On Thursday, May 13, the South Asia Center welcomed Anil Wagde (Ambedkar International Center) and Raghav Kaushik for a virtual panel on casteism and its manifestations in India and the United States. After brief remarks from each of the speakers, the audience chimed in with their own questions about recent legal cases addressing caste discrimination,

The 2021 Asian L&L Markus Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor David Shulman of the Hebrew University on May 4, 2021. His talk is titled, “Half-Bird, Half-Fish: The New Grammar of Time Past in Seventeenth-century Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit.” Although every generation has to discover, or rediscover, or reinvent its own links to the cultural

The East Asia Center (EAC) and South Asia Center (SAC) are pleased to support the Spring Quarter 2021 Global Business Forum taught by Professor Christina Fong, in partnership with the Foster School’s Global Business Center, the School of Law’s Global Business Law Institute, and The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). The Spring 2021 Global Business Forum features distinguished guests who will address the theme, “The COVID-19 Global Heath

Our graduate student assistant spoke with IAWW Scholar and South Asia FLAS Fellow Yogasai Gazula about her recent Digital Humanities Day event. Yogasai is an undergraduate in the Jackson School of International Studies with a focus on South Asia Studies. This spring, Gazula organized Digital Humanities Day with the support of the Husky Seed Fund, an award that brings to

Ahmad Abid Humayun is the Executive Director of Sanayee Development Organization, an Afghan NGO that has been working in the health, peace building, conflict transformation, and education sectors for 30 years. Today, the organization has over 3,000 staff engaged from grassroots to international levels. In the health sector specifically, they have been responsible for delivering

The last six months or so have been a productive period for scholarly publications at the UW South Asia Center. So far during the 2020-21 academic year, South Asia Center faculty and graduate students published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters on a wide range of international and South Asia-related topics. Graduate Student Publications

Sunila S. Kale, Associate Professor and Director of the South Asia Center, is the special issue editor of the November issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies on comparative land politics in China and India. Kale has also written on the topic in this recent piece also published in the Journal on November 6, 2020.

On Thursday, October 22, the South Asia Center hosted Dr. Shailaja Paik (Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati) to discuss her new book project “Becoming Vulgar”: Caste, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India. Bringing together students and faculty across multiple departments at UW, this reading workshop gave junior scholars a rare opportunity to read

On October 29, Dr. Akanksha Misra (PhD ’20, UW GWSS) moderated a symposium entitled “South Asian Diaspora and Black Lives Matter: A Cinematic and Literary Perspective” as part of the 2020 Tasveer South Asian Literature Festival. This virtual conversation brought together Professor Nalini Iyer (Seattle University), journalist Yashica Dutt, author Mary Anne Mohanraj, and filmmakers

On October 20, 2020, the Tasveer South Asian Litfest (TSAL) kicked off with a virtual keynote discussion between Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an award-winning Indian American author, and Prof. Sunila Kale, Director of the UW South Asia Center. Their conversation explored gender, power, and meaning in Indian epics, which Divakaruni’s works re-think from the perspectives of women