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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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More InfoThe 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
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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Mon, Apr 1, 2013 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET
Education as a Marketplace: What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Research on Pakistan’s Education Sector Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Professor of International Finance and Development. Faculty chair of the MPA/ID program, Harvard Kennedy School Mariam Chughtai, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education In the fourth and final Video […]
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Thu, Oct 27, 2011 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Public Health Messaging Chair: David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics Panelists: Marc Mitchell, Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health The Use of Mobile Technology to improve Health Care in South Africa Glorian Sorensen, Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Tobacco Cessation of Indian School Teachers and Manufacturing […]
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Mon, Apr 9, 2012 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
Diasporas, Investments, and Development in South Asia and Beyond Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College; Research Fellow, TheWeatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University Joel Trachtman, Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Paul Vaaler, Associate Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & […]
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