Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
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Thu, Nov 30, 2017 from 12:15pm — 02:00pm, ET
Asia Center Seminar Series with Professor Jie Li with discussant Professor Carter Eckert
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Looking Back, Informing the Future: A Multidisciplinary Research Project on the 1947 Partition of British India
2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India, as well as the launch of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s major research on Partition.
More InfoSonal Khullar: Southern Lights: Art History and Postcolonial Modernism
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Thu, Nov 30, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Sonal Khullar explores decolonizing museum practices in the display of South Asian Art, using the 2017 Documenta exhibition of Indian painter, Amrita Sher-Gil as a case study.
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Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 04:15pm, ET
Panel discussion about Trump in Asia
More InfoHarvard Pakistani Mixer 2017
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Thu, Nov 30, 2017
A mixer hosted by the Harvard Pakistani Student Group
More InfoScreening 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.
More InfoThe 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.
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