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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.
April 14, 2025
LECTURE | Siddesh Gautam | Art Side of the Moon: Aesthetics of The Ambedkarite Movement
Siddhesh Gautam
February 27, 2025
LECTURE | Bharat Venkat (UCLA) | Can the Subaltern Sweat? Race, Climate Change, and Inequality
Bharat Venkat
February 25, 2025
LECTURE | Gaurav Pathania (Eastern Mennonite University) | Understanding Caste on Campus
Gaurav Pathania
January 30, 2025
Collaborative Book Celebration: The Yoga of Power
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Novetzke
January 23, 2025
South Asia and International Studies Alumni Career Panel
Quinn A. Clark, Thilini Kahandawaarachchi
November 22, 2024
LECTURE | Aswin Punathambekar (University of Pennsylvania) | Voice, Video, and Vernacular: Digital Media and the Politics of Cultural Regions
Aswin Punathambekar
October 24, 2024
From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Collector's Assemblage of Indian Cinema
Sudhir Mahadevan, Lyle Pearson, Navaneetha Mokkil, Salma Siddique, Usha Iyer
October 21, 2024
FILM SCREENING | "Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now and Then"
April 23, 2024
FILM SCREENING | Chaityabhumi | Screening and Q&A with Director Somnath Waghamare
Somnath Waghamare
April 11, 2024
LECTURE | Naisargi N. Davé (University of Toronto) | Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being
Naisargi Davé
April 4, 2024
PANEL DISCUSSION | Rule of Law, Democratic Transitions, and Authoritarianism in Afghanistan
Anila Daulatzai, M. Ramin Mansoori, Mohammad Bashir Mobasher, Shamshad Pasarlay, Aria Fani
March 6, 2024
BOOK TALK | Yashica Dutt | Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System
Yashica Dutt
February 15, 2024
LECTURE | Elora Shehabuddin (UC Berkeley) | Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Elora Shehabuddin
February 13, 2024
Navigating Global Careers: Careers in the Foreign Service
Matthew Bunt, Elizabeth Evans,Nolan Masterson,Dr. Nadine C. Fabbi
October 19, 2023
Vidya Krishnan Lecture: Plagues, Philanthropies and the End of Imagination
Vidya Krishnan, Deepa Rao
October 13, 2023
FILM SCREENING | Tortoise Under the Earth
October 12, 2023
Workshop on Migration and Health: Perspectives from South Asia
Nathalie Williams, Sarfraz Khan
April 11, 2023
PANEL DISCUSSION | The Afghan Diaspora, the Taliban, and Rule of Law | A Panel Discussion with Afghan Scholars
Sayed Akhlaq, Sharif Hozoori, Haroun Rahimi, Arzoo Osanloo
January 19, 2023
HYBRID LECTURE | Rise of Authoritarianism and Communication Policy in Bangladesh | Fahmidul Haq (Bard College)
Fahmidul Haq , Anis Rahman
December 1, 2022
HYBRID LECTURE | Ten Theses on the Idea of Indian Literature | Preetha Mani (Rutgers University)
Preetha Mani
November 12, 2022
Saturday University: Reimagining the Ganges River in North Bihar, India
Luisa Cortesi (International Institute of Social Studies)
November 4, 2022
SOUTH ASIAN IDENTITY IN A CHANGING WORLD | Chai and Conversation with the Directors of All That Breathes and In Search of Bengali Harlem
Alaudin Ullah,Vivek Bald,Shaunak Sen,Anand Yang, Alka Kurian
October 13, 2022
BOOK TALK | Beyond the Next Village: A Year of Magic and Medicine in Nepal (Mary Anne Mercer)
Mary Anne Mercer, Dr. Deepa Rao
June 2, 2022
Leaving No One Behind: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in the Context of Nepal
Dr. Meeta Pradhan
May 24, 2022
Navigating Global Careers | UW Alumni Panel
Ya-Han Brownlee-Chen, Deep Pal, Lauren Pongan, Stephen Meyers
April 22, 2022
SPECIAL EVENT | Gender Politics in South Asia and the Diaspora: Author Shobha Rao in Conversation with Alka Kurian
