Postponed: Film Screening (TBD)
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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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POSTPONED: Film Screening: Baghban
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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 […]
More InfoThe Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Schools on Political Behavior
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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 […]
More InfoA World of Women Villages
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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 […]
More InfoThe Astrolabe in Medieval India
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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 […]
More InfoThe Radcliffe Boundary Commission: Cartography and Conflict in the Partition of India and Pakistan
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 […]
More InfoDastangoi: The art of Urdu storytelling
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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 InfoMumbai: Research + Projections Social Sciences and Spatial Thinking
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Sat, Mar 4, 2017
Special 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.
More InfoPartition Project: Focus Group Discussion
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 […]
More InfoThe Short and Long Run Impacts of the Partition / Crowd Sourcing Memories
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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