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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

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Outer 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.

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Nepathya: 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.

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Kudiyattam 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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Kudiyattam Lecture

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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.”

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Unravelling 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”?

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Looking Back, Informing the Future: A Multidisciplinary Research on the 1947 Partition of British India

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Tue, Oct 24, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Rahul Mehrotra (Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University), Tarun Khanna (Director, Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School), and Karim R. Lakhani (Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School) discuss the complexities of large-scale human migration and resettlements.

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