Center for the Advanced Study of India

Center for the Advanced Study of India

By Center for the Advanced Study of IndiaNews
Download on the App Store

Center for the Advanced Study of India episodes

  • 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).
    59 min
  • 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)
    50 min
  • 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)
    27 min
  • 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)
    19 min
  • 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)
    25 min
  • Spring 2020 Podcast with Roshan Kishore
    "India’s Political Economy After COVID-19" featuring Roshan Kishore (Data & Political Economy Editor, Hindustan Times; CASI Spring 2020 Visiting Fellow)
    in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
    37 min
  • Spring 2020 Podcast with Kaivan Munshi
    "Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap, and Metabolic Disease" featuring Kaivan Munshi (Professor of Economics, Yale University)
    in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Visiting Dissertation Fellow)
    43 min
  • Spring 2020 Podcast with Sam Asher
    "Intergenerational Mobility in India" featuring Sam Asher (Assistant Professor of International Economics, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University)
    in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Visiting Dissertation Fellow)
    30 min
  • Fall 2019 Podcast with Anit Mukherjee
    "The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India," a book discussion featuring Author Anit Mukherjee (Assistant Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University; CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar)
    in conversation with Gautam Nair (CASI Visiting Dissertation Fellow)
    17 min

About Center for the Advanced Study of India

From the publisher's feed

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…