Past Events
Socio-Sonic Histories of Modern South India
Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
This symposium examines sound and music in modern South India as contested terrain, where forms of cultural nationalism and shifting practices of inclusion and exclusion that emerged from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries have determined whose voices and musical practices…
We, The People of India: Decoding a Nation’s Symbols
CASI Seminar - A CASI Book Talk in partnership with Penn Music
Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
Robert S. Blank Forum (2nd Floor)
133 South 36th Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215
T.M.Krishna is one of the pre-eminent vocalists in the rigorous Karnatik tradition of India's classical music. As a public intellectual, Krishna also speaks and writes about issues affecting the human condition and about matters cultural. Having authored two award-winning books…
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…
