Events

Culturefest! Holi

Hosted by Penn Museum in conjunction with Three Aksha Dance Company

Caste before Race: Genealogies of Inequality in the Modern World

A SAST Colloquium, co-sponsored by SAC, CASI, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies

Chinnaiah Jangam, Carleton University

Automatic for the People? Labor, Machines, and Ecology in Modern India

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center, South Asia Studies Dept, Dept of History & Dept of History and Sociology of Science

Benjamin Siegel, Associate Department Chair; Associate Professor of History, Boston University

Financial Mediation of Quotidian Life

Penn Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Co-sponsored by SAC)

The Complex World of 21st Century Hindustani Music: Perspectives of an Insider-Outsider

Spring 2025 CASI Saluja Global Fellow Lecture, cosponsored by SAC, SAST, and Penn Music

Shubha Mudgal, Classical Indian Vocalist

Film Screening: Buhay Khulay Rakhi (Let the Doors Stay Open)

Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center, Wolf Humanities Center, and The Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies

Ali Usman Qasmi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Nida Mehboob, photographer and filmmaker based in Lahore, Pakistan

The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center & PDRI-DevLab

Gaurav Khanna, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Postcolonial Dreams

A conference to honor professors Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba

Science and State-Formation in Twentieth Century India

CASI seminar series in partnership with the South Asia Center, South Asia Studies Dept & Dept of History and Sociology of Science

Jahnavi Phalkey, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru; CASI Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar

"Tribal" Conservation in Central India: Kanha National Park & Verrier Elwin's "Sort of National Park for the Gond and Baiga" Adivasis

A SAST Colloquium, co-sponsored by SAC, CASI, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies

Ezra Rashkow, Monclair State University