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Webinar: Intellectual Property in Creative Industries

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Wed, May 4, 2016 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

Livelihood Creation Project Webinar Guriqbal Singh JAIYA, Director-Advisor to the Executive Director, WIPO Academy of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 5:30pm to 7:00pm IST (8:00am to 9:30am EST) Register here. This webinar will address: Differences between copyright, GI, trademark, and costs of certification Business advantages conferred by intellectual property certifications What kinds of handicrafts/handlooms products […]

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Webinar: Social Enterprises in India: Some Guiding Principles for Scale and Impact

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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 from 10:00am — 11:00am, ET

Livelihood Creation Webinar 7:30pm to 8:30pm IST (10:00am to 11:00am ET) Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Please register here. Social Enterprises in India have been increasingly playing a transformative role in solving a number of issues in a sustainable manner. Their contribution is visible in areas as […]

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Windows and Mirrors: Reflecting on Recent Architecture In South Asia

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Sat, Mar 19, 2016 - Sun, Mar 20, 2016, ET

Special Conference Q+A: The state of architecture in India This two-day conference on architecture in South Asia is being held in partnership with the Tata Trusts, The South Asia Institute (SAI) at Harvard University and Vinod & Saryu Doshi Foundation. Renowned architects from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives and India will participate […]

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Field Notes: Best Practices for Documentation of Handicrafts in the Field

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Fri, Feb 19, 2016 from 07:30am — 08:30am, ET

Livelihood Creation Project Webinar Dr. Vandana Bhandari, Professor and Dean (Academics) at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi Indian handicrafts are a vast and important, but rapidly-disappearing aspect of Indian society and culture. While a range of handicraft organizations have been at the forefront of introducing consumers to traditional handicraft techniques and skills in […]

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Rohith Vemula, Death of a Dalit Scholar in Hyderabad

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Wed, Feb 3, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Abha Sur, Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, MIT Banu Subramaniam, Professor,  Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst  Suraj Yengde, Associate, Dept of African and African American Studies, Harvard University  Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Rohith Chakravarti Vemula was an Indian PhD student at the Hyderabad Central University. […]

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Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai

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Thu, Mar 10, 2016 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Film Screening and Discussion Nakul Singh Sawhney, Filmmaker  Chair: Asad Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In September 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a pogrom against local Muslim residents. More than 100 were killed and over 80,000 displaced. This film explores the social, political, and economic […]

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Voters and Foreign Policy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Pakistan

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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Christopher Clary,  Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University In traditional surveys in Pakistan, the vast majority of respondents identify India as an enemy and a serious threat to Pakistan. Do these beliefs affect voter choices? In a novel survey experiment, we […]

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Why Regional Parties? Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System

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Fri, Feb 5, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Adam Ziegfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. […]

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The Crippled Frontier: Screening and discussion on conflicts on the periphery of India

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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Film Screening Pankaj Butalia, Documentary Filmmaker Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School Join filmmaker Pankaj Butalia for a screening of his film “The Textures of Loss,” followed by a discussion […]

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