Past Events

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

Financial Mediation of Quotidian Life

Penn Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Co-sponsored by SAC)

Automatic for the People? Labor, Machines, and Ecology in Modern India

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

Benjamin Siegel, Associate Department Chair; Associate Professor of History, Boston University

Caste before Race: Genealogies of Inequality in the Modern World

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

Chinnaiah Jangam, Carleton University