The South Asia Center offers a diverse array of public events, including lectures, cultural programs, film festivals, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops. All events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise.
Events
Film Screening: Buhay Khulay Rakhi (Let the Doors Stay Open)
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center, Wolf Humanities Center, and The Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies
Ali Usman Qasmi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Nida Mehboob, photographer and filmmaker based in Lahore, Pakistan
The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream
CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center & PDRI-DevLab
Gaurav Khanna, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Postcolonial Dreams
A conference to honor professors Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba
Science and State-Formation in Twentieth Century India
CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center, South Asia Studies Dept & Dept of History and Sociology of Science
Jahnavi Phalkey, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru; CASI Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar
Rethinking Archives on Afghanistan
(Hybrid!) Hosted by the Center for Global Collections
Alem Afzalli, Graphic Designer, Arzoo Sidiqi, Perso-Arabic Metadata Fellow, Penn Libraries , Shamayel Shalizi, Designer and Artist, Ahmad Rashid Salim, Scholar & Author UC Berkeley, Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Wolf Humanities Center
"Tribal" Conservation in Central India: Kanha National Park & Verrier Elwin's "Sort of National Park for the Gond and Baiga" Adivasis
A SAST Colloquium, co-sponsored by SAC, CASI, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies
Ezra Rashkow, Monclair State University
Gender Transformation in 21st Century India
CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center & Dept of Sociology
Sonalde Desai, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Islam in the Tamil World
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center, South Asian Studies Department, Department of Religious Studies, and the Vice Provost for Research
Kombai Anwar, Aditya Harchand, Ilona Kędzia, Harini Kumar, Dennis McGilvray, Ashir Mohamed, Afsar Mohammad, Shrinidhi Narasimhan, Arun Rasiah, Davesh Soneji, Torsten Tschacher, Shobhana Xavier
Apr 18, 2025 - Apr 19, 2025 at -
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