Past Events

AIIMS New Delhi and the Beginnings of Indigenous Biomedical Modernity in India

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center, South Asia Studies Dept, Dept of History and Sociology of Science & Center for Global Health

Kiran Kumbhar, CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ugliness Book Launch

Moshtari Hilal: Artist, writer, and curator

Dushkal Temporalities: Reframing Time in Planning for the Climate Crisis

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center & Dept of Anthropology

Lalitha Kamath, Professor, Centre for Urban Policy & Governance, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; CASI Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar

"The Thrice Born": Global Academic Networks and the Rise of Indian Anthropology ca. 1930-1970

A SAST Colloquium, co-sponsored by SAC, CASI, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies

Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, University of Manchester

Getting on the Grid: A Field Experiment on Bottom-Up Political Pressure and Access to Essential Public Services

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center, PDRI-DevLab & Political Science Dept

Nikhar Gaikwad, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Wolf Humanities Keywords Symposium

Co-sponsored by SAC

Retreat or Remain? Understanding Notions of Risk, a “Full Life” and a “Slow Death” from the Sundarbans Coastlines

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center, South Asia Studies Dept, EnviroLab & Environmental Innovations Initiative

Megnaa Mehtta, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Anthropology, Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London

Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

A SAST Colloquium, co-sponsored by SAC, CASI, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, University of Wisonsin-Madison

The Birth of Indian Liberalism

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center & Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy

Rahul Sagar, Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science, New York University Abu Dhabi

Mock Shaadi

Hosted by the Penn Pakistan Society