Center for the Advanced Study of India

Center for the Advanced Study of India
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Since its founding in 1992 within the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for the Advanced Study (CASI) has continued to uphold Penn's global reputation as a leading U.S. institution of research in South Asian studies and scholarship on India. CASI's goals are to engage in policy-relevant research focused on the challenges facing contemporary India; to nurture students' interest in contemporary India through interactions with Visiting Scholars and opportunities to work and conduct research in India; and to act as a public forum on contemporary India by hosting seminars, workshops, and conferences, as well as through our online scholarly publication, India in Transition.

Episodes

  1. Penn in India: Faculty Speaker Series featuring Tariq Thachil

    07/21/2020

    Penn in India: Faculty Speaker Series featuring Tariq Thachil

    A Virtual Discussion about Urban Migrants in India with new CASI Director Tariq Thachil July 15, 2020 In partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), Penn Global, and Penn Alumni A wide-ranging conversation with Tariq Thachil, who Penn welcomed on July 1, 2020 as the new Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), Associate Professor of Political Science at Penn, and the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India. During this one-hour virtual talk, Professor Thachil discusses his work and research on the politics of urban migrants in India, and sheds light on his vision for the future of CASI. The dialogue and Q&A was moderated by Penn Trustee Ramanan Raghavendran, ENG'89, W'89, LPS'15 (Managing Partner, Amasia). This event is the first of the new Penn in India: Faculty Speaker Series and is made possible in partnership with the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI).

    58 min
  2. 2020 Podcast with Farzana Afridi

    07/20/2020

    2020 Podcast with Farzana Afridi

    "A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption" featuring Farzana Afridi (Associate Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute) in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

    49 min
  3. 2020 Podcast with Chinmay Tumbe

    07/07/2020

    2020 Podcast with Chinmay Tumbe

    "India and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic" featuring Chinmay Tumbe (Assistant Professor, Economics Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad) in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

    26 min
  4. Spring 2020 Podcast with Rina Agarwala

    06/22/2020

    Spring 2020 Podcast with Rina Agarwala

    "Managing Migrants: Class and Emigration from India" featuring Rina Agarwala (Associate Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University) in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

    18 min
  5. Spring 2020 Podcast with Debjani Bhattacharyya

    06/09/2020

    Spring 2020 Podcast with Debjani Bhattacharyya

    "Urbanism at Water’s Edge: The Fluid Histories of Property in Calcutta," a book talk featuring Debjani Bhattacharyya (Assistant Professor of History, Drexel University) in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

    24 min
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Since its founding in 1992 within the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for the Advanced Study (CASI) has continued to uphold Penn's global reputation as a leading U.S. institution of research in South Asian studies and scholarship on India. CASI's goals are to engage in policy-relevant research focused on the challenges facing contemporary India; to nurture students' interest in contemporary India through interactions with Visiting Scholars and opportunities to work and conduct research in India; and to act as a public forum on contemporary India by hosting seminars, workshops, and conferences, as well as through our online scholarly publication, India in Transition.

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