Screening of Deepa Mehta’s “Earth”
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Mon, Nov 20, 2017 from 06:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
Acclaimed director Deepa Mehta, will screen her seminal film, Earth, and will participate in a conversation after the film.
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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Mass Violence in a Changing Myanmar
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Mon, Nov 20, 2017 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
Panel discussion about the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar – the UN describes it as “a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.”
More InfoThe Contentious Politics of Teacher Transfers in India: A Way Forward
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Fri, Nov 17, 2017 from 02:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
Tara Béteille is currently Senior Economist in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank. She will be presenting on a nine-state study of teacher recruitment and transfer practices in government schools.”
More InfoStrangely Familiar: Reading Buddhist Texts Around the Indian Ocean
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Thu, Nov 16, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Cornell University Professor of Buddhist Studies, Anne Blackburn, will explore processes of reading premodern Buddhist texts.
More InfoFilm 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.
More InfoLand 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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