South Asia Center co-organizes symposium on “Gender, Translation, and the Short Form in the Eurasian Periodical”

With the Middle East Center, the South Asia Center hosted an exciting interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Washington Seattle campus in October. The symposium, titled “Gender, Translation, and the Short Form in the Eurasian Periodical,” brought together scholars working across Urdu, Persian, Uzbek, Hindi and Tamil literary-periodical cultures in two days of stimulating panels, talks, and rich discussions. The event was generously co-sponsored by the South Asia Center, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures (MELC), including the Persian and Iranian Studies Program (PISP), the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Program, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Global Literary Studies (GLITS), and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This wide range of departments and centers that supported the symposium reflects the diverse regions and languages discussed by the scholars who participated in the symposium itself.