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Urbanization Seminar Series

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Wed, Apr 3, 2013 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

Small Cities, Big Issues: Why Small Cities Matter in Debates on Urban Poverty and Inequality Neema Kudva, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning, Cornell University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Urbanization Seminar Series

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Tue, Feb 19, 2013 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

Deruralization: The Modernist City in the Age of Globalization Vikramāditya Prakāsh, Professor of Architecture; Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, Adjunct Professor of Urban Design and Planning; Director, Chandigarh Urban Lab, University of Washington Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Urbanization Seminar Series

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Tue, Mar 26, 2013 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

Decoding Dhaka Farooq Ameen, Principal, City Design Studio Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design The city of Dhaka is one of the largest, most dense urban masses in the world.  Its population is projected to reach 20 million by […]

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Thinking with the Heart: A Language of Justice After the 1971 War of Bangladesh

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Mon, Mar 19, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University   The scholarship on post-conflict resolution is growing and the new questions and discourses on peacemaking forefront […]

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South Asia: The World’s Laboratory

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Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 07:00pm, ET —
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00pm, ET

South Asia: The World’s Laboratory A special SAI event in New York City. Inquire for details:sainit@fas.harvard.edu Home to nearly a sixth of humanity, the birthplace of many of the world’s great religions and philosophies, and now a hotbed for innovation and technological change, South Asia is truly the world’s laboratory, a space where we can […]

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Summer Film Series: Ontorjatra

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Thu, Jul 25, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET

Ontorjatra (‘The Inner Journey’) is a 2006 Bangla film exploring complex issues of identity and dislocation in a diaspora world. A divorced mother and her son return to Bangladesh after 15 years in London after the ex-husband’s sudden death and funeral. The story follows the transforming experience of the mother and son as they come […]

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The United States in Asia: Five Media Perspectives

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Mon, Mar 5, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

The Harvard University Asia Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University present a forum on The United States in Asia: Five Media Perspectives With the participation of Nieman Fellows from Asia Moderated by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor […]

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The Social and Political Cost of Inaction

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Thu, Dec 8, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director Facilitated by Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School and Lecturer on Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the FXB Center at Harvard, co-sponsored in part by SAI

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Summer Film Series: Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam

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Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:30pm, ET

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is a based on a Bengali novel by Bimal Mitra, providing a glimpse into the fall of feudalism in Bengal during the era of the British Raj. The film explores a platonic relationship between the lonely and beautiful wife of an aristocrat and a hard-working, part-time servant. The film has been […]

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