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Tue, Nov 27, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Nadeem Hussain, Founder, President and CEO, Tameer Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Pakistan Nadeem Hussain will discuss the financial revolution which the Tameer Bank is bringing to Pakistan by financially empowering people at the grassroots level, including innovative work such as branchless banking and solar energy. Discussant: Professor Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Nasim Zehra, […]
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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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Tue, Apr 17, 2012 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Pakistani music icon and social activist, Shehzad Roy will talk about his new documentary series titled “Chal Parha.”The show dramatizes Roy’s journey to schools across Pakistan and stages and expose of Pakistan’s national education system. Roy will share how his music has helped him advocate for education reform and will expand upon some of the […]
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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, Jul 11, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
DAIRA (“Circle”) is a 2002 Pakistani movie based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, DAIRA is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled.” It is a story of the vicious circle of love, lust, longing, and […]
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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, 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, 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) […]
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Wed, Oct 5, 2011 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker Chair: Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Fredric Werthham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Divinity, Harvard University Video of her lecture can be found here.
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Wed, Mar 6, 2013 from 08:30am — 11:00am, ET
Seminars, Student Event, Education, Social Enterprise, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Innovation in Education: Lessons for Entrepreneurship in Pakistan Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy Imran Sarwar, Co-Founder, Rabtt; MPP Class of 2013, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Seminar Report: The third Video Conference of the new SAI Series of Webinars focused on ‘Innovation in Education: Lessons for […]
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