Upcoming 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…
Civic Learning and Urban Problem Solving in Risky Times: A Youth Perspective
CASI Seminar - In partnership with Penn IUR & 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
Youth have been seen as vital to delivering India’s demographic dividend, but today, face a compounding crisis of rising unemployment, climate risk and democratic decline. India’s cities, far from being spaces of emancipation for caste- and gender-marginalized youth, exacerbate…
Transferable Expertise: Sir M. Visvesvaraya’s Career as Engineer-Turned-Economist in Late-Colonial India
CASI Seminar - In partnership with History and Sociology of Science & Dept of South Asia Studies
A Virtual Seminar (9:00am EST | 7:30pm IST)
Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) was one of the most prominent engineers in late-colonial India, becoming the face of iconic irrigation projects, industrial enterprises, and technical institutions. But he is arguably best known as an evangelist for industrialization and economic…
The Future-Magic of Ancient Śāstraic Science: a Dharmic TESCREAL?
This talk examines the teleological narratives of scientific progress that persist in both European and Indian historiographies of science, from the Ancient Alexandrian myth of “pure rational inquiry” supposedly devoid of religion, to what Banu Subramaniam terms the "archaic…
Innocence and the Encounter: Carceral Ecstasy and the Course of Law in 21st Century India
CASI Seminar - In partnership with the Dept of Anthropology & 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
Naisargi N. Davé is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Davé is the author of two award-winning books, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (2023) and Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (2012), both from Duke…
