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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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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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Wed, Mar 8, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
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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Mon, Mar 6, 2017 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
*Please not the change in start time. Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Ankit Chadha, Storyteller / Author Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling, developed in eighth century A.D. around the adventures of an Arab hero, Amir Hamza. These stories became very popular in […]
More InfoSpecial Event Featuring new and largely unpublished work, this one-day conference sets up a dialogue between designers and social scientists. By connecting fine-grained micro studies with broader imaginations for the metropolitan region, we intend to open up new scalar possibilities for Mumbai. Cosponsored with Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. Enter the conference website and register.
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Wed, Mar 1, 2017 from 07:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Please join us after the Seminar Series event for a brief group discussion to share reflections on the presentation. The newest initiative, the 1947 Partition Stories ‘Looking Back’ project, is a collaborative effort to extend the lessons from Partition into today. Our goal is to reflect on how the consequences of Partition have manifested and extend […]
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Wed, Mar 1, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Partition Seminar 5:00 – 6:00 PM: The Short and Long Run Impacts of the Partition Prashant Bharadwaj, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego This paper examines how areas affected by the partition fare in the long run. Using migrant presence as a proxy for the intensity of the […]
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Tue, Feb 28, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Soledad Prillaman, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University In India there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation, despite several decades of targeted policy interventions. Women’s political participation is important not […]
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Thu, Feb 23, 2017 from 07:30pm — 11:00pm, ET
Special Event Poetic Strokes is proud to join hands with South Asia Institute at Harvard University in bringing “Remembering Faiz – A tribute” to Dubai. Grandson of Faiz, Adeel Hashmi will recite his poetry along with some other performances by the award winner Sonam Kalra and Asad Anees – The Virtuoso Pianist. Event is on […]
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