The 2021 Asian L&L Markus Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor David Shulman of the Hebrew University on May 4, 2021. His talk is titled, “Half-Bird, Half-Fish: The New Grammar of Time Past in Seventeenth-century Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit.” Although every generation has to discover, or rediscover, or reinvent its own links to the cultural

The East Asia Center (EAC) and South Asia Center (SAC) are pleased to support the Spring Quarter 2021 Global Business Forum taught by Professor Christina Fong, in partnership with the Foster School’s Global Business Center, the School of Law’s Global Business Law Institute, and The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). The Spring 2021 Global Business Forum features distinguished guests who will address the theme, “The COVID-19 Global Heath

Ahmad Abid Humayun is the Executive Director of Sanayee Development Organization, an Afghan NGO that has been working in the health, peace building, conflict transformation, and education sectors for 30 years. Today, the organization has over 3,000 staff engaged from grassroots to international levels. In the health sector specifically, they have been responsible for delivering

Sunila S. Kale, Associate Professor and Director of the South Asia Center, is the special issue editor of the November issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies on comparative land politics in China and India. Kale has also written on the topic in this recent piece also published in the Journal on November 6, 2020.

MA in South Asia Studies South Asia Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington, Seattle Deadline: January 31, 2021 Apply: https://jsis.washington.edu/programs/graduate/mais/ma-apply/ The South Asia Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington invites applications for the MA in South Asia Studies program. Located in beautiful Seattle, the University of Washington is one of

The South Asia Center is pleased to announce the 2020-21 recipients of the India Association of Western Washington (IAWW) Scholarship. The IAWW Scholarship supports the shared mission of the South Asia Center and IAWW to advance the study of Indian languages, arts, and culture. This scholarship was formalized in December 1995 with an agreement between Professor

SEATTLE – The University of Washington’s South Asia Center recently concluded our inaugural intensive Nepali language workshop, bringing together 26 language learners from across the country for two weeks of online learning sessions.  Organized by the Center’s Nepal Studies Initiative and led by Professor Binod Shrestha of the University of British Columbia, this workshop was

The South Asia Center seeks proposals from community college full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty for new course development, revision of an existing course, or creation of a new course module, all to be taught at their current institution. Download flyer as PDF Two grant programs are currently open for applications: Asian and Global Studies Course

During the 2019-20 academic year, South Asia Center faculty published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters on international and South Asian topics. Note: this snapshot of publications, covering articles published in peer-reviewed journals and books between roughly summer 2019 and spring 2020, is by no means intended to be exhaustive. Our faculty regularly publish

Like many organizations and individuals, we at the UW South Asia Center are striving to find ways to support our community during the COVID-19 outbreak. We hope the resources below are helpful for those in our community – from Seattle to South Asia. Stay well! Relief organizations and citizen initiatives Humanitarian organizations and citizen-led initiatives