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Degrees of Clientelism in the World’s Largest Democracy

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Fri, Sep 25, 2015 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College Aseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College’s Government department. She was previously an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and […]

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Rahul Roy Film Festival: Till We Meet Again Screening & Panel Discussion on Masculinity and Gender Violence in South Asia

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Thu, Sep 24, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

Film Screening and Panel Discussion Geeta Aiyer, Founder, Direct Action for Women Now Worldwide (DAWN) Elora Halim Chowdhury, Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, U-Mass Boston Beena Sarwar, Editor, Aman ki Asha, Jang Group Pakistan; former Nieman Fellow and Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Rahul Roy, Director Chair: Parimal G. […]

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Rahul Roy Film Festival: The City Beautiful

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Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 04:00pm, ET

Film Screening and Discussion Q+A with Rahul Roy, Director Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last ten years have seen a gradual disintegration of the handloom tradition of this community under the […]

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Rahul Roy Film Festival: When Four Friends Meet & Majma

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Tue, Sep 22, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Film Screening and Gender Seminar Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangirpuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is changing rapidly… girls seem to be very bold… stable jobs are not easy to come by… […]

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Securities Regulation and Financial Institutions in India

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Tue, Sep 22, 2015 from 03:30pm — 05:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event U.K. Sinha, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Accounting and Management Unit, Harvard Business School

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Mobile Technology Summer Program Final Presentation

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Mon, Sep 21, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

SAI Special Event This summer, with support from Harvard’s President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences, SAI ran an 8-week summer program in India for Harvard College students to explore the potential of mobile technology to enable economic and social mobility, which combined academic coursework and experiential learning. The program culminated in a final project, which the […]

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Welcome Back Chaat Party

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Thu, Sep 17, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Celebrate the start of the school year with SAI! Meet SAI’s Visiting Fellows and faculty Learn about student funding opportunities Hear what’s happening at SAI Enjoy delicious South Asian food This event is for Harvard affiliates – please be prepared to show your Harvard ID. Join the Facebook event. If you are interested in representing […]

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Using Cell Phones to Study Behavior: From Individuals to Entire Nations

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Tue, Sep 15, 2015 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET

Webinar Watch the live stream here. JP Onnela, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Cell phones are no longer just a tool of communication – they are being used to improve the lives of billions of people. As the technology continues to improve, collecting behavioral data is getting easier and […]

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Clothes to Die For

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Thu, Sep 10, 2015 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Film Screening and Discussion Zara Hayes, Director Ruth Barron, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chair: Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh is the worst industrial disaster of the 21st century, […]

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Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity Exhibition

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Sun, Aug 23, 2015

Over fifty Harvard professors, students, administrative staff, and medical practitioners made the pilgrimage to Allahabad, India, to the Kumbh Mela site in 2013, to analyze issues that emerge in any large-scale human gathering. The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity book and exhibition consolidate research findings and serve as an example of interdisciplinary research conducted at Harvard. […]

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