Partition Seminar Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliated Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Chen will be speaking from a personal perspective, as a long-term resident of India and Pakistan who […]
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Wed, Mar 22, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:30pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
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Tue, Mar 21, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event Cosponsored with Asia Center
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Mon, Mar 20, 2017 from 04:15pm — 07:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly couple wish their children to care for them in their old age. But their children see and treat them as a burden, and they must struggle to regain their worth and dignity to themselves and others. Cosponsored with […]
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Fri, Mar 10, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Emmerich Davies Escobar, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education Bryce Millett Steinberg, Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary […]
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Fri, Mar 10, 2017
Cosponsored Event February 6 – March 10 2017 Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2nd Floor Exhibition Wall Ashley C. Thompson, Design Studies in Risk and Resilience, Harvard Graduate School of Design Curated from a collection of portraits of women and girls taken over more than 25 years of global travel, the exhibition presents ten portraits of […]
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Thu, Mar 9, 2017 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Student Event Owen Cornwall, Columbia University This talk will discuss the history of the astrolabe in South Asia between 1200-1600CE. As the most important astronomical instrument in the medieval period, the history of the astrolabe in Europe is fairly well known. The history of the astrolabe in South Asia, however, contains many intriguing gaps and […]
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Partition Seminar Lucy Chester, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Over a period of six weeks in the summer of 1947, Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India and had no experience in boundary-making, drew a 2500-mile-long line that would divide India and Pakistan. This talk will examine the pseudo-judicial framework and deeply […]
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Mon, Mar 6, 2017 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
*Please not the change in start time. Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Ankit Chadha, Storyteller / Author Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling, developed in eighth century A.D. around the adventures of an Arab hero, Amir Hamza. These stories became very popular in […]
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Sat, Mar 4, 2017
Special Event Featuring new and largely unpublished work, this one-day conference sets up a dialogue between designers and social scientists. By connecting fine-grained micro studies with broader imaginations for the metropolitan region, we intend to open up new scalar possibilities for Mumbai. Cosponsored with Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. Enter the conference website and register.
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