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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Asian Languages and Cultures is pleased to announce the establishment of a new endowed chair dedicated to the study of Jainism, a religion started in India and now practiced …

Supporting Asians and Asian Americans during this Time of Increased Bias A Statement from ALC Leadership Last week’s tragic shootings in Atlanta that led to the killing of eight people, including six Asian women, have …

Professor Anthony Cerulli’s forthcoming book with the University of California Press was selected by the NEH for its Fellowships Open Book Awards program. His book, The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India will …

Jeremy Manheim (ALC, Ph.D. student) was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Grant. He will spend seven-months at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath (UP) studying the Sanskrit and …

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Join us in welcoming our new Assistant Professor, Jamal Jones to UW-Madison! Here are some highlights from his L&S New Faculty Focus: Hometown: Camden, NJ Educational/professional background: I received by BA (2008) in Religious Studies …

Dear ALC Community: For most of us, the first classes for Fall 2020 are already behind us, and as we move forward with the semester in earnest, I would like to take this opportunity to …

After 47 years on the UW-Madison faculty, William H. Nienhauser, Jr. (倪豪士), Halls-Bascom Professor of Chinese Literature, has announced his retirement at the end of the semester. The department would like to recognize his service …

Tyrell Haberkorn has won a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship for her project on a third book, Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand, a work designed to analyze the individual, social and legal impacts of the five years …