Upcoming Events
Tackling Air Pollution in South Asia
CASI Seminar - In partnership with the Dept of Political 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
Teevrat Garg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on decarbonization, energy transitions, air quality, and climate adaptation. His work combines rigorous empirical…
Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states: confronting local and Dutch perspectives
This talk discusses court politics in several successor states of the south Indian Vijayanagara empire, which flourished between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The central question is whether these royal courts should be seen as static, harmonious, and hierarchic…
Civic Learning and Urban Problem Solving in Risky Times: A Youth Perspective
CASI Seminar - In partnership with Penn IUR & 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
Youth have been seen as vital to delivering India’s demographic dividend, but today, face a compounding crisis of rising unemployment, climate risk and democratic decline. India’s cities, far from being spaces of emancipation for caste- and gender-marginalized youth, exacerbate…
Penn Fall Hindi-Urdu Workshop
We are excited to announce the return of the annual Penn Hindi–Urdu workshop for Fall 2026! This year, the workshop will be held on Saturday, November 14th, in the Cherpack Lounge at Williams Hall. As always, participants in the workshop collectively read a set of texts available…
Transferable Expertise: Sir M. Visvesvaraya’s Career as Engineer-Turned-Economist in Late-Colonial India
CASI Seminar - In partnership with History and Sociology of Science & Dept of South Asia Studies
A Virtual Seminar (9:00am EST | 7:30pm IST)
Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) was one of the most prominent engineers in late-colonial India, becoming the face of iconic irrigation projects, industrial enterprises, and technical institutions. But he is arguably best known as an evangelist for industrialization and economic…
