Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Priya Mukherjee & Baijayanti Chatterjee: Joint Seminar with CASI Fall Visiting Scholars

CASI Seminar - In partnership with the Dept of Political Science, Dept of Earth & Environmental 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

"Power of the State: Police Careers, Political Turnover, and Public Order in India" Priya Mukherjee More info coming soon! "Ecology, Vulnerability and Livelihoods: Riverine Chars as Symbols of Destabilization in Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Kalindi & Abu Ishaque’s Padmar"…
CASI 10-08

We, The People of India: Decoding a Nation’s Symbols

CASI Seminar - A CASI Book Talk in partnership with Penn Music

Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
Robert S. Blank Forum (2nd Floor)
133 South 36th Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215

T.M.Krishna is one of the pre-eminent vocalists in the rigorous Karnatik tradition of India's classical music. As a public intellectual, Krishna also speaks and writes about issues affecting the human condition and about matters cultural. Having authored two award-winning books…
CASI 10-13

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…
T.M. Krishna event

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

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

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…
CASI 10-22

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…
CASI 11-5