Film Screening: Baghban
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Tue, Nov 14, 2017 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
We are screening the landmark Hindi drama film Baghban (2003) as part of the Aging in Asia film series. Admission is free and there will be refreshments.
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Land Acquisition in India and China
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Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:00pm, ET —
Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 01:30pm, ET
Huang Yinghong, Associate Professor (School of International Relations, Sun Yat-sen University) will discuss the active role of the state and its compulsory measures towards land acquisition in India and China. Co-sponsored with the Harvard Yenching Institute , Asia Center and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute
More InfoOuter Beauty and Inner Silence
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Fri, Nov 10, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
This lecture will offer readings from one extraordinary section of the Tamil text, Kampaṉ’s twelfth-century Irāmāvatāram, the Cittirakūṭap paṭalam.
More InfoNepathya: Kudiyattam, Sanskrit Theater Performance
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Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 07:00pm, ET
Kudiyattam is the last living performance tradition of Sanskrit theater in the world. Recognized by UNESCO as preserving “masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity,” this visually powerful tradition is performed by the troupe Nepathya, from central Kerala in South India.
More InfoWhen Women Mobilize: Dissecting India’s Gender Gap in Political Representation
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Thu, Nov 9, 2017
Soledad Prillaman of Harvard University speaks at Brown University.
More InfoKudiyattam Workshop
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Wed, Nov 8, 2017 from 05:15pm — 06:30pm, ET
Join the troupe Nepathya for a special workshop on Kudiyattam. This visually powerfully tradition is recognized by Unesco as preserving “masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.”
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Wed, Nov 8, 2017 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
Dean Shulman of Hebrew University will be discussing Kudiyattam, the last living performance tradition of Sanskrit theater in the world. Kudiyattam is recognized by Unesco as a “masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.”
More InfoUnravelling the Kashmir Knot
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Mon, Nov 6, 2017 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
“Unravelling the Kashmir Knot” delves into the questions entangled in the Kashmir issue: Do the rules that created Pakistan make Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) a part of India? Is the routing of the China-Pakistan economic corridor through J&K legal? How did J&K become a “disputed territory”?
More InfoNostalgia for the Future
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Tue, Oct 31, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
The film opens the discipline of architecture and filmmaking to self-critique and looks at the way that they imagine and construct a nation and its citizen.
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Tue, Oct 31, 2017