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    The South Asia Center provides professional development opportunties to K-12 teachers, our Affilaited Faculty, and their classrooms.

  • Student Opportunities

    The South Asia Center offers student travel opportunities through our C.U. In India course series and Summer Research Internships across 5 countries.

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Penn's South Asia Center, in conjunction with the Center for the Advanced Study of India and the Department of South Asia Studies, has kept the University of Pennsylvania at the leading edge of scholarship relating to South Asia.

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Upcoming Events



Making Books in South Asia

Penn Department of History
Mar 24, 2023 at - | Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th floor | Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Join us for roundtables with artists and writers celebrating the publication of Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South…



The Last 300 Copies of the Book on the Way to Being Pulped

A workshop w/ Parismita Singh and Bakirathi Mani
Mar 30, 2023 at - | White Room
Morgan/Weitzman

An interactive workshop for a book in search of characters and incidents with Parismita Singh moderated by Bakirathi Mani, Professor of English, Swarthmore College



Do Not Draw Me

Making Art in India's Northeast
Apr 4, 2023 at - | Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Parismita Singh in conversation with Karen Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania, on feminist art and cultural practice.

South Asia at Penn
Center for the Advanced Study of India

Founded in 1992, the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania is the first research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India. A national resource, it fills an urgent need for objective knowledge of India's politics and society, rapidly changing economy, and transformation as both an ancient civilization and major contemporary power.
Department of South Asia Studies

The study of South Asia at Penn has a tradition stretching back over a hundred years. The department has trained generations of leaders in the field and remains one of the most distinguished places to study South Asia in the United States. Today the South Asia Studies Department is a close-knit community of interdisciplinary scholars that combines expertise in the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures of South Asia.