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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Special Event This event seeks to explore challenges and successes of private and corporate philanthropy in South Asia in a comparative lens to philanthropy in the US. What are the enabling factors in the US that promote philanthropy? How do these compare to India’s enabling factors? For example, India is the first country to […]
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar S. Mukherjee, Director General & Secretary, Board of Trustees, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Mr. Mukherjee’s presentation will include an overview of issues concerning museums in South Asia, […]
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Mon, Nov 17, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Urbanization and Gender Seminar Sharmila Murthy, Assistant Professor of Law, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School Ramnath Subbaraman, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Research Advisor, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research (PUKAR), Mumbai, India Subhadra Banda, Research Associate, Centre for Policy Research; MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School of Government […]
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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar James Manor, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This talk will examine certain key implications of a monumentally important trend, […]
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Thu, Nov 13, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
This event has been cancelled. Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador of Pakistan to the US and Britain Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
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Mon, Nov 10, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Please note the updated date and location. Vikram Bhatt, Professor, School of Architecture and Director, Minimum Cost Housing Group, McGill University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Jugaad is a Hindi word meaning a clever improvisation […]
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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]
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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
Shridhar Venkat, CEO, Akshaya Patra Foundation; Eisenhower Fellow The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest NGO-directed school meal program, feeding 1.4 million children every day. To advance its vision that “No child in India will be deprived of education because of hunger”, the Foundation operates out of 22 locations throughout India, serving almost 11,000 […]
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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 05:15pm — 06:30pm, ET
Arts Lecture and Opening Reception for ‘Coded Elegance’ Photographer Pablo Bartholomew, whose career spans over 40 years, introspects on his personal collection of historical photographs as well as works by other photographers from the pre and post-Independence era, rounding off by elaborating on contemporary practices. This visual walkthrough consists of photographic work that has marked and influenced him. […]
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Tue, Nov 4, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Arts Initiative Seminar Pablo Bartholomew, Photojournalist Discussant: Bridget Corbett Hanna, Post-Doc, Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide Factory, now owned by Dow Chemicals, caused the death of thousands of inhabitants of Bhopal and incapacitated the living who have […]
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