On July 9th 2018 the South Asia Center released its annual report. The report reviews the breadth of Center activities over the past academic year and celebrates the many accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff. Students conducting research on South Asia have received coveted fellowships to support their projects, and graduating PhDs are landing

Assistant professor of anthropology and South Asia Center affiliate Radhika Govindrajan published a book last month through the University of Chicago Press. Titled Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas, the book has already received critical acclaim, winning the Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities from the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Aruna Roy is an activist and social worker from India. She is the founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and has been a powerful voice behind the Right To Information (RTI) movement and the Right To Information Act enacted because of it. She recently published a book on the movement titled The RTI

            The South Asia National Outreach Consortium (SANOC) has announced the winners of the 2018 South Asia Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (SABA). SANOC is also accepting submissions for the 2019 award. This year’s winners are – Nancy Churnin and Danny Popovici for Manjhi Moves a Mountain

On the 11 of May, students and faculty gathered together for an informal book discussion about Shahab Ahmed’s groundbreaking work, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic. For such a challenging work, the turn out was heartening— more than thirty people in total were involved in the discussion, from various disciplines and departments, including NELC, History,

This talk by journalist Chitrangada Choudhury traced how substantive decision-making power over extractive projects is denied to India’s indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, even as they have clinched rights to ownership and consent, under the landmark Forest Rights Act, 2006. Examining the ‘free, prior, informed consent’ mechanism provided under the act, Chitrangada argued that the possibilities and

Sweating Saris is an interactive multimedia dance performance based on the book Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor by artist & scholar Dr. Priya Srinivasan. It explores the ways that performance as research can come alive from page to stage. Choreographed by Dr. Priya Srinivasan & Ramya Harishankar, and performed on April 27th, 2018

Manjushree Thapa, acclaimed Nepali author and former UW creative writing student spoke in Thomson Hall on Thursday April 19th. Weaving together stories of her time at UW and experiences of Nepali society and political transformation, she raised questions about power, subjectivity, and representation. Manjushree recalled writing workshops at UW and the ways they shaped her

Divya McMillin, South Asia Center faculty member, professor of global media studies, and executive director of the UW Tacoma Institute for Global Engagement &  global honors program will deliver the keynote address at the 14th Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium. Professor McMillin will speak on ‘Teaching in Global Classrooms’. The 2018 Teaching & Learning Symposium

Associate Professor of Art History and South Asia Center affiliate Sonal Khullar traveled to London this week to deliver a lecture at the Association for Art History (AAH) annual conference. Professor Khullar’s paper was titled Seeds of Change, Spectres of Death: Shweta Bhattad’s Faith (2016). The lecture was supported in part by a grant from the South