On Thursday, June 2, 2022, Dr. Meeta Pradhan of the Institute for Social and Environmental Research–Nepal and Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies delivered a lecture on her experience with the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion approach, which is a unique product of Nepal aimed at addressing the multi-dimensional forms of exclusion and poverty in Nepal. Her talk addressed

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Emeritus Paul Brass, whose contributions to the Jackson School of International Studies and Political Science department have been leaving indelible marks since he began teaching at UW in 1965. His obituary can be found here. As fellow UW Professor Emeritus Frank Conlon stated in his

On Friday, May 20, 2022, The South Asia Center hosted a Graduate Student Workshop. The workshop featured presentations from current UW graduate students on a range of topics and disciplines in South Asia Studies. Eight students presented their work to and received valuable feedback from a group of faculty, students, and staff associated with the

On Thursday, May 12, 2022, Professor Uzma Rizvi delivered a lecture on her most recent archeological research at the site of MohenjoDaro. As a site, MohenjoDaro has been studied for over a century, and yet there is a lot to still learn of the ancient city. In her lecture she discussed how her research utilizes

Recently, South Asia Center graduate assistant Karishma Manglani interviewed Sangram Majumdar, who joined the University of Washington in 2021 as an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing. Prior to this, Professor Majumdar taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art for eighteen years. Read on to learn more about Professor Majumdar’s artistic influences growing up in Kolkata,

On Friday April 22nd, 2022, the South Asia Center convened its first in-person event in over two years: a discussion with Shobha Rao, author of An Unrestored Woman and the novel Girls Burn Brighter, facilitated by UW-Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Associate Teaching Professor Alka Kurian. The discussion centered on themes of gender politics in South Asia and

On Thursday, March 10th, 2022, Debashree Mukherjee presented a lecture on research from her new book, Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (Columbia University Press, 2020). Her work focuses on the origins of Bombay Cinema in the 1930s, a period of great uncertainty in the life of the city, much different than the brash commercial

South Asia Center graduate student assistant Karishma Manglani recently spoke with JSIS South Asia Studies MA alum Rachel Heilman, a social studies teacher at Issaquah High School. With the support of the South Asia Center’s National Resource Center grant and guidance from Sunila Kale (Associate Professor of International Studies), Heilman designed a new high school

South Asia Center graduate student assistant Shelby House recently spoke with alumna Thilini Kahandawaarachchi, JSIS South Asia Studies MA (2015). A former lawyer and Fulbright student at UW, Kahandawaarachchi now works as a Senior Political Adviser at the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read more about her writing, research, and career below. SH: What led

The South Asia Center is saddened to announce that Emeritus Professor Karl Potter has passed away. The Department of Philosophy shared the following remembrance: Karl joined the Department of Philosophy and the Far Eastern and Russian Institute in 1970, then associated with South Asian Studies. He served as chair of the department from 1986-90 and