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2017 SAI Symposium, MAY 3-4: South Asia: Migrations and Transformations

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Wed, May 3, 2017 - Thu, May 4, 2017, ET

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Join us at the 2017 SAI Symposium, our annual flagship event, where we bring together scholars, practitioners and audiences to discuss, debate and dissect major South Asian themes from an interlocking variety of perspectives. This year, we are exploring migrations and transformations in society, from the points of view of visual arts, life sciences, and the study […]

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Archive Making and Archival Silences in Mughal Punjab

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Wed, Apr 26, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event Speaker: Purnima Dhavan,  Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in History at University of Washington Moderators: Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persian & Indian Literatures at Boston University Neelam Khoja, Ph.D. Candidate Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies at Harvard University Lahore, the major urban hub and occasional […]

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Trump and Asia: Business as Usual?

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Tue, Apr 25, 2017 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event SAI Director Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, moderates a panel discussion on the impact of the election of Donald Trump on America’s trade and business dealings with Asian countries. Panellists: Mark Wu – Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School; member of the Faculty Advisory Committees of the East Asian Legal Studies Program and […]

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Ending America’s Longest War: Experiences from the diplomatic front lines in Afghanistan

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Mon, Apr 24, 2017 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event Please join the India and South Asia Project in a conversation with Ambassador Feldman, Ambassador Grossman, and Ambassador Olson on the evolution of U.S. Policy in Afghanistan. Join the India and South Asia Project for a panel which will explore the evolution of U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The speakers include: Daniel Feldman, former US Special […]

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A conversation with India’s Chief Economic Adviser

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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 07:15pm — 08:30pm, ET

The Harvard India Student Group is hosting an evening conversation with Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Mr Subramanian has performed this role since October 2014. Prior to that he was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, in Washington […]

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An Evening with Rana Dasgupta

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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event A public reading and discussion with British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta. Rana is a novelist and essayist, and the winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for his novel Solo. He currently lives in Delhi and his nonfiction book Capital constructs an intimate oral history to unfold the possibilities and catastrophes of the city’s elite class. […]

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Legal Identity for Children in South Asia: The Role of Birth Registration and Biometric Identification

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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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Rethinking Empires and Space: Histories of South Asia(ns), Mobility & Boundary Making

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Tue, Apr 18, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event Panelists: Kornel Chang, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark Catherine Warner, College Fellow in South Asian Studies and History at Harvard University Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History at Brown University Discussants: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies Professor of History at Harvard University Hardeep Dhillon, […]

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Energizing India: Scenarios for India’s Energy Future

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Mon, Apr 17, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

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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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