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The Earthquake in Nepal: Reflections on Relief & Recovery One Year Later

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Mon, Apr 25, 2016 from 01:15pm — 02:30pm, ET

Cosponsored Event On April 25, 2015, the Gorkha Earthquake struck Nepal, causing extensive damage and taking the lives of thousands. In this panel discussion, speakers, including students from several Harvard graduate programs, will draw on their research to discuss how relief and recovery have progressed in the year since the disaster occurred. Speakers: Erica Kelly, […]

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East India Company Revisited

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Fri, Apr 22, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Atul KohIi, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Cosponsored with Brown University, MIT, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Reception to follow.

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A Himalayan Consensus: What India and China Could Do

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Wed, Apr 20, 2016 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Ambassador Nirupama Rao, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University;  former Foreign Secretary of India; former Ambassador of India to China and the United States Cosponsored by the Harvard Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

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This Divided Island

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Mon, Apr 18, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Book Talk Samanth Subramanian, Author Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School In the summer of 2009, the leader of the Tamil Tigers was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years it had stretched its fingers: into the bustle […]

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Artist talk: White Butterfly

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Wed, Apr 13, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

 

Art Seminar Milan Rai, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Art Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Rai’s White Butterfly project was a personal art installation that has grown with a global outreach for different community causes and concerns. It is a demonstration of how the role of art can […]

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Celebrating Another Harmony: South Asian Folklore in the 21st Century

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Fri, Apr 8, 2016 - Sat, Apr 9, 2016, ET

Cosponsored Event On Friday, April 8th and Saturday, April 9th, 2016, the annual Folklore & Mythology Symposium will be “Celebrating Another Harmony: South Asian Folklore in the 21st Century”! Friday evening, April 8th, at 6:00 pm, Margaret Mills (Professor Emerita, Ohio Station University) will deliver the keynote address, in the Barker Center, Room 133. Saturday, April […]

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CANCELLED: Not Poor but Pauperized

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Thu, Apr 7, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

This event has been cancelled. South Asia Without Borders Seminar Jan Breman, Professor, SOAS, University of London Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies

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Techno-networks and Urban Space in Bombay Cinema

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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant structuring becomes one part of this imagination (No […]

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