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Wed, Nov 14, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
Anirban Adhya, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Lawrence Tech College of Architecture and Design Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design For the City of Kolkata and Bengalis, Durga Pujo is a festival of its own. The festival is rooted in a social-cultural phenomenon that transcends religious […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Beyond Sri Lanka’s War Against Terror: The Struggle for Sri Lanka’s Democracy Saliya Pieris, Attorney-at-Law, Chairman CFPS School of Law, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2012 Eisenhower Fellow Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School This talk will explain how developments in Sri Lanka, including the authoritarian executive Presidential Constitution in 1978, the war with the […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
Najam Ahmed Shah, Additional Secretary in Government of Punjab, served as the Director/CEO of the Food Directorate prior to coming to USA on Eisenhower Fellowships* last month. The Punjab Food Directorate is responsible for food security for 9 million people of Punjab and oversees the operations, finances, procurement, storage, and sale and export of millions of […]
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Thu, Nov 8, 2012 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Religion, Historiography, and the Emergence of Islamic Empire in India Blain H. Auer, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Western Michigan University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Amidst dramatic political and social changes, Delhi and its sultans stood in a new, […]
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1965 Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Vivek Bald is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. […]
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Thu, Nov 1, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Himalayan Glaciers, Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security Henry J. Vaux, Jr., Professor of Resource Economics, Emeritus Chair, Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, University of California Riverside Chair: John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, SEAS Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Center […]
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Sat, Oct 27, 2012 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Join internationally acclaimed filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala for a screening of her film and Q&A afterwards, as part of an ongoing exhibit at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts of her photography, Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India (Oct. 25 – Dec. 20). Little Zizou is a comedy for all ages. It is the rambunctious […]
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Thu, Oct 25, 2012 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India – special opening event. Internationally-acclaimed screenwriter and photographer Sooni Taraporevala will discuss her work with Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, the Director of the Humanities Center and the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. From October […]
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Tue, Oct 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Prospects for Accelerating Progress in Health and Nutrition in India A joint program with the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health as part of its GHP@50 celebration of 50 years of global health work 4-6 PM: Indian Music and Tea, Symposium with several leading scholars and authorities at Kresge 502, […]
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Fri, Oct 19, 2012 from 09:30am — 11:00am, ET
Spurring Entrepreneurship: A Case for Inclusive Innovation in Emerging Markets Lessons For Pakistan from China and India 9:30 AM in Cambridge, 6:30 PM in Pakistan This event will be videoconferenced and webcast from Cambridge, MA Join in the conversation – tweet questions to #saipak Tarun Khanna, Director of the Harvard South Asia Initiative & Jorge […]
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