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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 from 08:30am — 09:30am, ET
SAI and the Tata Trusts invite you to a webinar on ‘Handcrafted aesthetic goods and markets: Bridging paradigms for livelihood regeneration’ Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School. The webinar will address: India’s handicrafts and handlooms crisis Approaches to regenerate the sector How the gap between the handcrafted paradigm and business paradigm can be bridged […]
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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Javed Younas, Aman Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School The aid allocation literature reveals a negative association between the recipients’ income and aid inflows, implying that, all else equal, poorer nations receive more aid. This literature has assumed that two […]
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Wed, Dec 2, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Student Event Gaiutra Bahadur, Author Chair: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History, Harvard University In this talk, Bahadur will offer her reflections on migration and indentured servitude. Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning American journalist who writes frequently about migration, literature and gender. Her reporting, criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Dissent, History […]
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Wed, Dec 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Arts Seminar Basir Mahmood, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Basir Mahmood, recipient of South Asia Institute 2015 Emerging Artist Award, will be offering insights […]
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Mon, Nov 23, 2015 from 05:30pm — 06:30pm, ET
Charles Shao, Founder and Executive Chairman of Huaxia Dairy Farm Ltd Discussant: Ateya Khorakiwala, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Charles Shao is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Huaxia Dairy Farm Ltd. Huaxia operates three dairy farms […]
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Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 02:00pm, ET
As part of its project mission, the Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights in collaboration with other Harvard schools will convene a high profile international conference of experts drawn from academia, government, business and civil society to examine the scientific, technical, social and political aspects of national ID systems. This two and half-day […]
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Thu, Nov 19, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Sarika Gupta, PhD candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Graduate Student Associate, South Asia Institute Discussant: Radhika Jain, PhD Candidate, Harvard University This talk will present an overview of an ongoing field project in Delhi aimed at understanding barriers citizens face in successfully taking up government welfare programs. Specifically, it will discuss […]
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Wed, Nov 18, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Film Event Rakesh Sharma, Film Director 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 Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 – July 2003, the film graphically documents the […]
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Tue, Nov 17, 2015 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET
Webinar Satchit Balsari, Chief, Weill Cornell Global Emergency Medicine Division, and Faculty, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The world’s largest gathering of humanity happens every 12 years on the banks of the Godavari in Nashik, and will reach its peak in August and September, when over a […]
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Mon, Nov 16, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Book Talk Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Rohit De, Associate Research Scholar in Law, Yale Nick Robinson, Resident Fellow, Center on the Legal Profession Cosponsored with Harvard Law School Although the field of constitutional law has become increasingly comparative in recent years, its geographic focus has remained limited. South Asia, despite […]
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