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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design This panel brings together three urban scholars […]
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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Shubhankita Ojha, Global Fellow, WIGH; Fellow, South Asia Institute, Harvard University; University of Delhi, India Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Graduate Student Commentator: Rudi Batzell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Learn more about Ojha’s research:
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Sat, Oct 15, 2016 - Sun, Oct 16, 2016, ET
Student Event Pakathon Boston is partnering with SAI, the Harvard Pakistan Student’s Group, and the HKS Pakistan Caucus this year to organize its annual ‘hackathon.’ Teams will work to create a solution for a social issue in Pakistan and work on a business plan to implement this solution. They’ve put together an amazing program; anyone who […]
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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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