Andrea Fowler (Assistant Director, CSA), Essie Lenchner (Assistant Director, IRIS NRC), and Nola Walker (IAS Outreach Librarian, UW–Madison Libraries) have been awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant. This three-year grant supports their Teaching Forward Fellowship, which connects Wisconsin middle school educators with experts in international studies, educational policy, community leadership, and trauma-informed pedagogy to …
The Center for South Asia was proud to co-sponsor “AI and Society: Community Impacts and New Directions,” a two-day workshop hosted by UW–Madison’s IRIS centers at the Madison Concourse Hotel. Bringing together over 55 educators, business leaders, and community partners, the event explored the far-reaching implications of artificial intelligence—from education and journalism to environmental resilience …
The Center for South Asia was awarded a two-year Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grant from the Department of Education to fund a project titled “Language Pathways Program: International Business and Sustainable Development in India.” This program will support language instruction and provide undergraduate scholarships for language and area studies training and study abroad.
UW-Whitewater’s Roberta Art Gallery is honored to host UW-Madison Professor Anthony Cerulli and his work in “The Aesthetic Shape of History.” Cerulli’s photographs, which will be on display from Nov 8th to Dec 11th, demonstrates the power of the space in which these archives are stored. There will be a panel discussion, audience Q&A, and open …
Dr. Anthony Cerulli’s, ongoing multi-media project, Manuscriptistan, will have another photo-ethnography exhibit this fall (Nov. 8 – Dec. 11) at Roberta’s Art Gallery in Whitewater, WI: “The Aesthetic Shape of History”
Jonathan Durr at UW-Madison has taken on the role of co-coordinator for the newly established South Asia SACO Funnel at the Library of Congress’s Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). One of the South Asia SACO Funnel’s inaugural projects is dedicated to revising the geographic Subject Heading “Mogul Empire” to the more accurate and contemporary “Mughal Empire.” …
The Wisconsin in the World edited book explores how internationalization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW) has been a decades-long, ongoing endeavor. Against that backdrop, the various chapters also provide a snapshot of how people across the UW campus were reflecting on their work amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and on the implications of the pandemic regarding …
Todd Michelson-Ambelang, Associate Lecturer and Bibliographer for Scandinavian Humanities, Classics, Jewish, and South Asian Studies, together with a team of interdisciplinary collaborators across UW–Madison, have been awarded $5 million by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).
The December 2020 Center for South Asia Newsletter is now online. We are so proud of the many accomplishments of out our students, staff, and faculty amidst what has proven to be an extraordinarily challenging year. Check it out to get up to date on what the Center has been up to over the past …