History of Punishment in India
This webinar will discuss findings from four years of archival research into the history of punishment in India, spanning the colonial and post-colonial periods.
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Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 02:00pm, ET
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S153, CGIS South
Pradeep Chhibber is the Professor and Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies at University of California, Berkely. Chhibber studies the politics of India, political parties and party systems. His recent research is on the influence of ideology on party system change, religion and politics, elections and parties, and the politics of development in India.
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Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 05:30pm, ET
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Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South (Concourse), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
This lecture is a keynote event of the workshop on ‘Adapting to Climate Change in South Asia and West Africa’ organized by the Harvard Climate Research Clusters on the Gulf of Guinea (Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea) and South Asia (Climate Adaptation in South Asia), in collaboration with the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Salata Institute at Harvard University.
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Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 05:30pm, ET
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Carpenter Center Theater (24 Quincy Street)
Released in 2017 by Afghanistan’s Roya Sadat, one of the country’s leading female directors, “A Letter to the President” explores the difficulty Afghan women face when pursuing justice, and is a testament to the country’s once-flourishing cinema scene in the period between Taliban rule.
More InfoProf. Ahuja will take the audience through the astounding quality of the sculpture at Phanigiri and focus on one piece in particular: a stele that shows Siddhartha sacrificing his turban, the mark of his inheritance.
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Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET
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CGIS South S153
Evidence on how exposure to early childhood education (ECE) has a sustained effect on Human Capital is inconclusive, particularly in low and middle income countries. This study examines two specific issues in the context of India: (a) to analyse the regional and socioeconomic inequalities in access to and investment in early childhood education and how a household’s socioeconomic position explains such inequalities, (b) to estimate the effect of exposure to early childhood education on children’s later learning outcomes, and how the type and duration of such exposure impact differently.
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Wed, Nov 1, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm, ET
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CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Kenneth I. Juster, AB ’76, MPP ’79, JD ’79, served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He will discuss how China’s actions are reshaping India’s relationship with the United States and affecting the development of the Quad.
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Tue, Oct 31, 2023
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Webinar
The webinar aims to focus on the global south conceptualisations of borderlands in the particular case of South Asia post the partition of 1947. The fragmented history of the South Asian borderlands is a complex yet intriguing space for exploration.
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Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, Room S153
For a period of 1800 years from 600 BCE to 1200 CE, India dominated global higher education, with at least seven major centers – Taxila, Nalanda, Valabhi, Vikramshila, Odantapuri, Jagaddala, and Somapura, spanning the breadth of the Indian […]
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Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:15pm, ET
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WCC1010, Harvard Law School
Please join the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession for a lecture by Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, an eminent jurist, politician, visible media personality, well-known columnist, author, thinker, and commentator. Dr. Singhvi is a Member of India’s Parliament (third-term), the senior most National Spokesperson of the Congress Party and the youngest designated Senior Advocate […]
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