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Film Event: Saving Face

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Thu, Oct 4, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET

2012 Academy Award for Documentary, Short Subject Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Daniel Junge Every year, hundreds of people- mostly women- are attacked with acid in Pakistan.Saving Face follows several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a London-based reconstructive surgeon who has returned to his homeland of Pakistan to help them restore their […]

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Oracular Speech, Collective Intention, and the Ideology of Absence

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Fri, Sep 28, 2012 from 12:15pm — 02:30pm, ET

Case Studies from India Professor William S. Sax, Chair of Ethnology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University “Possession” by gods and spirits is often accompanied by an ideology of absence, according to which those “possessed” have no memory of what they experienced or said during their trance.  Yet many aspects of such events seem to contradict this […]

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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

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Thu, Sep 27, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Muslim Devotional Art in India Yousuf Saeed, Independent Researcher and Filmmaker Based in Delhi, India Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Yousuf Saeed reads and illustrates from his new book Muslim Devotional Art in India. The presentation will conclude with a musical video “The Train […]

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Holy Kitchens Series: True Business

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Mon, Sep 17, 2012 from 05:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

A film about the Sikh culture of generosity and sharing through the tradition of their community kitchens.   Presented by Vikas Khanna, Michelin Starred Indian chef, restaurateur, food writer, film maker, humanitarian and the host of the TV Show MasterChef India. Introduction by Harpreet Singh, College Fellow and member of faculty in the Department of […]

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Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Love Sublime/Love, Truth and Beauty)

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Sun, Sep 16, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET

AJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1978 There is nothing quite like Satyam Shivam Sundaram: it’s a meditation on love and beauty, a raunchy, Russ-Meyer-esque T&A melodrama, an exposé of the dangers of rural electrification and a throwback psychedelic musical.

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Jagte Raho (Stay Awake)

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Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:30pm, ET

RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1956 A Chaplinesque tramp gets more than he bargained for when he wanders into a luxury apartment building in search of a glass of water.

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Meera Nam Joker (My Name Is Joker)

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Sat, Sep 15, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET

RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1970 Kapoor’s legendary film maudit, about a mopey, love-obsessed clown and his three pathetically failed love affairs is a compulsively watchable, astonishing train wreck of a film.

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