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The South Asia Center

The South Asia Center lists events of educational value related to South Asia throughout the Pacific Northwest. We endeavor to include full information about timing, presenters, costs if any, and location, but it is always best to check listed web sites for the latest information.


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May 2013

RECLAIMING OUR COMMONS: Protecting our Land, Water, Biodiversity & Livelihoods

Thursday May 23, 2013
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Microsoft 50 / 3015 (4001 156th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

Bhargavi Rao & K. R Mallesha

seattle@ashanet.org 206.321.9456

Bhargavi Rao coordinates a wide variety of campaign initiatives, research, and educational projects at the Environment Support Group (ESG).

 

K.R. Mallesha has a background in Social Sciences and over a decades experience working with NGOs. 


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Current Challenges in Global Mental Health: An Interactive Discussion

Friday May 24, 2013
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Ethnic Cultural Center, Unity Ballroom Suite

Vikram Patel with Debra Kaysen & Jürgen Unützer

UW Dept of Global Health, UW South Asia Center, UW Dept of Psychiatry

snodgras@uw.edu

 


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A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

Tuesday May 28, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum

Qais Akbar Oman

Elliot Bay Books (206) 624-6600

Following William Dalrymple writing about Afghanistan in the 19th century, is this visit by Afghan writer Qais Akbar Oman, with an extraordinary memoir of being from a country so riven with conflict – A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story. See www.seattleartmuseum.org for admission information.

This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia."


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Pakistan Nuclear Program--In Conversation with Brigadier General Feroz Khan

Friday May 31, 2013
5:00 PM
Thomson Hall 101, UW Campus, Seattle

Brig. Feroz Khan

snodgras@uw.edu

 POSTPONED-TBA

Brigadier General Feroz Khan will talk about Pakistan's Nuclear Program, its history, its implications on Pakistan and wider regional and international politics, as he introduces his book "Eating Grass:The Making of the Pakistani Bomb." The book tells the compelling story of how and why Pakistan's government, scientists, and military, persevered in the face of a wide array of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons.

Feroz Khan is a lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. He served with the Pakistani Army for 30 years, most recently as Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, within the Strategic Plans Division, Joint Services Headquarters, and has represented Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral arms control negotiations. General Khan has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Studies and Cooperation, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory. He has also taught as visiting faculty at the Department of the Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

 

 

 

 


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June 2013

Cultural Impacts of the Death of Kingship, Identity Politics and Current Political Situation in Nepal

Monday June 3, 2013
3:30 to 5:00 p.m
THO 317

Bal Gopal Shrestha

snodgras@uw.edu

A discussion on the impact of the death of kingship on culture, and its relation with identity politics, janajati movement including the current political situation in Nepal.

Bal Gopal Shrestha is research associate at the School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. As research fellow at the University of Oxford (2009-2012) he carried out a research among the Nepalese diaspora in the UK and in Belgium. Dr. Shrestha made the award-winning ethnographic documentary Sacrifice of Serpents: The Festival of Indrayani, Kathmandu 1992/94 (Leiden, 1997) together with the late Van den Hoek and Dirk J. Nijland. He has published widely on Nepalese religious rituals, Hinduism, Buddhism, ethnic nationalism, the Maoist movement, and political development in Nepal.

 

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And the Mountains Echoed

Tuesday June 4, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle

Khaled Hosseini

Elliot Bay Books (206) 624-6600

Special visit by Khaled Hosseini, here with his first novel in six years, And the Mountains Echoed. All over the world – Afghanistan, San Francisco, Greece, Paris – inheritances are lost and found in this rich, multigenerational family tale. Details on tickets/entry to come. See www.elliottbaybook.com soon.

This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia."


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On Sal Maj Lane-Book Reading

Thursday June 6, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Elliot Bay Books, 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle WA 98122

Ru Freeman

Elliot Bay Books (206) 624-6600

Early word here, too, on a much-anticipated first Seattle visit by Sri Lanka-born writer Ru Freeman with her assured, moving novel of Sri Lanka approaching civil war, On Sal Mal Lane.

This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia"


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Citing As a Site: Translation and Circulation in Muslim South and Southeast Asia

Wednesday June 12, 2013
12:30-2:00pm
Communications Bldg. Room 202, UW Seattle Campus

Ronit Ricci (School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University)

seac@uw.edu

Networks of travel and trade have often been viewed as pivotal to understanding interactions among Muslims in various regions of South and Southeast Asia. What if we thought of language and literature as an additional type of network, one that crisscrossed these regions over centuries and provided a powerful site of contact and exchange facilitated by, and drawing on, citation?
Among Muslim communities in South and Southeast Asia practices of reading, learning, translation, adaptation and transmission helped shape a cosmopolitan sphere which was both closely connected with the broader, universal Muslim community and rooted in local and regional identities.
In this presentation I draw on examples from texts written in Javanese and Malay in present-day Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, preserved in manuscript and print forms. I look at a series of what I envision as “citation moments” or “citation sites” in an attempt to explore one of the many modes of inter-Asian connections. I wish to highlight how citations, simple or brief as they may often seem, are sites of shared memories, history and narrative traditions and, in the case of Islamic literature, also sites of a common bond to a cosmopolitan and sanctified Arabic.

Ronit Ricci holds B.A and M.A degrees in Indian Studies and psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. After spending time as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and NUS she moved to Australia where she is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. Ronit's research engages with Islamic literary cultures in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, translation studies, Javanese and Malay manuscript traditions, script change and the history of exile in colonial Asia. She is the author of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2011), which was awarded the 2013 Harry Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies.


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South Asia Center
University of Washington
303 Thomson Hall
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-4800 phone
(206) 685-0668 fax
►sascuw@u.washington.edu

Anand Yang, Director

Keith Snodgrass, Associate Director

Molly Wilskie-Kala, Program Coordinator

Nabeeha Chaudhary, Research Assistant

Robyn Davis, FLAS Coordinator
206-616-8679
►rldavis@uw.edu

Cabeiri Robinson, Graduate Program Coordinator