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Quarter Number 4/11 – Film Event

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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

RESCHEDULED: NEW DATE & TIME   Ranu Ghosh, Documentary Director and Screenplay Writer Jaya Bhagat, Edward S. Mason Fellow 2013, Harvard Kennedy School Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Quarter Number 4/11 is a ground zero perspective of urban real estate development, as witnessed by director/cinematographer Ranu Ghosh and narrated through the plight of […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Authority, Action, Criticism: Gandhi and Constructive Satyagraha Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies What is the structure of criticism embedded in Gandhian forms of action? The lecture considers the ways in which action and criticism can be […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Mon, Nov 26, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Naxalism and Orissa: Divergent Conflicts, Political Economy, and Minoritization Angana Chatterji, Co-chair, Research Project on Armed Conflict and People’s Rights, Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, University of California at Berkeley Neat and Laundered Middle Classes and Third Gender Nepal Communist party-United Marxist Leninist: Masculinity and Politics in Contemporary Nepal Sanjeev Uprety, Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu; […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Fri, Nov 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Vernacular Political Economy in Colonial Bengal   Andrew Sartori, Associate Professor of History, New York University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Bengali agrarian politics of the late colonial period turned to a very great extent on debates over property. To make sense of the emergence […]

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Urbanization Seminar Series

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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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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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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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