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Thu, Mar 10, 2016 - Fri, Mar 11, 2016, ET
Student Event ‘Global and International History: The Economic Dimension’ Financial, economic and political-economy issues have played a fundamental role in world development and continue to do so. They involve multiple agents besides the nation state; they prompt refined policy analysis; and they challenge historians to turn to the broadest range of sources and demand interdisciplinary […]
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Wed, Mar 9, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Narendar Pani, Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design The challenge of combating caste discrimination in India has generated two quite different approaches. There has been a radical view that the caste system can be made to disappear through, […]
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Tue, Mar 8, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Julia King, Architectural designer and urban researcher, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Diana Al-Hadid, Designer Dr. Atyia Martin, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Boston; Adjunct faculty in the Master of Homeland Security at Northeastern University Moderator:Susan Surface, Program Director at Design in Public On March 8, 2016, Women in Design, a […]
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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Christopher Clary, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University In traditional surveys in Pakistan, the vast majority of respondents identify India as an enemy and a serious threat to Pakistan. Do these beliefs affect voter choices? In a novel survey experiment, we […]
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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 - Sun, Mar 6, 2016, ET
This conference is a response to rapidly expanding interests in the musical traditions of South Asia within the Society for Ethnomusicology and a recognition that South Asia has always been part of a larger historical network involving Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. As the richness of scholarship on the music of these regions deepens, it becomes increasingly useful […]
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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Film Screening Pankaj Butalia, Documentary Filmmaker Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School Join filmmaker Pankaj Butalia for a screening of his film “The Textures of Loss,” followed by a discussion […]
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Tue, Mar 1, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Student Seminar Ashan Iqbal, Minister of Planning, Development, and Reform Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Michael Callen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Pakistani snacks will be served. Cosponsored with the Harvard Pakistan Student Group and the Pakistan Caucus at HKS
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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Priyasha Saksena, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School; SAI Graduate Student Associate Chair: Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk focuses on jurisdictional disputes between the Indian princely states and the British Government in late nineteenth-century South Asia to flesh out both the role played by international law in the definition […]
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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Anand V. Taneja, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Anthropology, Asian Studies Program, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Relations between religions in South Asia have been seen as marked by either competition or […]
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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Dean Spears, Rice Institute Dean Spears is the Executive Director of the RICE Institute. Dean’s research focuses on children’s health and human capital, which these days often means height, sanitation, and social forces in Indian households and villages. He has also done research about population issues in social welfare […]
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