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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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Sat, Apr 13, 2013 from 09:00am — 05:00pm, ET
Swaniti Initiative, with the strong support of Harvard University’s South Asia Institute, held its inaugural Kavya Conference on April 13, 2013, at Welingkar School of Management (WeSchool) in Mumbai. The day-long, seminar-style program was targeted towards inspiring, engaging and empowering young women from across the country to participate in policy and in social development of […]
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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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Thu, Aug 1, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
Dor (“String”), a 2006 Indian film, is a story about two women who come from different backgrounds and how fate brings them together. Meera, a young woman who becomes a widow shortly after marriage, is trapped by tradition. Zeenat faces the daunting task of saving the life of her husband, who is on trial for murder. […]
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Fri, Oct 28, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India Abha Sur, Lecturer, Program in Women’s & Gender Studies, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies
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Tue, Nov 15, 2011 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
India by Song, a film by Vijay Singh A Special Film Screening Event Vijay Singh, Film Director Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor Department of South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Harvard University
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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.
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Fri, Apr 20, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Centers of Law: Duties, Rights and Jurisdictional Pluralism in Medieval India Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Donald A. Davis, Jr., Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Fri, Nov 30, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Theologies of Migrant Workers in Delhi Shankar Ramaswami, Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Authority, Action, Criticism: Gandhi and Constructive Satyagraha Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies What is the structure of criticism embedded in Gandhian forms of action? The lecture considers the ways in which action and criticism can be […]
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