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Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

WHEN
Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S354

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Jeffrey Witsoe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Union College Discussant: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, […]

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Intellectual Antecedents of the Global South: The Historical Thought of K. M. Panikkar

WHEN
Tue, Apr 8, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Christopher Lee, Lecturer in International Relations, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand; Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Kris K. Manjapra, Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University Cosponsored with the W. E. B. Du Bois […]

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Let’s Talk About Equity: Coverage of Maternal and Child Health Interventions in India

WHEN
Mon, Apr 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University

ADDRESS
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Global Health Seminar Diego Bassani, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Chair: SV Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Cosponsored with the Center for Population Development Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 […]

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The State and the Market in the Delivery of Primary Education in India: Theory and Evidence

WHEN
Fri, Apr 4, 2014 from 02:30pm — 04:30pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel K031

ADDRESS
CGIS Knafel K031
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Education Seminar Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics (Brown Watson Institute, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and MIT Center for International Studies)

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Educators for Teaching India Conference

WHEN
Fri, Apr 4, 2014 from 09:00am — 04:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, 4th Floor

ADDRESS
CGIS South, 4th Floor
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

Women in India: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity Keynote Speaker: Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University Closing speaker: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and Director of the Harvard South Asia Institute   Established in 2008, Educators for Teaching India (EFTI) is a group […]

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Global Literature Book Group: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

WHEN
Mon, Mar 31, 2014 from 07:00pm — 08:00pm

Discussant: Shankar Ramaswami, South Asia Institute South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Join the Harvard Global Health Institute and the South Asia Institute in a live webinar discussion for K-12 educators of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, […]

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Gandhi on Courage, Ethics and Society

WHEN
Fri, Mar 28, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Uday Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The City University of New York Discussant: Shankar Ramaswami, South Asia Institute South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Uday Singh Mehta, distinguished professor of political science, is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses […]

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Film Screening: Red Ant Dream

WHEN
Wed, Mar 26, 2014 from 04:30pm — 07:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138


VENUE
Science Center Hall E

ADDRESS
Science Center Hall E
1 Oxford St
Cambridge, MA

South Asia Institute Film Event Film Screening: 4:30PM – 6:30PM; Q&A with Director: 6:30PM – 7:00PM Sanjay Kak, Indian Documentary Filmmaker Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University ‘Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist’, the revolutionary patriot Bhagat Singh had said almost a hundred years ago, […]

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Film Preview: Rehaai

WHEN
Tue, Mar 25, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Film Screening: 4:00PM – 4:30PM; Q&A with Director: 4:30PM – 5:30PM Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation  Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School Kashf Foundation is the one of the leading micro-finance providers in Pakistan, with special outreach to women headed businesses. Rehaii, is […]

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Why Study the Brain?

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Fri, Mar 14, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am

SAI Webinar Venkatesh Murthy, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University How do you sense the world? How do you remember things? How do you sing, play or even just walk? How do you think? Of course, you do all of this with your brain, which has been called the most complex machine in […]

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