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Fri, Sep 7, 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, 1955 Raj Kapoor stars as country bumpkin Raju, who arrives in the big city to make his fortune and woos honest schoolteacher Vidya (Nargis) while secretly getting deeper and deeper into the urban underworld.
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Tue, Sep 4, 2012 from 05:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
MAPPING MUMBAI’S TOILETS Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design James Potter, Master’s Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Jennifer Weaver, Master’s Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Chair: Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public […]
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Thu, Aug 9, 2012 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Directed by Shoaib Mansoor, Pakistan A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.
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Directed by Marc Forster, United States Amir returns to Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, […]
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Mon, Jul 30, 2012 - Fri, Aug 3, 2012, ET
From July 30 to August 3, the South Asia Initiative (SAI) at Harvard University hosted a “Multidisciplinary Approach to University Leadership Development” Workshop for university leaders from Maharashtra, India. Thirty leaders and policy makers attended, including vice chancellors, directors, principals and deans of both public and private higher learning institutions, as well as senior Government […]
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Thu, May 3, 2012 from 01:00pm — 03:00pm, ET
RELIGION, MEANING AND BELIEF IN MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETIES “Social Justice in Islamicate South Asia: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Struggle” Sadaf Jaffer, Doctoral Candidate in the Indo-Muslim Culture program at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations “Producing Islam – Belief, Practice, & Politics at an Islamic Seminary (Madrasa) in Pakistan” Bilal A. […]
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Fri, Apr 27, 2012 from 09:00am — 03:00pm, ET
Keynote Speaker: Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University Co-sponsored event with Educators for Teaching India (EFTI)
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Thu, Apr 26, 2012 from 09:00am — 05:00am, ET
Health in South Asia: Lessons for and from the World On April 26th and 27th, South Asia Initiative at Harvard University held its second annual symposium, focusing on Health in South Asia: Lessons for and from the World. The conference brought together global experts with deep research, implementation and policy experience to learn and find […]
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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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Wed, Apr 18, 2012 from 08:00am — 05:00pm, ET
Mega-Cities, the Urban Poor and the Price of Planning: The Case of Slum Upgrading in Indian Cities Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Janice Perlman, Founder & President of the Mega-Cities Project Co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design Watch the video below:
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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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Fri, Apr 13, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Member of Faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School Chair: Hitesh Hathi, Producer, Here and Now, WBUR Co-sponsored by Lowell House and the Department of South Asian Studies
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