Professor Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology) published an insightful essay in Slate about automation and human labor in the era of COVID-19. “It may be tempting to believe that the best way to protect such workers would be to have drone delivery, grocery stores without checkers, and increased automated decision-making across fields as diverse as content moderation and

Professor Radhika Govindrajan (Anthropology) will receive funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support fieldwork for her current project on “more-than-human democracy” in Uttarakhand, India. You can read more about Dr. Govindrajan’s project and the 2020 ACLS Fellows at this link.    

Jennifer Dubrow (AL&L) recently published an essay in the online journal positions entitled “Singing the Revolution: India’s Anti-CAA Protests and Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge.’” This piece highlights the role of Urdu poetry in the current protests against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, with focus on the poem “Hum Dekhenge” by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a rallying cry in protests in India

Like many organizations and individuals, we at the UW South Asia Center are striving to find ways to support our community during the COVID-19 outbreak. We hope the resources below are helpful for those in our community – from Seattle to South Asia. Stay well! Relief organizations and citizen initiatives Humanitarian organizations and citizen-led initiatives

This collection brings together information on core resources for teaching, learning, and working remotely. Technology guides, UW policies, and articles on best practices for remote education are included in the links. A great starting point for instructors is UW’s Center for Teaching and Learning, which includes guides on remote teaching. Technology for Working Remotely For

During the last weekend in February, UW faculty and graduate students traveled to Vancouver, BC, for the 2020 South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN). Hosted by Simon Fraser University, this year’s gathering asked scholars to consider “Gaps, Blind-Spots, and Frontiers in South Asia Studies.” Dr. Sunila Kale chaired the first panel of the

On February 6, Professor Ather Zia (University of Northern Colorado) joined the South Asia Center for a talk on “The Erasure of Kashmir’s Autonomy and the Myth of Gender Discrimination.” Zia, co-founder of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective and author of Resisting Disappearance: Military. Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir, discussed the history of occupation

Professors Radhika Govindrajan and Cassie Adcock (Washington University in St. Louis) recently co-edited a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies focused on bovine politics in India. Featuring essays by Adcock, Sahana Ghosh, Shaheed Tayob, Kathryn Hardy, Aarti Sethi, and James Staples, the issue provides new perspectives on religion, law, and ethics in South

On Wednesday, January 22, the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), with the support of the South Asia Center, hosted the panel discussion Beyond Borders: South Asian Immigrants and the Northwest. Held in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibit Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation, the panel brought together local leaders in South Asian scholarship

Professor Heidi Pauwels (Asian Languages & Literature) was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to work on her book, The Voice of India’s 18th-Century Mona Lisa: Songs by Rasik Bihari of Kishangarh. Pauwels’ project explores the poetry of an 18th-century woman known as Bani-thani or Rasik Bihari, who was a court performer and favorite of