{"id":6931,"date":"2020-01-28T21:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2020-01-28T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:13:41","slug":"mohai-hosts-panel-discussion-on-south-asian-immigrants-in-the-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/mohai-hosts-panel-discussion-on-south-asian-immigrants-in-the-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"MOHAI Hosts Panel Discussion on South Asian Immigrants in the Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, January 22, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mohai.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of History and Industry<\/a> (MOHAI), with the support of the South Asia Center, hosted the panel discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/mohai.org\/event\/beyond-borders-south-asian-immigrants-and-the-northwest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond Borders: South Asian Immigrants and the Northwest<\/a>. Held in conjunction with the Museum&#8217;s exhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/mohai.org\/exhibits\/beyond-bollywood-indian-americans-shape-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation<\/a>, the panel brought together local leaders in South Asian scholarship and community affairs to examine the political, cultural and historical impacts of the South Asian diaspora on our region.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit co-curator Amy Bhatt, who received her PhD in Gender, Women &amp; Sexuality Studies from UW in 2011, moderated the panel, which featured Rita Meher (founder and Executive Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/tasveerseattle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tasveer<\/a>), Bidisha Biswas (Professor of Political Science, Western Washington University), and Anand Yang (Professor of History and International Studies, University of Washington).<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a packed house in the atrium of MOHAI&#8217;s South Lake Union campus, the panelists sparked a lively discussion on multiple facets of the South Asian diaspora in the Pacific Northwest, spanning cultural and economic contributions, implications of shifting demographic patterns, and the community&#8217;s impact on politics and social movements, both in the US and in South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 600px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6935\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-1140x1099.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-1140x1099.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-768x741.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-1024x987.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-375x362.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2-750x723.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/MOHAI-South-Asia-Panel-2.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Asia Center Managing Director Nick Gottschall introduces the panel (left to right): Amy Bhatt, Bidisha Biswas, Rita Meher, and Anand Yang.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s exhibit Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation, the panel brought together local leaders in South Asian scholarship<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/mohai-hosts-panel-discussion-on-south-asian-immigrants-in-the-northwest\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":6932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MOHAI Hosts Panel Discussion on South Asian Immigrants in the Northwest - South Asia Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/mohai-hosts-panel-discussion-on-south-asian-immigrants-in-the-northwest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MOHAI Hosts Panel Discussion on South Asian Immigrants in the Northwest - South Asia Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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