June 12, 2015
Awards and honors: FLAS (Advanced Hindi 2013-2014, Intermediate Urdu 2014-2015) Interests: Popular politics and democracy, politics of development and poverty, social movements, and globalization in India. MA paper titles: (1) World Bank Versus Vote Bank: Governance, Development, and the Bahujan State in Mayawati’s Uttar Pradesh. (2) Capturing Power, Capturing Development: The Dalit Pursuit of Empowerment
June 8, 2015
UW assistant professor of anthropology Sareeta Amrute recently published her article “Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization” in the Spring 2015 volume of Public Culture. This essay reads the case of rape in moving vehicles against the texture of an unfinished liberalization. I argue that the violence of this gang rape and similar cases is firmly tied
June 4, 2015
UW Art History Professor Sonal Khullar has debuted her first book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India in May 2015. “Beautifully written, compellingly argued, Sonal Khullar’s book not only offers a major contribution to the study of Indian modernism, it also advances our methodological understanding of modern art at large. A vital addition
June 3, 2015
Last Saturday the South Asia Center was pleased to host “Adabi Nashist: An Urdu Literary Session. – complete with chai and samosas. Organized by Jameel Ahmad and Jennifer Dubrow (UW Department of Asian Language & Literature), the event brought together students of Urdu and Hindi from elementary to advanced levels of study, the local South Asian
May 19, 2015
Cities of the Global South URBDP 498B/598B A-term (June 22nd-July 22nd) MW 10:30am-12:20pm Gould 208J Since the end of the twentieth century, a majority of the world’s largest urban agglomerations are located outside the Global North, in the Global South where the largest and fastest wave of urbanization in human history is now underway. This urbanization
May 19, 2015
Please join the UW South Asia Center in congratulating Hannah Haegeland who has won a prestigious Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship. Fall 2015 Scoville Fellows were chosen from among 164 candidates who attended 113 universities in 33 states. As part of her fellowship, she will be working at the Stimson Center in Washington D.C. Hannah is currently completing her MA in
May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015
Introduction to Postcolonial Literature, focus on Pakistan and South Asia ENGL 316A/CHID 250C Autumn Quarter T, TH 8:30am-10:20am SMI 407 Once part of the global British Empire and now officially independent, countries like Kenya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Jamaica, India and Barbados have performed and negotiated their break from colonialism in sometimes different, sometimes similar ways. Our
May 13, 2015
[This article is a repost from the Jackson School of International Studies Blog] Over 30 Seattle area K-12 teachers learned the latest on “Global Asia: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” this year thanks to a unique, decade-long collaboration between The Seattle Times and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. On April 29, 2015, the
May 11, 2015