Sponsored by MESAAS and the South Asia Institute, the South Asia Graduate Students Forum (SAGSF) gives graduate students working on South Asian topics in any department the opportunity to present their work in front of faculty and fellow students as well as interested members of the public.

The typical format of each meeting is a twenty-to-thirty minute presentation, followed by twenty to thirty minutes of questions and discussion, and then a reception for an hour. Papers are not circulated beforehand and the presenters determine how formal their presentations will be.

The forum meets several times a semester from 4:00 pm to 6 pm.