Past Events



CASI Lecture: Francesca Jensenius

Oct 24, 2017 at

 

Francesca Jensenius is Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

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CASI Visiting Scholar Lecture: M. R. Madhavan

Oct 20, 2017 at

 

M.R. Madhavan is President & Co-Founder of PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi. He will be delivering a lecture as The Center for the…



Bharatanatyam: Performance, History, Memory (Part 2)

Oct 12, 2017 at -

This two-day residency explores the vernacular histories of courtesan dance in South India through both lecture and live performances. Hari…



A Quarter Century of India's Transformations: CASI’s 25th Anniversary Symposium

Oct 12, 2017 at

Since its founding in 1992 within the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) by Professor Francine Frankel, Professor Emerita of Political Science and South Asian Regional Studies at Penn, CASI has continued to uphold…



Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves Its Trail) Film Screening

Oct 11, 2017 at

Filmmaker Iffat Fatima has been invited to screen her film Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves Its Trail). The film follows the trail of the thousands of young men of Kashmir who “have been disappeared” since 1990, the…



Bharatanatyam: Performance, History, Memory (Part 1)

Oct 11, 2017 at -

This two-day residency explores the vernacular histories of courtesan dance in South India through both lecture and live performances. Hari…



Documenting Nuclear Afterlives: A Conversation with Three Film Directors

Oct 4, 2017 at -

Adam Diller

Director, SAFSTOR (2016)

Fathima Nizaruddin

Director, Nuclear Hallucinations (2016)

Thorsten Trimpop

Director, Furusato…



Film Screening of Blockade: Nonviolent Resistance to Stop Genocide with Q&A

Sep 27, 2017 at -

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prayers not Protests: Christian Girlhood and an Ethic of Middle Class Life in Chennai

Sep 22, 2017 at -

Sneha Krishnan will examine the persistent antipathy to strike action and student-led protest at Christian educational institutions for women in the South Indian city of Chennai. The…



South Asia Colloquium Presents: Indira Viswanathan Peterson

Sep 20, 2017 at -

The Marathi and Sanskrit Press of Serfoji II: The Printed Book and Vernacular Modernity at the Tanjore Court

Indira Viswanathan Peterson…