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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 …
May 20, 2019- More News
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South Asia Events at UW-Madison
- October
- October 24CSA Fall Lecture Series: Meenakshi (Sumathi) Krishnan (Director, Research Centre, Music Academy, Madras)The Making of Carnatic Music (CE 1800- 2000) & The Forces of Change12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
- October 24Decedent as Epistemic Object: Ontologies, technologies, and enaction in a collaborative research programBrown Bag with Dylan Lott, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Healthy Minds12:30 PM, 8411 Sewell Social Sciences
- November
- November 7CSA Fall Lecture Series: Shivaji Sargar (Professor, English, Univ of Mumbai)Education: Its Status in India12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall