This course examines current and past hot topics and texts (e.g., India and Pakistan’s shared history and wars, terrorism, Iraq War, Iran’s nuclear controversy, 1979 Iranian Revolution, the israeli and Palestinian conflict, poetry as the language of protest) that have shaped India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Instructor: Khodadad Kaviani Spring, 2016, SLN 20836, Saturdays 9:00-2:30

South Asia MA Alum Nick Gottschall recently worked with the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) to profile Jazz Musician Aakash Mittal as he studied and toured India as an AIIS fellow. See the video below: AIIS is currently accepting applications to the same Fellowship program Aakash Mittal participated in.

Professors Sunila S. Kale and Christian L. Novetzke have written an article on the intersection of Yoga and Politics, in the form of ‘political theology’, which has been published in The Wire. Professors Kale and Novetke are currently working on a book about this very topic, due out in 2018. Read the article here.

UW Art History Professor and South Asia Faculty member Sonal Khullar‘s book Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (California, 2015), was just awarded the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, given annually by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. Congratulations to Professor Khullar.

Apply now for fellowships for the 2016-2017 Academic Year and for Summer, 2016. Both graduate students and undergraduates are eligible for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships (details) (application); domestic and international graduate students are eligible for the Frank F. Conlon Fellowship (details) (application).

A two-day symposium on Human Rights and the Politics of Film Making is being hosted by the UW Jackson School’s South Asia Center in conjunction with Tasveer’s 2015 Seattle South Asian Film Festival feauturing notable film makers from South Asia. The symposium will examine issues of human rights and film making in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and

Loritta Ying Ping Chan BA, Economics & South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Originally from Hong Kong, Loritta will begin at UW in the fall to begin her MA in South Asia Studies, where she plans to study Hindi. Having approached development from an economic perspective as an undergraduate, she wants to dwell deeper into

Professor of South Asia Studies Cabeiri Robinson has spoken with the UW Simpson Center about her research on Humanitarian Jihadists for her book in progress, Fault Lines: Humanitarian Jihad, Humanitarian Business, and the Making of a Post-Conflict Tourist Industry in Northern Pakistan. In this video she discusses the change in mindsets among young Kashmiri militants in the

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington houses 1,800 costumes and textiles from the Indian subcontinent, representing 24 states in India and Pakistan. This forms an important resource for the study of the rich variety of woven, printed, dyed, and embroidered textile traditions in cotton and silk and the linguistic, ethnic, and caste

2015 South Asia MA alumna Jessica Bachman is studying Bengali in Calcutta this summer, and recently provided photographs for The Guardian on new public art highlighting the crisis “the missing girls in India” who are forced in prostitution. Each year in India tens of thousands of girls go missing in a country where an estimated 1.2