Shobha Rao and Alka Kurian
March 10, 2022
LECTURE | Scientific Desires: Bombay Cinema Between Industry & Illusion | Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University)
Debashree Mukherjee
February 3, 2022
LECTURE | Debt and the Plantation Errata of Politics in Sri Lanka | Mythri Jegathesan (Santa Clara University)
Mythri Jegathesan
December 2, 2021
LECTURE | Marxism, Caste, and Dalit Literature | Juned Shaikh (UC Santa Cruz)
Juned Shaikh
November 18, 2021
LECTURE | India’s Epidemic Intensities: Thinking COVID-19 Risk Environments | Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC Santa Barbara)
Bishnupriya Ghosh
November 4, 2021
Afghanistan and Its Regional Relationships | A Round Table Discussion
Salar Abdoh, Reşat Kasaba, Cabeiri Robinson, Arzoo Osanloo
November 3, 2021
FILM SCREENING | Future Rivers Film Series: Into Dust
Radhika Govindrajan, Sunila Kale, S. Charusheela, Faisal Hossain
October 14, 2021
SYMPOSIUM | In Search of a New Story: Underrepresented Muslim Voices in Mainstream Global Media | Tasveer Fest
Moderated by Radhika Govindrajan
July 16, 2021
Community College Master Teacher Institute: "The New Normal"
Presentations by Sunila Kale, Paula Holmes-Eber, Steven Meyers, Sam Kaplan, Ever Jones and Tanya Velasquez
June 3, 2021
BOOK TALK | Vikram Prakash, "One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash"
Vikram Prakash
May 17, 2021
Rethinking Global Health: The Changing Roles of Women in South Asia and around the Globe
Priti Ramamurthy and Ravinder Kaur
May 13, 2021
Caste and the Technology Sector: A Conversation with Anil Wagde and Raghav Kaushik
Anil Wagde and Raghav Kaushik
April 1, 2021
BOOK TALK | Anand Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia"
Anand Yang
February 4, 2021
Abhishek Kaicker on Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
Abhishek Kaicker (UC-Berkeley), South Asia Center
January 21, 2021
Natalia di Pietrantonio on the Ishqnama of Wajid Ali Shah
Natalia di Pietrantonio (SAM)
December 10, 2020
Manuscript Workshop with Koonal Duggal
Koonal Duggal (Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh), UW South Asia Center
November 19, 2020
Manuscript Workshop with Professor Arsalan Khan
Dr. Arsalan Khan (Union College), UW South Asia Center
October 29, 2020
#TSAL Symposium: South Asian Diaspora and Black Lives Matter
Dr. Akanksha Misra (SUNY-Plattsburgh, UW '20), Tasveer, UW South Asia Center
October 20, 2020
#TSAL Keynote: Sunila Kale in conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Tasveer, UW South Asia Center
April 30, 2020
Unintended Consequences of India’s Covid-19 Lockdown: Re-examining Mobility and Governance
Mukta Naik
January 22, 2020
Beyond Borders: South Asian Immigrants and the Northwest
Amy Bhatt, Bidisha Biswas, Rita Meher, Anand Yang, UW South Asia Center, Museum of History & Industry
January 16, 2020
Parks vs. People: An Unresolved Conflict in Nepal
Shradha Ghale, UW South Asia Center, Nepal Studies Initiative
January 9, 2020
Caste, Gender, and Citizenship in Contemporary India
Charu Gupta (University of Delhi), K. Satyanarayana (EFLU-Hyderabad), UW South Asia Center, GWSS, Department of History, Simpson Center for the Humanities
December 5, 2019
“God Will Never Abandon Us”: Christian Women, Moral Agency and the Nepal State
Lauren Leve (UNC-Chapel Hill), UW South Asia Center, Nepal Studies Initiative, UW Anthropology
November 18, 2019
Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
Alpa Shah, The London School of Economics (LSE)
November 3, 2019
Bollywood & Chai: Screening of Well Done Abba
Department of Asian Languages & Literature
October 16, 2019
Global Reciprocity: What Does it Mean to do Good in an Unequal World?
