Center for South Asia News

Nichole Springer Featured in a Student Spotlight Article

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

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 Awarded a 2022-23 Vilas Associates Award.

Professor Anthony Cerulli is an awardee in the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition. Find the complete list of winners here. 

Professor Asifa Quraishi Landes Wins a 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

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 Receives Hyde Dissertation Research Award

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 …

Samantha Helle Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship

Samantha Helle, a PhD student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW–Madison, was awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship. Her study focuses on the tiger conservation in Nepal. Her project shows, “how various stakeholders in wildlife-conflict hotspots proactively mitigate conflicts in policies regarding tigers and the inner workings of community-based …

Tala Mela: A Celebration of the Universal Language of Rhythm

This final residency celebration event features performances by Arun Luthra, including konnakol, with the UW–Madison Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (Mead Witter School of Music), students in the class, and guest artist Rohan Krishnamurthy (percussion). Tala is an Indian music word for rhythm and mela means a celebration fair in Punjabi and Sanskrit and in Hindi – …

Spring Course Offering by Judy Frater

Judy Frater will offer Cultural Diversity, Connection, Value and Sustainability – the Role of Hand Craft in Spring 2022 Judy Frater is the spring 2022 interdisciplinary artist-in-residence with Professor Jenny Angus as lead faculty. She will be teaching Design Studies: 527 on Mon. & Wed. from 1:45-3:45 pm at 2194 Nancy Nicholas Hall. This 3-credit class …

First Semester Pashto Offered in Spring 2022

Please note that the Center for South Asia has opened a Spring 2022 FLAS competition for first semester Pashto. The deadline is Monday, November 22. You can apply here.

The Non Violence Project is now live

The Nonviolence Project is a comprehensive repository that educates and informs viewers on the impact of nonviolent protests all over the world. From environmental issues to racial equality, the project showcases how nonviolence has been used to address many different issues by prominent world leaders and activists. Nonviolence is also a big feature in activism …