Partition Seminar Catherine Warner, College Fellow in South Asian Studies and History, Harvard University When Partition is viewed from the lens of gender history, what happens? Is this the same history with women’s voices added and silences interpreted, or does it offer alternate scales and geographies? To what extent did Partition shape the gendering of citizenship […]
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Tue, Feb 14, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Social Enterprise Seminar Anshu Sharma, Co-founder and Chief Mentor, SEEDS Chair: Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design South Asia is one of the most disaster prone regions of the world. It is also a region undergoing deep economic and political transition. As a result of global […]
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Mon, Feb 13, 2017 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
Special Event Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Sarita Maskey, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Nepal Government Shriju Pradhan, Deputy Director, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Government of Nepal David Sanderson, Judith Nielsen Chair, University of New South Wales Anshu Sharma, Co-founder and Chief Mentor, SEEDS Although […]
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Sat, Feb 11, 2017 - Sun, Feb 12, 2017, ET
Special Event ‘India – The Global Growth Engine’ A student-run conference held at Harvard Business School & Harvard Kennedy School. Register.
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Fri, Feb 10, 2017 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Special Event Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Sarita Maskey, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Nepal Government Shriju Pradhan, Deputy Director, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Government of Nepal David Sanderson, Judith Nielsen Chair, University of New South Wales Anshu Sharma, Co-founder and Chief Mentor, SEEDS Although […]
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Fri, Feb 10, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Film Screening Deepa Mehta, Filmmaker Deepa Mehta will be screening her latest movie ‘The Anatomy of Violence’ on the sidelines of the India Conference. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Ms. Deepa Mehta, a UN representative, Harvard student activist Gulika Reddy, and Harvard Professor Jacqueline Bhabha Celebrated filmmaker Deepa Mehta investigates […]
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Thu, Feb 9, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Liu Zhen, Professor, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/Discussant: Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University This talk will offer a short introduction to the Sanskrit word “argaḍa” and its antonym “nirargaḍa”. The word “argaḍa” first appears in Brāhmaṇa literature […]
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The seminar will take place in CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA. Partition Seminar Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights The seminar will explore the story of the mass migration of Hindus/Sikhs […]
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Wed, Feb 8, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Hardeep Dhillon, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Harvard University; SAI Graduate Student Associate Discussants: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University In the early twentieth century, immigration from Asia to the U.S. propelled local, national, and […]
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Special Event About the 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 […]
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