujan, who had organized the Festival of India literary conference …
June 12, 20192019 South Asia Book Awards Announced
In recent years, an increasing number of high-quality children’s and young adult books have been published that portray cultures, histories, and contemporary issues in South Asia or dealing with South Asians living abroad. To encourage …
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South Asia Events at UW-Madison
- September
- September 16CSA Fall Lecture Series: Dr. Ilse Kohler-Rollefson (Projects Coordinator, League for Pastoral People and Endogenous LiveCulture, Commerce, and Conservation: The Curious Case of the Camel12:00 PM, 15 Science Hall
- September 19CSA Fall Lecture Series: Nathan McGovern (Assistant Professor, Philosophy & Religious Studies, UW-Whitewater)Following the Snake and the Mongoose: Brahmanism and Its Avant-Garde in the Period Between the Empires12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
- September 20CSA Fall Lecture Series: Thomas Blom Hansen (Professor, Anthropology, Stanford University)Democracy Against the Law: Reflections on India's Illiberal Democracy5:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall