Past Events
Priya Mukherjee & Baijayanti Chatterjee: Joint Seminar with CASI Fall Visiting Scholars
CASI Seminar - In partnership with the Dept of Political Science, Dept of Earth & Environmental Science, PennClimate & 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
"Power of the State: Police Careers, Political Turnover, and Public Order in India" Priya Mukherjee More info coming soon! "Ecology, Vulnerability and Livelihoods: Riverine Chars as Symbols of Destabilization in Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Kalindi & Abu Ishaque’s Padmar"…
Modernity and the Marathi Theatre of the late Nineteenth Century
The talk explores the relationship between modernity and Theatre in the 19th Century Bombay Presidency. It argues that the physical settings, subject matter and the emotive aspects of Marathi theatre were deeply influenced by modern technology and modern ways of life. Based on a…
On the Moral Theory of Harm: Caste and the Critique of Charity in Travancore
Scholars of colonial South Asia have shown that charity has a function of power: it constructs its own subject, i.e., rightful recipients, and regulates indigenous forms of giving, such as dana, into a language legible to colonial political economy. However, this account has not…
Amrita Sengupta & Abhijit Ekbote: Joint Seminar with CASI Fall Visiting Scholars
CASI Seminar - In partnership with Penn LDI, Dept of Earth & Environmental Science, PennClimate & 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
"Rethinking Approaches to Data Use for AI in Healthcare" Amrita Sengupta The rapid integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare settings raises questions about the adequacy of existing data protection frameworks, particularly the reliance on informed consent as the…
Touching Care: Gandhi and the Art of Healing the Leprous Body
What does a haptic history of the most famous Indian of the twentieth century reveal—and occlude? I explore this question by turning to a set of under-analyzed photographs which show M. K. Gandhi, late in his own life, offering “touching” care to an elderly Brahmin follower…
