CASI's 30th Anniversary Symposium
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Penn Carey Law School
Media Coverage:
India at 75, CASI at 30
Kristina García, Penn Today, October, 19, 2022
Co-hosted by Penn Carey Law School
Made possible by the generous support of:
CASI’s Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series and the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Vishal Mahadevia and the Warburg Pincus Foundation, CASI International Advisory Board, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, South Asia Center, and the School of Arts and Sciences
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
1:30-1:35 p.m.
WELCOME
Tariq Thachil (CASI Director; Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Contemporary India
Professor of Political Science, Penn)
Special Recorded Message (View Video): President Elizabeth Magill (President, University of Pennsylvania)
1:35-2:55 p.m.
PANEL I: INDIA'S ECONOMY, TRENDS, AND PROSPECTS
Arvind Subramanian (Former Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, 2014-18; Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington D.C.)
Prachi Mishra (Chief of the Systemic Issues Division, Research Department, IMF; Former Specialist Adviser & Head of the Strategic Research Unit, Reserve Bank of India; Former Senior Economist in the Ministry of Finance, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Government of India)
Discussant:
Viral Acharya (C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business; Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, 2017-19)
Chair:
Vishal Mahadevia (Managing Director and Head of India, Warburg Pincus)
BREAK: 2:55-3:05 p.m.
3:05-4:25 p.m.
PANEL II: INDIA'S DOMESTIC POLITICS
Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Former Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University; President, Centre for Policy Research; Visiting Research Scholar, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching, University Center for Human Values, Princeton)
Niraja Gopal Jayal (Avantha Chair, King’s India Institute, King’s College London)
Discussant:
Steven I. Wilkinson (Vice Provost of Global Affairs; Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; and Henry R. Luce Director, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University)
Chair:
Mukulika Banerjee (Associate Professor, Social Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science)
BREAK: 4:25-4:40 p.m.
4:40-6:00 p.m.
PANEL III: INDIA IN THE WORLD
Shivshankar Menon (Former Foreign Secretary, Ambassador to Israel, Sri Lanka, China, and Pakistan)
Manjari Chatterjee-Miller (Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University - on leave)
Discussant:
Ashley J. Tellis (Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs & Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Chair:
Alyssa Ayres (Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University)
RECEPTION
The Great Hall
Silverman Building
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Remarks by Dean Steven J. Fluharty (Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, SAS, University of Pennsylvania)