Past Events

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-Warych, Harini Kumar, Dennis McGilvray, Ashir Mohamed, Afsar Mohammad, Shrinidhi Narasimhan, Arun Rasiah, Davesh Soneji, Torsten Tschacher, Shobhana Xavier

Rethinking Social Safety Nets in a Changing Society: Evidence from India Human Development Survey

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

"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

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

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

Postcolonial Dreams

A conference to honor professors Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba

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

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 Complex World of 21st Century Hindustani Music: Perspectives of an Insider-Outsider

Spring 2025 CASI Saluja Global Fellow Lecture, cosponsored by SAC, SAST, and Penn Music

Shubha Mudgal, Classical Indian Vocalist

Nawruz (Nowruz) Celebration

Persian and Central Asian celebration of the Spring Equinox