Past Events



Language Workshop: Tools to Engage All Language Learners: Open Educational Resources and Authentic Materials for Language Learning

Apr 1, 2016 at -

The South Asia Center invites language instructors at Penn to participate in a daylong workshop led by Dr. Laura L. Franklin, Professor of French and Portuguese, Northern Virginia Community College…



Lecture Demonstration on Mohini Attam Dance by Priyadarshini Ghosh

Mar 31, 2016 at -


The University of Pennsylvania’s

South Asia Center and Usiloquy Dance Designs Present

A Mohini Attam workshop by



South Asia Colloquium Presents: Anand Yang

Mar 30, 2016 at

Subaltern Speak: Gadadhar Singh's China 'Travelogue' of 1900-1901

Anand Yang



History of Emotions Lecture: Modernity, Discipline and Emotions

Mar 29, 2016 at

Modernity, Discipline and Emotions*

Margrit Pernau

Senior…



South Asia Studies Occasional Lecture: Ashok Aklujkar

Mar 24, 2016 at

The Department of South Asia Studies Presents 

Why Asoka (and Therefore the Buddha) Should be Older Than we Take Him (/Them) to Be

Ashok Akjujkar, Professor Emeritus



Penn Humanities Forum Presents: Wendy Doniger

Mar 23, 2016 at

The Penn Humanties Forum Presents

Sex and Jewelry in Cross-Cultural Mythology  

Wendy Doniger

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions



South Asia Colloquium Presents: Robert Goldman

Mar 23, 2016 at

A Clouded Mirror: The Uttarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaa as a Treatise on Kingship



History of Emotions Lecture: Kanpur 1913: Feeling Passionately for the House of God

Mar 22, 2016 at

Kanpur 1913: Feeling Passionately for the House of God*

Margrit Pernau

Senior Researcher…



SAST Department Presents: Women at the Margins: Gender and Religious Anxieties in the Sanskrit Epic

Mar 22, 2016 at

"Women at the Margins: Gender and Religious Anxieties in the Sanskrit Epic"

Sally J. Sutherland Goldman…



Global Distinguished Lecture 2016: Anemona Hartocollis of the New York Times

Mar 21, 2016 at

Global Distinguished Lecture: Lessons from the Great Syrian Migration

Presenter: Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times