We’re excited to welcome Rabbia, a second-year undergraduate student to the South Asia Center team! 🎉 Have questions, ideas, or want to get involved? She’s happy to connect! Visit our website for more details.

Mark your calendars for October 15th! We’re excited to host the launch of Dalit Studies, Volume Two: Dalit Journeys for Dignity – Religion, Freedom, and Caste. Join us for an afternoon of learning and community, featuring insights from two of the editors! All are welcome!! 📚🎙️

Step into 19th-century India tomorrow (3:30–5 PM, Cohen 204) with Professor Qasim Zaman from Princeton University for a rare chance to hear one of the leading scholars on law, religion, and society! All are welcome!

Join us TOMORROW at 12 PM for the opening event of the CASI Fall 2025 Seminar Series! Will Glover from the University of Michigan will present "A Stealth Urban History from the Countryside: Punjab's Early-Twentieth-Century Canal Colonies as Urban Space." All are welcome!!

The CASI Seminar Series returns this fall with a powerful lineup of speakers exploring history, caste, politics, labor, and the environment in South Asia. Join us on the following dates at noon for critical conversations that bring new perspectives to the study of the region!

The South Asia Center is hiring a student worker! 🎉 💰 $15/hour, up to 15 hours a week 📚 Must be a UPenn student 🌏 Interest in South Asia 📱 Social media/marketing experience a plus Flexible hours & a chance to be part of our community. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172694

Tomorrow: Prof. Dr. Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social (Univ. of Heidelberg) begins 5-part lecture series. 🎙️ Lecture 1: Sound and Mass Mobilisation before the Microphone, 1921–1927 🗓 Aug 27, 4:30 PM 📍 Cohen Hall 402 | 249 South 36th Street

🌱 From language study to life-saving action. FLAS Fellow, Jahin Rahman, launches Health Navigation Project in Bangladesh—tackling climate-driven health crises through screenings, education, and clean water access. www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu/news/2025/06... #FLAS #PublicHealth #ClimateAction

Shout-out to the 24–25 FLAS Fellows as their fellowship comes to a close! They took four courses in South Asian languages and area studies this year 🎓🌍 Big congrats to our graduating fellows: Suhitha, Nadia, Ian, and Adil 💐 Funded by @usedgov.bsky.social #FLAS #LanguageLearning #SouthAsia

Advanced registration is required by May 15th! The keynote is supported by the Vice Provost for Research and the @rarebookschool.bsky.social, Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

This event marks the inaugural session of the Maaya Movement Institute’s Maaya Meditations speaker series! Focusing on Bangladesh, this panel explores the complex human rights, governance, and political challenges following the country’s recent sociopolitical upheavals and shifting power dynamics.

Register for the Islam in the Tamil World conference this weekend while spaces last. Check out our conference schedule—you won't want to miss this! www.eventbrite.com/e/islam-in-t...

Hybrid Event "Rethinking Archives on Afghanistan" will be starting shortly! Register Here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14023969

Please join us for a special screening of Buhay Khulay Rakhi (Let the Doors Stay Open) and a post-screening discussion with Nida Mehboob, the filmmaker, and Ali Usman Qasmi, the film producer, moderated by Penn Professor Jamal J. Elias. When? April 1, 2025, 4:30-6:00 PM Where? Rainey Auditorium

This two-day workshop explores the modern textual, visual, material, and somatic traditions of Muslim communities in the Tamil world, a linguistic sphere of shared social, cultural, and intellectual practices stretching from Southeast Asia to South Africa. www.eventbrite.com/e/islam-in-t...

Please join us to celebrate the distinguished careers of Professors Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba on the occasion of their dual retirement from the University of Pennsylvania. We will start on April 4th at 10:30 AM in Arch 108 and have multiple panels till April 5th, 12:00 PM!

Celebrate the arrival of spring at CultureFest! Holi on March 15. Hosted by @pennmuseum.bsky.social and the Three Aksha Dance Company! Bring the whole family for a day filled with storytelling, colorful art-making, dynamic live music, and captivating dance performances.

Check out this conference happening on March 21-22 hosted by @penncinemamedia on the 'Financial Mediation of Quotidian Life'! The conference seeks to interrogate the so-called “financialization of everyday life” extending the focus beyond the usual Euro-American instances.

"The Thrice Born": Global Academic Networks and the Rise of Indian Anthropology ca. 1930-1970 A SAST Colloquium, co-sponsored by SAC, CASI, Africana Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, University of Manchester Feb 26, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Cohen Hall 402

In conjunction with the @wolfhumanities.bsky.social Center’s 2024–2025 Forum on Keywords, this interdisciplinary symposium engages mobile concepts and their genealogies, histories, structures of meaning, translations, and adaptations across time and space. Join us on Feb 21 in Van Pelt!

Check out this new article written by PhD student Nazar Khalid, Professors Emily Hannum and Jere Behrman, and Senior Lecturer Amrit Thapa about how more intensive and frequent flooding is affecting young students in India's rural north. omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/india-...

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY to FLAS fellowship!!! Want to increase your linguistic skills to compete in today’s global job market? Want to travel? Then this may be the perfect opportunity for you! Apply today! southasiacenter.upenn.edu/student-oppo...

Exciting news from Karnataka! SAC Director Dr. Mark Lycett & the @Penn team—Kathleen Morrison, Austin Chad Hill, Jennifer Feng, CS Ambily & Moriah McKenna—are teaming up with ASI Bengaluru to unlock the secrets of the Brahmagiri excavation. 🔎 Read more: t.co/wzQdgd2GhK