On October 4, the South Asia Center sponsored a symposium on ‘Filmmaking in New South Asia,’ as part of the 2019 Tasveer South Asian Film Festival. Moderated by Dr. Alka Kurian, the panel discussion featured Anand Patwardhan (Reason), Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (The Sweet Requiem), Syed Muhammad Hassan Zaidi (Dunkey Following European Dreams) and Professor

The South Asia Center is proud to be a sponsor of the 2019 Tasveer South Asian Film Festival. This year Tasveer has collaborated with the South Asia Center to bring a film screening and panel discussion to the UW Seattle campus, both on October 4th. At 4 PM attend the symposium Filmmaking in New South Asia,

  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

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

  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

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

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

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

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