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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Amiya Bhatia, Doctor of Science student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Connor Jerzak, PhD student, Government Department South Asia has the largest number of children who do not have birth certificates. As biometric identification programs (e.g. Aadhaar in India, NADRA in […]
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Mon, Apr 17, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Speaker: Suman Bery, former chief economist, Shell Corporation Moderator: Rohit Chandra, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Suman Bery will present some of the results and larger ideas of a joint study conducted by Shell and various Indian think tanks about potential scenarios for India’s energy future. He will discuss India’s energy mix, constraints and possibilities on its […]
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Sat, Apr 15, 2017 from 08:30am — 05:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event South Asia ConnectED April 15, 2017, 8:30 a.m – 5:00p.m, HGSE South Asia ConnectED is the first ever South Asia-centric education conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Explore catalyzing for scale in education policy, social change and education technology with leaders from South Asia. Join John Floretta (Associate Director of Policy […]
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Thu, Apr 13, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Babar Ali Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University From Story to Book (Kahani Se Kitab Tak) is a graduated reading program to introduce Urdu classical literature and folklore to native language speakers, and offer a new language testing […]
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Fri, Apr 7, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Yusuf Neggers, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University Simon Chauchard, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Dartmouth College Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Read the seminar paper. Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the […]
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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Coins are small metallic documents of the past. In the images and legends impressed upon them, they contain clues that can give us insights into the times in which they were created and used. In this talk, examples from ancient India will be used to show how the unpuzzling of these clues can help us bring back forgotten dynasties, recreate historical events and shine a light on political and economic conditions.
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Thu, Mar 30, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
Arts Seminar Madhu Das, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Susan Bean, Independent Scholar and Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies Madhu Das is a multi-disciplinary Visual Artist based in Mumbai, India; his artistic practice is primarily concerned with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that […]
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