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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

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Thu, Sep 27, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Muslim Devotional Art in India Yousuf Saeed, Independent Researcher and Filmmaker Based in Delhi, India Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Yousuf Saeed reads and illustrates from his new book Muslim Devotional Art in India. The presentation will conclude with a musical video “The Train […]

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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar

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Mon, Mar 11, 2013 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

The Cost of Condemnation: Heresy and Takfir in a South Indian Community Brian Didier, History Department Head, Winsor School Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed […]

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Meera Nam Joker (My Name Is Joker)

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Sat, Sep 15, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET

RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1970 Kapoor’s legendary film maudit, about a mopey, love-obsessed clown and his three pathetically failed love affairs is a compulsively watchable, astonishing train wreck of a film.

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Knowledge Exchange Platform: Frontiers in Neuroscience

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Sat, Jun 29, 2013 from 11:30am — 07:00pm, ET

Join Venkatesh Murthy, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Pawan Sinha, Professor of Vision & Computational Neuroscience, MIT, and speakers from industry, government and business for a day long conference on the landscape of neuroscience, as part of this summer’s Resonance Knowledge Exchange platform on focused on building research and business for the […]

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Jagte Raho (Stay Awake)

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Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:30pm, ET

RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1956 A Chaplinesque tramp gets more than he bargained for when he wanders into a luxury apartment building in search of a glass of water.

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Indian Democracy: Prospects and Challenges

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Tue, May 7, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Chair: Prerna Singh, Assistant Professor at the Department of Government,Harvard University Professor Yogendra Yadav is an Indian social scientist. He was appointed as a member of the National Advisory Council for the implementation of the Right to Education Act in 2010. He was appointed […]

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India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism

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Thu, Sep 19, 2013 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET

Harvard South Asia Institute Book Talk Arndt Michael, University of Freiburg Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Winner of the Association of Third World Studies’ Cecil B. Currey Book Award and the German-Indo Society’s Gisela Bonn Award 2013 “Arndt Michael, India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism (UK: Palgrave, MacMillan, 2013). It […]

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If Women Governed Forests: A History of Absence, The Impact of Presence

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Thu, Sep 12, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School   Can the gender composition of groups managing local forests affect conservation outcomes? This simple question has been little addressed, despite the substantial literature on women’s […]

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