Philly Pigeon Tours
Philly Pigeon Tours explores how humans domesticated pigeons, brought them into our cities, and eventually came to view them as pests.
CASI Seminar - Environment, Cultural Heritage, and Ethnoarchaeology Among Kerala's Traditional Fishing Communities
Thomas F. Tartaron, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Communing with Others: Ecological Imagination in a Time of Neglect
Professor Anand Pandian
How to practice care for others elsewhere at a time when the needs of human and non-human kin are dismissed so readily? With stories from the United States and other places beyond, this talk will explore ways of resuscitating our collective capacity for ecological imagination.
EnviroLab Graduate Conference 2026: (Un)Doing Catastrophe
How do we rethink 'catastrophe' so as to find new ways of being and acting in the world(s) we inhabit? How can 'catastrophe' be untied from notions of calculability, prediction, and control that organize 'modern' institutions? How have communities, individuals, social movements, histories, and places remade life after catastrophe?
Find information on how to RSVP entering the link below.
Producing Deforestation: The Conservation of Mount Gorongosa, Central Mozambique
Professor Christine Schuetze
Africa Program Brown Bag Series
Africana Seminar Room 330-A, 3401 Walnut Street
The presentation explores the ontological politics of land that have emerged in the recent high-profile creation of a public-private partnership to “restore” and expand Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique. Christine Schuetze examines why the imposition of Western conservation models has produced deforestation rather than preventing it, and how territorial spirits and political legacies have figured in the unfolding and ongoing conflict between mountain residents and park actors.
Book Talk by Julia Elyachar
Robert S. Blank Forum, PCPSE, 2nd Floor, 133 South 36th St
Julia Elyachar, Professor of Anthropology and International studies at Princeton University is giving a talk on her new book On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo . She will be joined in conversation by Professor Deborah Thomas from the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
Coastal Worlds
A Conference by the Center for the Advanced Study of India
in partnership with EnviroLab, Penn Anthropology, and Penn Music
Organizers:
Professor Nikhil Anand (Interim Director, CASI)
Dr. Matt Barlow (TU Munich; CASI Climate Postdoc, 2024-25)
Dr. Sita Mamidipudi (CASI Climate Postdoc)
Location:
March 25: PCPSE Auditorium (Lower Level) 133 S. 36th Street
March 26-27: Penn Museum (Widener Lecture Hall) 3260 South Street and Penn Music (Lerner 101) 201 S. 34th Street
Workshop with Professor Lydia Gibson. Workshop with Raju Chalwadi and Rebecca Winkler
Session I: Workshop with Lydia Gibson, Assistant Professor of Race and Technology Georgetown University.
Session II: Workshop of PhD Chapter drafts with
Raju Chalwadi, CASI Visiting Scholar (Spring 2026), and
Rebecca Winkler, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UPenn
Location: Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
Workshop with Nityanand Jayaraman. Workshop with Adwaita Banerjee
Session I: Workshopping PhD Chapter Draft with Adwaita Banerjee PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, UPenn.
Session II: Workshop with Nityanand Jayaraman, CASI Residence Scholar (Spring 2026), Environmental justice advocate and journalist.
Location: Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
Workshopping AAA Paper Presentations
Location: Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street (Suite 230)
Talk by Matt Barlow
Postdoctoral Researcher in Sustainable Urban Environments, Technical University of Munich (TUM), School of Social Sciences and Technology, Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS); CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2024-25)
"Saving the Backwaters": Life, Depth, and the Opacity of Infrastructure in Kochi, India
Location: Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street (Suite 230)
Call for Papers EnviroLab Graduate Conference - (Un)Doing Catastrophe
EnviroLab’s Graduate Conference is a biennial event that gathers a community of graduate students and faculty working on environmental research projects. This year, the conference theme will be (Un)Doing catastrophe. See the conference abstract at the link below or apply here until December 15th.
Workshopping Grant Applications
Location: Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street (Suite 230)
Conversarion with Professor Marisa Solomon
Suggested reading:
Location: Penn Museum, Room 345.
Talk by Professor Lalitha Kamath
“Dushkal Temporalities: Reframing Time in Planning for the Climate Crisis”
A Talk by Lalitha Kamath, Professor, Centre for Urban Policy & Governance, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; CASI Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 12:00
Location: 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
Talk by Professor Juanita Sundberg
"Listening to Sargassum beyond the Sargasso Sea: Multispecies Storytelling and Seaweed Blooms in the Mexican Caribbean.”
Location: Blank Forum, PCPSE, 133 36th Street, Philadelphia
Talk by Dr. Megnaa Mehtta
Retreat or Remain? Understanding Notions of Risk, a “Full Life” and a “Slow Death” from the Sundarbans Coastlines.
Workshopping Grant Applications with Vivian, Nippun, and Clara
Location: Perry World House, Classroom 108
Book Talk: Lisa Yin Han, Pitzer College
Location: Room 500, Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street
