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The submission portal for the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia is open! The conference will be held in-person from October 19-22, 2022 (Wed-Sat), Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club. The theme for this year’s conference is Rebuilding: Tradition and Innovation. Submission Deadlines (by 11:59 PM CST) Symposium proposals: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Panel, round table, and …
Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini is a 2022-23 winner of the UW–Madison Exceptional Service Support Program award. Congratulations Dr. Mini!
Milton Public Library – Madison has been awarded the South Asia in Wisconsin Books Project grant from the Center for South Asia! This grant will allow them to purchase some new South Asia-related material for all ages. See their Facebook announcement here.
The “Empowering Educators to Teach on Genocide” virtual professional development workshop held January 15–16, sponsored by the area studies centers at UW–Madison, the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education and Resource Center (HERC), and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Attendees included teachers from Kettle Moraine, La Crosse, Madison, and Milwaukee, and other areas of Wisconsin. …
Amrita Chowdhury (Ph.D. Student, Asian Languages and Cultures) and Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D Candidate, Art History) translated two essays of Sacchidananda Mishra and Krushnachandra Panigrahi from Odia to English. The essays are now published from Routledge India under the title, Critical Discourse in Odia, a volume edited by Jatin Nayak and Animesh Mohapatra. Read about the book …
CSA FLAS student Nichole Springer was recently featured in an UW–Madison International Division student spotlight article by the International Division in which she discusses her experiences learning languages. Read the full article here
Judy Frater is the spring 2022 interdisciplinary artist-in-residence with Professor Jenny Angus as lead faculty. She is offering the course Design Studies 527: Diversity, Connection, Value and Sustainability – the Role of Hand Craft. Events throughout the semester vary from a virtual artist talk on Thursday, February 17 at 5:30 p.m. in partnership with the Chazen Museum of Art to a student panel about …
Professor Anthony Cerulli is an awardee in the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition. Find the complete list of winners here.
Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Professor of Law, has won a 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. See the full list of winners here.
Shahana Munazir, a graduate student in University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Department of Anthropology, has received the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Graduate Students. In a twelve-month ethnographic study, her work will understand how Muslim women habitually attend to others in their daily lives, the politics of relatedness that ensues from such care, social worlds that …