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Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 02:00pm, ET
JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Sonalde Desai, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland Sonalde Desai is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social inequalities in developing countries with a particular focus on gender and class inequalities. She studies inequalities in education, employment and maternal and child health outcomes by locating them […]
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Mon, Oct 15, 2018 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Nadeem Hussain, founder of Telenor Microfinance Bank, is globally recognized for his dedication and service to financial inclusion. He has chaired the United Nation’s MDG Session on Financial Inclusion, is a frequent speaker at international forums on branchless banking and microfinance, and has held numerous board and committee positions in the sector. He will discuss the […]
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Fri, Oct 12, 2018 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
Sreenivasan Jain, Managing Editor of one of India’s major TV news networks, NDTV, discusses the immense demands and challenges of effectively covering such a large and diverse country.
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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 from 07:30pm — 09:00pm, ET
Join celebrated Hindustani musician Aastha Goswami for an intimate concert on Harvard campus. Aastha Goswami received her music training from the prestigious ITC SangeetResearch Academy in Kolkata where she trained under the tutelage of Pandit Arun Bhaduri and the legendary Padma Vibhushan Smt. Girija Devi Ji. Performing for more than 20 years all over India, with […]
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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
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Join visiting scholar Chinmay Tumbe and moderator Ian Talbot for a discussion about the great Indian Migration wave. In this seminar, Tumbe provides an overview of his book, India Moving: A History of Migration, that attempts to explain when, how and why people have moved to, from and within the subcontinent over centuries. It reveals one of […]
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Thu, Oct 4, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
Dr. Moeed Yusuf will present his research on US role in India-Pakistan crisis management, captured in his latest book Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia. The book proposes an original theory to study regional nuclear crises and specifically US role in crisis management.
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Wed, Oct 3, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
As part of our ongoing India Seminar Series, we are partnering with the Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego for a talk titled, ‘Gender, Violence and Vulnerabilities of Adolescents in India’ by Dr. Anita Raj, Tata Chancellor Professor of Medicine, Director of Center on Gender Equity & Health (Department of Medicine), UC […]
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Wed, Oct 3, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) surveyed leaders from 604 Rohingya hamlets in Myanmar’s Rakhine state encompassing more than 916,000 people. The findings, coupled with in-depth interviews and forensic medical examinations of Rohingya survivors, point to a widespread and systematic pattern of targeted violence – including rapes and killings of women, men, and children – that drove more than 720,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. Dr. Parveen Parmar and Dr. Jen Leigh will present the findings of these studies.
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