WHEN
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 […]
More InfoWHEN
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 […]
More InfoWHEN
Thu, Mar 1, 2012 from 04:15pm — 05:45pm, ET
Naveeda Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University Co-sponsored with the Harvard Asia Center as part of their Islam in Asia Seminar Series
More InfoWHEN
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 […]
More InfoWHEN
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 […]
More InfoWHEN
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 […]
More InfoWHEN
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
More InfoWHEN
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 […]
More InfoWHEN
Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Faith, Loyalty, Status: Mughal-era Perspectives on Elite Rajput Conversions to Islam Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Ramya Srinivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies.
More InfoWHEN
Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1965 Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Vivek Bald is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. […]
More InfoWHEN
Fri, Nov 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Vernacular Political Economy in Colonial Bengal Andrew Sartori, Associate Professor of History, New York University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Bengali agrarian politics of the late colonial period turned to a very great extent on debates over property. To make sense of the emergence […]
More InfoWHEN
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW – To be rescheduled! History Off Center: Writing from the Margins of Empire Allison Busch, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University The historiography of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) […]
More Info