KHABAR LAHARIYA’ OR ‘WRITING WITH FIRE’: WHOSE STORY IT REALLY IS? On October 22, 2022, UW graduate student Anjali Yadav (Asian Languages & Literature) organized a panel at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Panel discussed the Oscar nominated documentary ‘Writing with Fire’ which depicts the journey of women

Recently, the South Asia Center graduate assistant interviewed Meghna Amin, a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow who has joined the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for AY 2022-2023. Read on to learn more about her journey to UW and her motivations behind her doctoral research. GA: To begin with, I am eager to know

From August 5–6, 2022, the South Asia Center at the University of Washington hosted Braj and Beyond: A Hindavi Reading Workshop. Organized by faculty members Heidi Pauwels (Asian Languages and Literature) and Purnima Dhavan (History) in conjunction with Anne Murphy of the University of British Columbia, this workshop brought together scholars from the University of

We are happy to announce that the UW South Asia Center has received the Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships grants from the U.S. Department of Education for 2022–26. As the core funding source for South Asia Center academic and outreach activities, the grants will ensure that

The Seattle Art Museum has selected an essay by UW undergraduate student Ji In to feature in their Object of the Week online publication. The essay, which discusses a Kālī image from the folk tradition of Mithila called Madhubani, was written as part of Professor Heidi Pauwels‘ Winter 2022 course “Gender and the Hindu Goddess”

Watch this exciting new video to learn more about our dynamic Sanskrit program! This video was produced by Assistant Professor Joe Marino, Lecturer Amruta M. Chandekar, and Dr. Russell Hugo of the UW Language Learning Center. Our ability to run a full course of Sanskrit language instruction depends on the support of community members and donors.

The South Asia National Outreach Consortium (SANOC), of which the UW South Asia Center is a member center, announces the 2022 recipients of the South Asia Book Award: 2022 Award Winners Dancing in Thatha’s Footsteps by Srividhya Venkat;  illustrated by Kavita Ramchandran (Yali Books, 2021). Thatha takes his granddaughter Varsha to weekly bharatanatyam classical dance lessons while her brother,

We are proud to celebrate another remarkable alumni accomplishment. Dr. Elizabeth Thelen is a 2006 graduate of UW with an Honor’s Thesis (BA) in Hindi from the department of Asian Languages and Literature. Dr. Thelen has recently published her book Urban Histories of Rajasthan: Religion, Politics and Society (1550-1800). This volume is the latest in the

Dear All, As the academic year comes to a close, I want to express my utmost gratitude for all the ways, small and large, in which you participated in and enriched our community at a time that continues to be marked by uncertainty and difficulty. We hosted several stimulating and well-attended talks this year, but

On June 2nd, 2022, SAC affiliated faculty Professor of Architecture Vikram Prakash participated in a panel for the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985 . Following the end of British rule in 1947–48, architects in the territories of today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka embraced the language