July 24, 2019
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is accepting applications from faculty at community colleges and minority serving institutions for a fully funded faculty development seminar in India. The program will take place from December 26, 2019 through January 10, 2020. Participants will explore urban sustainability in
July 23, 2019
Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asia Center affiliate Sareeta Amrute has won the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2019 book award in the social sciences for her book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin. Professor Amrute has also received the The Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association for the book. Read
June 10, 2019
May 20, 2019
The South Asia Center is a proud sponsor of the Seattle International Film Festival. This year the Center is sponsoring a film from Sri Lanka titled House of My Fathers. In addition, two other South Asia films will screen at this year’s SIFF. They are The Sweet Requiem, and Widow of Silence. Find more details
May 17, 2019
2019 Award Winners The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art by Barb Rosenstock; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola (Candlewick Press, 2018). In 1947, Nek Chand began building a Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India, using natural and discarded manmade materials, including broken glass, porcelain from chipped sinks, old bicycles and
May 2, 2019
Professor Jennifer Dubrow’s new monograph, Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literature in Colonial South Asia, is receiving rave reviews across the pond. Jennifer’s work looks at the development of Urdu literary culture as a contemporary rejoinder to a complex milieu of intercultural influences in North India. Her disquisition highlights the intersection of colonial
April 24, 2019
The South Asia Center at the University of Washington expresses its deepest sympathies for those who lost their lives and all the families affected by the bombings on Easter morning in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa. We are deeply saddened and troubled by the events in Sri Lanka. It remains important during these moments of shock
February 25, 2019
Anita Harker is a sociologist at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Washington. Harker received an Asian Studies Development Grant from the Jackson School to develop and teach a new course on Nepal. She traveled to Nepal in 2018 to gain a fresh perspective on the country as she prepared the new course; below are her
November 29, 2018
On Saturday, November 17th , 2018, the South Asia center hosted a symposium called Jugalbandi [Duet]: Power and Pleasure in Indian Painting. Sonal Khullar aptly began the evening with a detailed introduction informing the audience about the ways which the esteemed guest presenters have contributed to the critical analysis of Rajput and Mughal painting. To
November 6, 2018
The Kumaon region of Uttarakhand borders Nepal and is in India’s central Himalayas. On October 29th 2018, Radhika Govindrajan read excerpts from her book Animal Intimacies, which lays out the ethnographic work she conducted in the area’s mountain villages and explores the nuances of animal-human relationships in the region. Govindrajan gripped the audience from the