Spring 2026 South Asia Center Graduate Student Conference and Reception Friday, May 15, 2026 Thomson Hall Room 317 Conference: 9:15am–3:45pm Keynote: 4:00–5:30pm Reception: 5:30–7:00pm The Spring 2026 South Asia Center Graduate Student Conference will feature presentations from current UW graduate students spanning a range of topics and disciplines across South Asia Studies. This is an

This list contains courses explicitly on a South Asian topic and courses with an international or relevant thematic focus taught by South Asia Center affiliated faculty. Always double-check the UW Time Schedule for the most current course information. AREA COURSES JSIS A 207 Asian Civilizations: Traditions Instructor: Deborah Porter Asynchronous Online 5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN: 15594 Course Description 

The Jackson School of International Studies recently hosted Milan Vaishnav to speak on “The US, India and the World” as part of the Trump in the World 2.0 lecture series. In this podcast, Vaishnav joined Jackson School faculty Radhika Govindrajan and Sunila Kale. Our guest talked about a range of topics including his route to

Dear Friends of the South Asia Center: I hope this note finds you well. As we come to the end of an eventful year (to say the least), I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to each of you for the myriad ways in which you have engaged with and enriched the South Asia

This list contains courses explicitly on a South Asian topic and courses with an international or relevant thematic focus taught by South Asia Center affiliated faculty. Always double-check the UW Time Schedule for the most current course information. ART H 209: Photography’s Histories in India Instructor: Akshaya Tankha 5 credits (A&H, W) | SLN 10506 Course Description Dominant accounts of

With the Middle East Center, the South Asia Center hosted an exciting interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Washington Seattle campus in October. The symposium, titled “Gender, Translation, and the Short Form in the Eurasian Periodical,” brought together scholars working across Urdu, Persian, Uzbek, Hindi and Tamil literary-periodical cultures in two days of stimulating panels,

Over the summer, JSIS South Asia MA student Karthik Malli worked with the Script Encoding Initiative (SEI) at UC Berkeley on exploring the relationship between script, writing technology, and modernity in India. Karthik’s project looked at how the arrival of the typewriter in India spurred language communities to standardize and reform their writing systems, and

The 2025 session of the UW Nepali Summer Language Program marked its sixth anniversary, bringing together students from across the world for intensive Nepali language instruction. The Nepali Summer Language Program, part of the South Asia Center’s Nepali Studies Initiative, offers students a gateway for Nepali language and cultural immersion, bringing attention to a part

The South Asia Center recently sat down with Sravanthi Kollu, who recently joined the Department of Asian Languages and Literature as UW’s first-ever Assistant Professor of Telugu, to learn more about her scholarship and teaching interests. SAC: To begin with, we are eager to know what inspired you to choose the fields of literary history,

Dear Friends of the South Asia Center, I hope this note finds you as well as can be in these tumultuous times. As we come to the close of another academic year, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the many ways in which you continue to engage with and