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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, …
Krishna Ella, founder of Bharat Biotech, who earned a PhD in plant pathology from UW–Madison in 1993, will receive an honorary degree at Spring commencement this May alongside Keith Nosbusch. Read the full announcement here
The Evelyn Goldberg Briggs Memorial Library received funding for their proposal as part of the “South Asia in Wisconsin” grant competition, organized by the Center for South Asia. With the funding, materials will be added to the collection to provide the community with a view of everyday life in countries located in South Asia.
“Our Libraries are Colonial Archives: South Asian Collections in Western and Global North Libraries” by Dr. Todd Michelson-Ambelang, Senior Academic Librarian for Scandinavian Humanities and South Asian Studies, was published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Read the article here
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.
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 …