Simpson Center, African Studies, English, Center for Global Studies, JSIS, UW South Asia Center, CHID, IAS UWB
October 11, 2019
Colloquium: Buddhism, Trade, and the Making of an Avalokiteśvara Cult in Sri Lanka
Sanjyot Mehendale, UC Berkeley
October 4, 2019
Film Screening: The Sweet Requiem
Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam, Rabyoung Thonden Gyalkhang
October 4, 2019
TSAFF2019 Symposium: Filmmaking in New South Asia
Anand Patwardhan, Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam, Syed Muhammad Hassan Zaidi
July 2, 2019
Fulbright-Hays Group Seminar: Exploring Cultural and Social Diversities in India
UW South Asia Center, US Department of Education, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
May 30, 2019
Practice Without a Genre: Sanskrit Literary Histories of Muslim-led Incursions and Rule
Audrey Truschke
May 28, 2019
The 2019 Indian Elections: Reactions and Analyses
Sunila Kale, Anand Yang, Radhika Govindrajan, Amita Baviskar
May 23, 2019
Bhakti & Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Christian Novetzke, Heidi Pauwels, Anand Yang, Lorri Hagman, John Stratton Hawley, Swapna Sharma
May 11, 2019
South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest
February 14, 2019
A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta
Tariq Omar Ali
February 13, 2019
External Threats: Tracing the Emergence of Disaster Nationalism in Sri Lanka
Vivian Choi
January 26, 2019
The First Satyagraha: Gandhi's Campaign Against Indigo Plantations in Early 20th-Century India
Anand Yang
January 24, 2019
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.
January 12, 2019
Race, Gender, and the Publishing Industry in the USA
Amitava Kumar, Fatima Farheen Mirza, Sharmila Sen, Radhika Govindrajan
November 30, 2018
Career Alumni Panel: South Asia Studies and Careers in Technology
Andrew Glass, Anshuman Pandey, Kate Zyskowski
November 17, 2018
Jugalbandi [Duet]: Power and Pleasure in Indian Painting
Sonal Khullar, Yael Rice, Debra Diamond, Dipti Khera
October 22, 2018
REMEMBERING THE HUNTERWALI’S WHIP: the ghosts of Fearless Nadia and her many guises
Rosie Thomas
October 18, 2018
From High-Tech Housewives to H-4 "Dreamers:" Gender, Labor and South Asian Migration
Amy Bhatt
February 9, 2018
Book Celebration: Mobilizing Krishna’s World by Professor Heidi Pauwels
Heidi Pauwels
January 10, 2018
Truth and Power: The Origins and Influence of Gandhi’s Ideas of Nonviolence
Anand Yang
December 1, 2017
Poetics of Subaltern Life-Worlds: New Research, New Imaginaries of Informal Economies in Contemporary India
UW & visiting faculty & students
November 8, 2017
An Interview/Conversation with Zakir Hussain and Antonia Minnecola
Zakir Hussain, Antonia Minnecola
November 8, 2017
Posthumous Celebration of Carol Salomon's 'City of Mirrors'
Keith Cantu, Sayman Zakaria, Michael Shapiro, Rebecca Manring, and David Curley
November 3, 2017
Landscape Encounters: Materialities of Travel and Perceptions of Place in Precolonial India (c. 1340-1528)
Tamara Sears
October 16, 2017
Spirit of Benares North Indian Classical Music Concert
A. Ramachandra Pandit (Tabla) and Rabindra Goswami (Sitar)
October 3, 2017
Wives, Intellectuals and Ascetics: the Brahman Scholar Household in Early Modern India
Rosalind O'Hanlon
September 15, 2017
Memory Construction and Emotion in India, Past and Present
UW & visiting faculty & students