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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:00am, ET —
Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 06:00pm, ET
Special Event The interregional arena of the Indian Ocean has emerged as a connected—if not unified—field of historical study. While the case for integration had been strongly suggested by historical scholarship since the 1980s on the pre-colonial and early modern periods, comparisons and connections across the Indian Ocean in the colonial and modern eras have […]
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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and 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 South Asia at the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for […]
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Wed, Oct 12, 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. *Please note the change in time
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Fri, Oct 7, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Alf Nilsen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University This paper aims to contribute to discussions of subaltern politics in contemporary India through an investigation of the character and trajectory of democratic mobilisation among Bhil Adivasis in western Madhya Pradesh. Grounded […]
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Thu, Oct 6, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Film Screening Subsari Krishnan, Filmmaker Shankar Ramaswami, Lecturer on South Asian Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University On 18th February 1983, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, more than 2000 Muslims were killed in the town of Nellie and its surrounding villages in Assam, India. People’s homes were burnt down and their fields destroyed. Most of […]
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Wed, Oct 5, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Frank Heidemann, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Chair: Richard Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University In puja, a Hindu act of worship, the relationship between devotee and God is transformed and the space between them altered. Using case studies of the Badagas in the Nilgiri hills of South […]
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Wed, Oct 5, 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. *Please note the change in time
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Fri, Sep 30, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Book Talk S. Nazrul Islam, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Development Policy Analysis Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Chair: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Analyzing Bangladesh’s governance problems and drawing insights that will be relevant to other developing countries, this book sharpens our understanding of governance and suggests […]
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Thu, Sep 29, 2016 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Gita Sen, Distinguished Professor & Director, Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health, Public Health Foundation of India This series features current research of members and affiliates of Global Health and Population, HSPH. The intent is to both educate and raise the awareness of our community and beyond, about the research […]
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Thu, Sep 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Please join the Carr Center for a screening of the new movie “Trafficked”, based on the award winning book ‘Sex Trafficking’ by Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara, and directed by Will Wallace. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, with time for questions from the audience. Siddharth Kara, Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy, […]
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