UW Nepal Studies Initiative co-director David Citrin is in Nepal right now. He recently compiled his thoughts in the immediate aftermath for a thoughtful article for Humanosphere and includes in it advice for supporting Nepal’s recovery: The question at hand now is what to do, and what not do. Here, I humbly offer some guiding

Being in Motion Feminist Preconference Annual Conference on South Asia Madison, WI Thursday, October 22, 2015 Feminist considerations of experience, identities, and power are often considerations of moving bodies.  Sometimes this fact is made explicit; other times it is implicit. In many cases, movement is evoked metaphorically, without consideration of actual bodies in motion. This

On April 9th, 2015, the Nepal Studies Initiative team successfully held its first open planning meeting. 20 people attended the event, including students from the Nepal Student Association, representatives from the Nepal Seattle Society, and faculty from a range of interdisciplinary subjects. Topics discussed included plans for the Nepal Studies Initiative’s first course in Autumn

While you may hear broad, sweeping statements about India, anyone who has spent time in the world’s second most populated country knows that it is a place of dizzying variation and diversity, be it linguistic, religious, political, or otherwise. And so it is no surprise that second-year South Asian Studies MAIS student Quinn Clark found

The South Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies is pleased to announce the launch of the University of Washington Nepal Studies Initiative, funded in part by a Title VI US Department of Education National Resource Center grant. The Nepal Studies Initiative serves as an academic home for Nepal studies, and

The UW South Asia Center is excited to share that Professor Cabeiri Robinson‘s new book has been recognized by two organizations for its contribution to scholarship. Body of Victim, Body of Warrior was published in 2013 by University of California Press as part of the “South Asia Across the Disciplines” series. The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, 2 – 3:30 p.m. Communications Building (CMU) – 202 A roundtable discussion of new books by Priya Joshi (Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy, Columbia University Press, 2015) and Christian Novetzke (Amar Akbar Anthony, Harvard University Press, 2015), exploring Bollywood cinema of the 1950s-70s through some of its most famous blockbusters. Heidi

Applications are now open for the fall 2015 Explore India’s Himalaya – Culture, Politics, Environment Learn about development, culture, environmental issues, and conduct an internship / work service project with any of a number of different local NGO’s in the beautiful Indian Himalayan State of Uttarakhand. Courses (5 credits each) include: Political Economy of India:

New Course for Spring 2015 Sponsored by the South Asia Center and Middle East Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies This synchronous online course (with the option to meet in person) examines selected current and past hot topics that have shaped India, Pakistan, and the Middle East through specific lenses (e.g., J-Curve, nationalism,

The South Asian Art History collection at the University of Washington Libraries recently received the libraries’ Allen Opportunity Award of $ 7,500. This award is a huge boost for the library collection as well South Asian Art History program. Ms. Deepa Banerjee , the South Asian Studies Librarian was recently successful in securing Allen Opportunity