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The UW South Asia Center organizes and sponsors numerous events every year, from academic lectures and conferences to artistic performances and cultural celebrations. Browse events from the past academic year below, and check our events calendar for upcoming activities.


South Asia and International Studies Alumni Career Panel

LECTURE | University of Pennsylvania | Voice, Video, and Vernacular: Digital Media and the Politics of Cultural Regions

From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Collector's Assemblage of Indian Cinema

FILM SCREENING | "Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now and Then"







FILM SCREENING | Chaityabhumi | Screening and Q&A with Director Somnath Waghamare

LECTURE | Naisargi N. Davé (University of Toronto) | Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being

PANEL DISCUSSION | Rule of Law, Democratic Transitions, and Authoritarianism in Afghanistan

BOOK TALK | Yashica Dutt | Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System


LECTURE | Elora Shehabuddin (UC Berkeley) | Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Navigating Global Careers: Careers in the Foreign Service






Vidya Krishnan Lecture: Plagues, Philanthropies and the End of Imagination

FILM SCREENING | Tortoise Under the Earth
Workshop on Migration and Health: Perspectives from South Asia


PANEL DISCUSSION | The Afghan Diaspora, the Taliban, and Rule of Law | A Panel Discussion with Afghan Scholars

HYBRID LECTURE | Rise of Authoritarianism and Communication Policy in Bangladesh | Fahmidul Haq (Bard College)

HYBRID LECTURE | Ten Theses on the Idea of Indian Literature | Preetha Mani (Rutgers University)

Saturday University: Reimagining the Ganges River in North Bihar, India


SOUTH ASIAN IDENTITY IN A CHANGING WORLD | Chai and Conversation with the Directors of All That Breathes and In Search of Bengali Harlem

BOOK TALK | Beyond the Next Village: A Year of Magic and Medicine in Nepal (Mary Anne Mercer)


Leaving No One Behind: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in the Context of Nepal

Navigating Global Careers | UW Alumni Panel



SPECIAL EVENT | Gender Politics in South Asia and the Diaspora: Author Shobha Rao in Conversation with Alka Kurian

LECTURE | Scientific Desires: Bombay Cinema Between Industry & Illusion | Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University)

LECTURE | Debt and the Plantation Errata of Politics in Sri Lanka | Mythri Jegathesan (Santa Clara University)


LECTURE | Marxism, Caste, and Dalit Literature | Juned Shaikh (UC Santa Cruz)

LECTURE | India’s Epidemic Intensities: Thinking COVID-19 Risk Environments | Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC Santa Barbara)


Afghanistan and Its Regional Relationships | A Round Table Discussion

FILM SCREENING | Future Rivers Film Series: Into Dust

SYMPOSIUM | In Search of a New Story: Underrepresented Muslim Voices in Mainstream Global Media | Tasveer Fest


Community College Master Teacher Institute: "The New Normal"

BOOK TALK | Vikram Prakash, "One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash"

Rethinking Global Health: The Changing Roles of Women in South Asia and around the Globe

Caste and the Technology Sector: A Conversation with Anil Wagde and Raghav Kaushik

BOOK TALK | Anand Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia"


Abhishek Kaicker on Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

Natalia di Pietrantonio on the Ishqnama of Wajid Ali Shah

Manuscript Workshop with Koonal Duggal

Manuscript Workshop with Professor Arsalan Khan

#TSAL Symposium: South Asian Diaspora and Black Lives Matter

#TSAL Keynote: Sunila Kale in conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni





Unintended Consequences of India’s Covid-19 Lockdown: Re-examining Mobility and Governance




Beyond Borders: South Asian Immigrants and the Northwest

Parks vs. People: An Unresolved Conflict in Nepal

Caste, Gender, and Citizenship in Contemporary India

“God Will Never Abandon Us”: Christian Women, Moral Agency and the Nepal State

Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

Bollywood & Chai: Screening of Well Done Abba

Global Reciprocity: What Does it Mean to do Good in an Unequal World?

Colloquium: Buddhism, Trade, and the Making of an Avalokiteśvara Cult in Sri Lanka

Film Screening: The Sweet Requiem

TSAFF2019 Symposium: Filmmaking in New South Asia

Fulbright-Hays Group Seminar: Exploring Cultural and Social Diversities in India



Practice Without a Genre: Sanskrit Literary Histories of Muslim-led Incursions and Rule

The 2019 Indian Elections: Reactions and Analyses

Bhakti & Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart

South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest




A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta

External Threats: Tracing the Emergence of Disaster Nationalism in Sri Lanka

The First Satyagraha: Gandhi's Campaign Against Indigo Plantations in Early 20th-Century India

MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.

Race, Gender, and the Publishing Industry in the USA

Career Alumni Panel: South Asia Studies and Careers in Technology

Jugalbandi [Duet]: Power and Pleasure in Indian Painting

REMEMBERING THE HUNTERWALI’S WHIP: the ghosts of Fearless Nadia and her many guises

From High-Tech Housewives to H-4 "Dreamers:" Gender, Labor and South Asian Migration










Book Celebration: Mobilizing Krishna’s World by Professor Heidi Pauwels


Truth and Power: The Origins and Influence of Gandhi’s Ideas of Nonviolence



Poetics of Subaltern Life-Worlds: New Research, New Imaginaries of Informal Economies in Contemporary India


An Interview/Conversation with Zakir Hussain and Antonia Minnecola

Posthumous Celebration of Carol Salomon's 'City of Mirrors'

Landscape Encounters: Materialities of Travel and Perceptions of Place in Precolonial India (c. 1340-1528)


Spirit of Benares North Indian Classical Music Concert

Wives, Intellectuals and Ascetics: the Brahman Scholar Household in Early Modern India

Memory Construction and Emotion in India, Past and Present
