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 Hindi Song Book, the first installment of an open access Manifold-created journal in collaboration with UW Libraries, officially launched last week. This project is the result of a collaborative effort of UW Librarians Verletta Kern and Dylan Burns, Hindi instructor Heidi Pauwels, and graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Washington in Seattle, with

Spring 2025 South Asia Center Graduate Student Workshop and Reception Friday, May 30, 2025 Thomson Hall Room 317 Workshop and Keynote: 10:00am – 4:00pm Reception: 4:00 – 5:00pm The Spring 2025 South Asia Center Graduate Student Workshop will feature presentations from current UW graduate students spanning a range of topics and disciplines across 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.

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.

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.

In our continued effort to spotlight recent scholarly outputs of our faculty, the South Asia Center is proud to present a summary of recent publications that contribute to various fields related to South Asia Studies and beyond. The list below contains a snapshot of scholarly publications related to South Asian or international topics appearing since

Comparative Religion MA student Joyeeta Das recently contributed a story to Tumulayan, an annual literary journal published by the students of the Centre for Comparative Literature at Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. Das writes of her contribution: This is my third and first-ever Bangla contribution to Tumulayan, a prestigious magazine published by Rabindranath

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.