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Sat, Mar 25, 2017 from 01:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event This is the first meeting of a proposed annual conference of a research network that will meet every year at a different university, our other partner institutions being Chicago, Columbia and Cornell. Graduate Students from Harvard and beyond will convene to discuss a range of historical topics about border-making and border-crossing in various […]
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event A charming story of a group of senior citizens who set up a Peking Opera club in hopes of finding revitalization through singing and dancing. Fast paced and delightful. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
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Partition Seminar Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliated Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Chen will be speaking from a personal perspective, as a long-term resident of India and Pakistan who […]
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Wed, Mar 22, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:30pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
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Tue, Mar 21, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event Cosponsored with Asia Center
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Mon, Mar 20, 2017 from 04:15pm — 07:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly couple wish their children to care for them in their old age. But their children see and treat them as a burden, and they must struggle to regain their worth and dignity to themselves and others. Cosponsored with […]
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Fri, Mar 10, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Emmerich Davies Escobar, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education Bryce Millett Steinberg, Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary […]
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Fri, Mar 10, 2017
Cosponsored Event February 6 – March 10 2017 Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2nd Floor Exhibition Wall Ashley C. Thompson, Design Studies in Risk and Resilience, Harvard Graduate School of Design Curated from a collection of portraits of women and girls taken over more than 25 years of global travel, the exhibition presents ten portraits of […]
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Thu, Mar 9, 2017 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Student Event Owen Cornwall, Columbia University This talk will discuss the history of the astrolabe in South Asia between 1200-1600CE. As the most important astronomical instrument in the medieval period, the history of the astrolabe in Europe is fairly well known. The history of the astrolabe in South Asia, however, contains many intriguing gaps and […]
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Partition Seminar Lucy Chester, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Over a period of six weeks in the summer of 1947, Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India and had no experience in boundary-making, drew a 2500-mile-long line that would divide India and Pakistan. This talk will examine the pseudo-judicial framework and deeply […]
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