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Tue, Apr 14, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Speaker: Prem Chandavarkar, Managing Partner, CnT Architects. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is necessary to distinguish between ‘civic space’ and ‘public space’: the former must embrace inter-personal engagement, whereas the latter need not go […]
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Thu, Apr 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Updated location: CGIS South S153 Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Asian Studies Program; Affiliated Faculty, Islamic Studies Program; Co-Director Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt University. Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal […]
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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Speaker: Maristella Casciato, Associate Director, Research – Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. The lecture Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges sheds light on the complex processes of decolonization after […]
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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Anna B. Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, North Carolina State University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Sufi tomb shrines in India are well-known for […]
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Wed, Mar 25, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
SAI Special Event Tanvi Madan, PhD Fellow, Foreign Policy Director, The India Project The Brookings Institution Shivshankar Menon, Former Indian NSA and Foreign Secretary Chair: Nicholas Burns, Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Cosponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the WCFIA Fellows Program. Supported by the Hindustan Times and the South […]
More InfoA one day seminar to explore new developments in curriculum development and implementation by state, civil, and the academic community. Participation by invitation only. Hosted by Harvard South Asia Institute Gender Violence Project, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University and Population Foundation of India. More about the Harvard Gender Violence Project.
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Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 06:00pm, ET
Dinyar Patel, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University, SAI Graduate Associate Today, Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) is primarily identified as an early economic thinker, a leader of the moderate wing of the Congress, and the first Indian elected to the British Parliament. This standard school textbook description, however, does little justice to the “Grand Old Man of India,” […]
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Tue, Dec 9, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
This is an orientation for students who are traveling to South Asia during Winter Session 2015, and will include travel tips and logistics, health and safety information, cultural introduction, and will provide an opportunity to meet other students who will be in the region. Food will be served! All Harvard Students traveling to South Asia […]
More InfoSAI Photo Exhibit On Display in the CGIS South Concourse from Nov. 5, 2014 – Jan. 31, 2015. Open Mondays-Thursdays 7am – 9pm; Fridays 7am – 7pm Capturing South Asia: Interview with Pablo Bartholomew Coded Elegance, by Pablo Bartholomew, is a series of ethno-anthropological photographs of tribes and people of the hills and valleys of Arunachal […]
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Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:00pm, ET
Join IndiaGSD for an illustrated lecture looking at projects in the realm of culture and heritage interpreted through an effective scenography. Siddhartha Das (designer – scenographer, New Delhi) will present his own projects including those for the historic Jal Mahal, Jaipur; an art museum complex, J D Centre of Art, Bhubaneswar;Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum Rietberg, […]
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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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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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