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Wed, Dec 7, 2016 from 05:15pm — 06:45pm, ET
Special Event Navtej Sarna, Indian Ambassador to the US Chair: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, South Asia Institute Ambassador Sarna took charge as Ambassador of India to the United States on November 5, 2016. He has been a Member of the Indian Foreign Service since 1980. He was previously posted in […]
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Wed, Dec 7, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Harvard faculty, students, fellows, staff, and affiliates are invited to a weekly tea break at SAI’s office, 4th floor of 1730 Cambridge Street. Come enjoy tea and snacks and get to know SAI’s community. SAI Visiting Artist Meenakshi Sengupta will lead an interactive art performance during the tea break.
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Arts Seminar Meenakshi Sengupta, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, South and Southeast Asian Art, Harvard University This talk will focus on the celebration of womanhood and how Sengupta comes to this work. Boys don’t cry is a title of her recent drawing […]
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Thu, Dec 1, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Asad Liaqat, Doctoral candidate, Public Policy PhD program, Harvard Kennedy School Discussant: Sharan Mamidipudi, Doctoral candidate, Public Policy PhD program, Harvard Kennedy School We investigate the relationship between candidates’ connections, party performance, and voting in the 2015 local government elections in Pakistan combining: (i) data on political connections between candidates and more senior […]
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Wed, Nov 30, 2016 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET
Livelihood Creation Webinar Click here to register. Mukti Khaire, Cornell Tech Shashank Shah, Harvard South Asia Institute Professor Mukti Khaire and Dr. Shashank Shah will discuss learnings from six field projects in the Indian crafts sector, funded by Tata Trusts. The grants supported and enabled the implementation of social and technological innovations at: […]
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Wed, Nov 30, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Harvard faculty, students, fellows, staff, and affiliates are invited to a weekly tea break at SAI’s office, 4th floor of 1730 Cambridge Street. Come enjoy tea and snacks and get to know SAI’s community.
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Fri, Nov 18, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Simon Chauchard, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Dartmouth College 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 South Asia at the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the MIT Center […]
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Wed, Nov 16, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Due to the SAI Seminar Hierarchical democracy and political responsibility in Northern India, we will not be hosting our weekly tea break. We will resume on November 30. Please join us at the seminar!
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Wed, Nov 16, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Dr Anastasia Piliavsky, Fellow and Director of Studies in Social Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge; Director of Studies in Social Anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge; Newton-Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, CRASSH, Cambridge Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University It is the central article of faith in Western political theory that […]
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Mon, Nov 14, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Lisa Bjorkman, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design In the Indian city of Mumbai, two dazzling decades of urban development and roaring economic growth have presided over the steady deterioration – and sometimes spectacular breakdown – of the city’s […]
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