Past Events

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

Culturefest! Holi

Hosted by Penn Museum in conjunction with Three Aksha Dance Company

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