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South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact

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Thu, Apr 16, 2015 - Fri, Apr 17, 2015, ET

Annual Symposium Workshops to highlight interfaculty research projects supported by SAI, and launch of the exhibit and book Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity. Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:00 – 12:00 pm: Mobile Technology to Access Healthcare Services – Case Studies from the Global South 1:00 – 3:00 pm: Role of South Asian Arts in Education 4:00 – 4:30 […]

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Conceptualizing The Urban Civic Realm: Insights From The Indian City

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Tue, Apr 14, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Speaker: Prem Chandavarkar, Managing Partner, CnT Architects. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is necessary to distinguish between ‘civic space’ and ‘public space’: the former must embrace inter-personal engagement, whereas the latter need not go […]

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Perspectives: A Conversation with Rohail Hyatt

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Mon, Apr 13, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Arts Initiative and Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Rohail Hyatt, Producer, Coke Studio; actor; film composer; rock music artist; and keyboardist Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Hyatt will discuss the laws of nature in contrast to the current […]

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The People’s Hero? Jayaprakash Narayan Reconsidered

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Thu, Apr 9, 2015 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

SAI Student Event Mircea Raianu, PhD Candidate, Harvard History Department; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University; former Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for Area Studies; former Graduate Student Associate, South Asia Institute Anand Vaidya, South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute; former Graduate Student […]

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Language of Metaphysics, Language for Politics: Some Lessons from Allama Prabhu’s Vacanas

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Fri, Apr 3, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, Assistant Professor of History, Karnataka State Open University. 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 The seminar will focus on the vacanas of Allama Prabhu, the 12th century vacanākara […]

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Empire from the Edges: Shi‘i and Messianic Challenges to Mughal Authority

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Thu, Apr 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Updated location: CGIS South S153 Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Asian Studies Program; Affiliated Faculty, Islamic Studies Program; Co-Director Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt University. Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal […]

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Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges Planning and design processes under the aegis of transnational organizations: case studies in India and in the South-East Asia region

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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Speaker: Maristella Casciato, Associate Director, Research – Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. The lecture Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges sheds light on the complex processes of decolonization after […]

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Digital Archives and Public History: Documenting and Exhibiting South Asian American Stories

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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

SAI and MIT-India present: Lecture Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samip Mallick, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive Pawan Dhingra, Founding Curator of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation Professor and Director, Department of Sociology, Tufts University Moderated by Vivek Bald, 2014-15 Harvard University Charles […]

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