Past Events
Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states: confronting local and Dutch perspectives
This talk discusses court politics in several successor states of the south Indian Vijayanagara empire, which flourished between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The central question is whether these royal courts should be seen as static, harmonious, and hierarchic…
Tackling Air Pollution in South Asia
CASI Seminar - In partnership with the Dept of Political Science, PennClimate & Dept of South Asia Studies
Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street (Suite 230)
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215
Teevrat Garg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on decarbonization, energy transitions, air quality, and climate adaptation. His work combines rigorous empirical…
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
CASI Seminar - A CASI Fall 2026 Book Talk in partnership with the Dept of South Asia Studies & Penn Libraries
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
BOOK SALE (Lower Level): 11:45am
BOOK TALK (Auditorium, Lower Level): 12:00pm
BOOK SIGNING & LUNCH (CASI, Suite 230): 1:15pm
Joined in conversation with: Sara Kazmi (Dept of English, Penn) and Sudev Sheth (The Lauder Institute) Introduction by CASI Director Gareth Nellis A book sale and signing will take place at the conclusion of the talk. Light lunch will be served Sam Dalrymple is a Delhi-raised…
ANUJA: The Hidden Life of Labor
A Screening & Discussion
Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Socio-Sonic Histories of Modern South India
Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
This symposium examines sound and music in modern South India as contested terrain, where forms of cultural nationalism and shifting practices of inclusion and exclusion that emerged from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries have determined whose voices and musical practices…
