The South Asia Center congratulates two recent Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellows on receiving prizes from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies! Yogasai Gazula (BA International Studies, FLAS Fellow in Hindi and Sanskrit) received Best Undergraduate Paper for her paper, “Always On-Demand: How the Gig Economy is Changing Traditional Work Practices,” which she wrote this

The Summer 2021 Nepali Language Program was one of the largest global gatherings for Nepali language training … ever. This two-week online intensive language training program featured 41 students across 2 language learning levels: 24 beginners 17 advanced beginners / low intermediate Participants hailed from 7 countries: Bangladesh Canada China India Netherlands United Kingdom United States Participants included:

Seeking a Telugu Instructor Department of Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 The Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, invites applications for a part-time, temporary lecturer to teach one course, most likely, ‘Elementary Telugu’ in Winter Quarter (January–March 2022) and a second course, most likely in continuation

The South Asia Center is now accepting applications from high school students for our Summer 2021 workshop, Urdu for High School Students! In this 2-week workshop, students will learn basic written and spoken Urdu, one of the major languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Classes will include writing, listening, and speaking exercises; collaborative projects; and

During the 2020-21 academic year, the UW South Asia Center thrived in its mission to support the study of South Asia in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We were proud to host and support a wide range of engaging programming – all of it virtual – in our communities this year. We invite you to explore the highlights

Learning about India just became a little easier for students at the University of Washington, thanks to a recent gift of $100,000 to the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from longtime UW donors S. Rao and Usha Varanasi. Both are also UW alumni. The fund, to be known as the S. Rao and Usha Varanasi

For the final South Asia Studies colloquium of the 2020-21 academic year, on Thursday, June 3, Professor of Architecture Vikram Prakash gave a reading from his book, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. One Continuous Line explores and celebrates the life and work of the Indian modernist architect – and the author’s

The UW South Asia Center congratulates the 2021 graduates of the Master of Arts Program in South Asia Studies! Urooj Hanafi Degree: MA in South Asia Studies, Jackson School of International Studies Research interests: Islam as practiced in South Asia; Sufism; Islamic mysticism; qawwali; female qawwals; the concept of sharafat in Pakistan; folk Islam; the role of

Recap by Asha Kadakia, MPH (Global Health) Candidate On Monday, May 17, the South Asia Center partnered with the UW Department of Global Health to put on a student-led panel in the GH 593  “Rethinking Global Health” course, with instructors Deepa Rao and Ahoua Kone. Moderated by students from the Department of Global Health’s MPH

Read co-author David Citrin’s recent op-ed in The Conversation: With COVID-19 cases surging, Nepal asks global community for urgent vaccine help. David Citrin is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology, and leads the South Asia Center’s Nepal Studies Initiative in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.