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The Division of the Arts Announces Arun Luthra and Judy Frater as Artists-In-Residence for the 2021-22 Academic Year.
Luthra is an American musician of Indian heritage who fuses modern post-bop jazz with elements of Indian classical music. Frater co-founded KalaRaksha Trust and Museum. An award-winning Ashoka Fellow, she founded the first design schools for artisans: Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya and Somaiya Kala Vidya. Read more.
To support our publishing exhibitors and scholarly community as well as provide our participants with a conference-like experience, the Annual Conference on South Asia is pleased to announce the Fall 2020 Virtual Book Exhibit. Flyers and links from our participating publishers are included on the Virtual Book Exhibit page of the ACSA website. Cambridge University …
The 2020 Conference on South Asia has been postponed until 2021. The full announcement, with preliminary information on proposals and registrations, is available here.
Community, education, and local government organizations and leaders presented a virtual town hall on May 19, 2020 in response to the hateful and xenophobic attacks against people of Asian descent in Wisconsin during the COVID-19 outbreak. Click here to learn more about organizations offering support and to watch the video from the town hall.
Anthony Cerulli (Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures) is one of several faculty and staff chosen to participate in the Faculty Exhibition as part of the Chazen Museum of Art’s 50th Anniversary celebrations in 2020. Cerulli’s contribution to the exhibit will include images from his Manusciptistan Project. A Gallery Talk is scheduled for April …
On October 25, the Tibetan Students Association and the Center for South Asia co-sponsored a showing of the Tibetan film, PAWO (2016). The film tells the story of a young Tibetan refugee in India after he has crossed the Himalayas. After the film, attendees participated in a discussion with the film’s co-director, Sonam Tseten
The J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History is a biennial event sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies in conjunction with the American Society for Legal History (ASLH). Each Hurst Institute is organized and chaired by a well-known legal historian and includes visiting senior scholars who lead specialized sessions. The program chair for …
On September 6th, the Center for South Asia celebrated the beginning of the Fall semester by welcoming back students and faculty with the announcement that we once again received Title VI National Resource Center and FLAS funding for the 2018-2022 cycle. The announcement coincided with the beginning of the Fall Lecture Series.
The Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) department hosted a symposium on Friday, April 20, 2018, to highlight Asian studies students and the departments’ new degree program. The symposium brought together members of the UW-Madison community to showcase student opportunities and experiences with Asian Studies offered by the university. Asian Studies participants showcased the impacts Asia has …