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The South Asia Center
The South Asia Center lists events of educational value related to South Asia throughout the Pacific Northwest. We endeavor to include full information about timing, presenters, costs if any, and location, but it is always best to check listed web sites for the latest information.
This Week
Click on the title for more details.- RECLAIMING OUR COMMONS: Protecting our Land, Water, Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Thu May 23, 2013 - Current Challenges in Global Mental Health: An Interactive Discussion
Fri May 24, 2013 - A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
Tue May 28, 2013
All Events
May 2013
Women and Democratic Movements in India: Changing Dynamics, Altered Perspectives
Sunday May 19, 2013
5:00 - 7:00 pm.
Seattle Town Hall (Downstairs) (1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101)
In the context of widespread resistance movements in India today, internationally known feminist scholar, human-rights activist, and author Ilina Sen analyzes the articulation of women’s voices within the movements and helps clarify the issues, debates, and relationships between these voices and other social movements.
With her husband, human-rights activist Binayak Sen (who gained fame after being convicted of sedition, jailed, and freed on bail), Sen has worked for more than three decades among some of India’s most impoverished and socially stigmatized populations and manages the NGO Rupantar. Ilina She teaches women’s studies at the Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University in Wardha, Maharashtra.
For more information & tickets click here.
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RECLAIMING OUR COMMONS: Protecting our Land, Water, Biodiversity & Livelihoods
Thursday May 23, 2013
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Microsoft 50 / 3015 (4001 156th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052)
Bhargavi Rao coordinates a wide variety of campaign initiatives, research, and educational projects at the Environment Support Group (ESG).
K.R. Mallesha has a background in Social Sciences and over a decades experience working with NGOs.
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Current Challenges in Global Mental Health: An Interactive Discussion
Friday May 24, 2013
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Ethnic Cultural Center, Unity Ballroom Suite
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A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
Tuesday May 28, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum
Following William Dalrymple writing about Afghanistan in the 19th century, is this visit by Afghan writer Qais Akbar Oman, with an extraordinary memoir of being from a country so riven with conflict – A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story. See www.seattleartmuseum.org for admission information.
This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia."
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Pakistan Nuclear Program--In Conversation with Brigadier General Feroz Khan
Friday May 31, 2013
5:00 PM
Thomson Hall 101, UW Campus, Seattle
POSTPONED-TBA
Brigadier General Feroz Khan will talk about Pakistan's Nuclear Program, its history, its implications on Pakistan and wider regional and international politics, as he introduces his book "Eating Grass:The Making of the Pakistani Bomb." The book tells the compelling story of how and why Pakistan's government, scientists, and military, persevered in the face of a wide array of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons.
Feroz Khan is a lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. He served with the Pakistani Army for 30 years, most recently as Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, within the Strategic Plans Division, Joint Services Headquarters, and has represented 
Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral arms control negotiations. General Khan has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Studies and Cooperation, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory. He has also taught as visiting faculty at the Department of the Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
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June 2013
Cultural Impacts of the Death of Kingship, Identity Politics and Current Political Situation in Nepal
Monday June 3, 2013
3:30 to 5:00 p.m
THO 317
A discussion on the impact of the death of kingship on culture, and its relation with identity politics, janajati movement including the current political situation in Nepal.
Bal Gopal Shrestha is research associate at the School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. As research fellow at the University of Oxford (2009-2012) he carried out a research among the Nepalese diaspora in the UK and in Belgium. Dr. Shrestha made the award-winning ethnographic documentary Sacrifice of Serpents: The Festival of Indrayani, Kathmandu 1992/94 (Leiden, 1997) together with the late Van den Hoek and Dirk J. Nijland. He has published widely on Nepalese religious rituals, Hinduism, Buddhism, ethnic nationalism, the Maoist movement, and political development in Nepal.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Tuesday June 4, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle
Special visit by Khaled Hosseini, here with his first novel in six years, And the Mountains Echoed. All over the world – Afghanistan, San Francisco, Greece, Paris – inheritances are lost and found in this rich, multigenerational family tale. Details on tickets/entry to come. See www.elliottbaybook.com soon.
This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia."
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On Sal Maj Lane-Book Reading
Thursday June 6, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Elliot Bay Books, 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle WA 98122
Early word here, too, on a much-anticipated first Seattle visit by Sri Lanka-born writer Ru Freeman with her assured, moving novel of Sri Lanka approaching civil war, On Sal Mal Lane.
This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia"
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| South Asia Center | |
| University of Washington | |
| 303 Thomson Hall | |
| Box 353650 | |
| Seattle, WA 98195 | |
| (206) 543-4800 phone | |
| (206) 685-0668 fax | |
| ► | sascuw@u.washington.edu |
| Anand Yang, Director |
| Keith Snodgrass, Associate Director |
| Molly Wilskie-Kala, Program Coordinator |
| Nabeeha Chaudhary, Research Assistant |
| Robyn Davis, FLAS Coordinator | |
| 206-616-8679 | |
| ► | rldavis@uw.edu |
| Cabeiri Robinson, Graduate Program Coordinator |