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Seventeen images of Indian manuscripts, archives, and archivists taken by Anthony Cerulli as part of his “Manuscriptistan” project are featured in the book Manuel du Prince Indien: L’Arthashastra de Kautilya, a French translation of Kautilya’s Arthasastra. The book also features an afterword by Professor Cerulli.Watch a short presentation by Professor Cerulli on the bookRead more about the book
Congratulation to Jennifer Angus, professor in the Design Studies Department in the School of Human Ecology, and Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, who have received Innovation Grants from the UW-Madison 4W initiative. Prof. Jennifer Angus’s project is entitled “Developing a Co-Design and Microenterprise Project in Nepal,” and Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini …
Previous CSA Director Anthony Cerulli has been on research leave for the 2021-22 academic year, with Rikhil Bhavnani, Associate Professor of Political Science, serving as the Acting CSA Director during this time. Professor Anthony Cerulli will return in the AY22-23 to continue serving his second year as CSA Director. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Mou Banerjee on receiving the Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the History Department, UW-Madison!
Dr. Todd Michelson-Ambelang and Dr. Mou Banerjee received the Library Collections Enhancement Initiative Grant to acquire British Foreign Office Files for Afghanistan and Burma. These grants will enhance the capacity for students and faculty to continue pursuing research on South Asia at the frontlines of academia in the US.
Funded under the Library Collections Enhancement Award by OVRGE, “South Asian Film and Media Collection” aims to build a research program on South Asian Cinema at UW-Madison by expanding the film studies collection. The proposed procurement includes trade magazines, film scripts, song-booklets, posters, and film-related ephemera to think critically about how South Asian cinema has …
Congratulations to Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Professor of Law, on receiving the 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!Read the full announcement here.
Congratulations to Professor Aparna Dharwadker on the launching of the Database of Printed Modern Drama in India! The Database of Printed Modern Drama in India is the first digital resource to offer bibliographic information about plays published in sixteen Indian languages, from the 1840s to the present. In alphabetical order, the languages are: Assamese, Bengali, …
Congratulations to Prof. Anthony Cerulli, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, on the publication of The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India with the University of California Press on March 15. The book will also be available open access on UCP’s Luminos.Read more about the book here.
Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini is a 2022-23 winner of the UW-Madison Exceptional Service Support Program award. Congratulations Dr. Mini!