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The Importance of Religious and Cultural Literacy in a Cosmopolitan World

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Special Event Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; former Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University Our world is marked by difference. The inability to engage with and understand these differences has led to polarizations, tensions and conflict in many societies. In recent decades, these conflicts […]

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Urbanization in South Asia: Conversations from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America  Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design This panel brings together three urban scholars […]

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Civil Service Reforms in Pakistan

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Tue, Mar 1, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Student Seminar Ashan Iqbal, Minister of Planning, Development, and Reform Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Michael Callen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Pakistani snacks will be served. Cosponsored with the Harvard Pakistan Student Group and the Pakistan Caucus at HKS

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Voters and Foreign Policy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Pakistan

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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Christopher Clary,  Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University In traditional surveys in Pakistan, the vast majority of respondents identify India as an enemy and a serious threat to Pakistan. Do these beliefs affect voter choices? In a novel survey experiment, we […]

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Mental Health in Disaster Response – Local and International Perspectives

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Wed, Dec 16, 2015 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

The Aman Foundation and the Harvard University South Asia Institute have co-sponsored this conference on mental health in the wake of natural and manmade disasters in Pakistan. Coping in the Wake of Disasters: Long term Effects of Traumatic “Life-Changing” Situations Sharmeen Khan, Clinical Psychologist Sharmeen Khan is a Karachi-based mental health professional and a human rights […]

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Beyond the Madrassa: Investigating the Civic Infrastructure of Islamist Groups in an Urban Setting

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Thu, Nov 5, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Laila Bushra, Babar Ali Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Over the last three decades, Islamic educational institutions (madrassas) operating in Pakistan have witnessed a dramatic expansion in their numbers and geographical scope. Being more than simply the breeding grounds for […]

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The Capitals of Postcolonial Pakistan: Urbanism as a discourse of Territorial Selfhood

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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor The University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In the two decades following the creation of Pakistan, the government embarked on a lofty project to establish Muslim nationalism as a two pronged symbol: a […]

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