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Thu, Mar 10, 2016 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Film Screening and Discussion Nakul Singh Sawhney, Filmmaker Chair: Asad Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In September 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a pogrom against local Muslim residents. More than 100 were killed and over 80,000 displaced. This film explores the social, political, and economic […]
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Modern Asia Seminar and Arts at SAI Seminar Ian Holliday,Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong ‘Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of transition,’ an exhibit of paintings will be on display Thursday, February 4 – Monday, February 22, 2016 in the Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge […]
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Arts at SAI Seminar Devdutt Pattanaik, Author, Mythologist, Artist (@devduttmyth) Chair: Gokul Madhavan, Preceptor in Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Can you imagine a cross-dressing God? Hindus can, and have, for over a thousand years. Did this express a universal social reality or was this a highly refined metaphor for a few remains a matter […]
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Wed, Dec 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Arts Seminar Basir Mahmood, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Basir Mahmood, recipient of South Asia Institute 2015 Emerging Artist Award, will be offering insights […]
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Arts Seminar Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Chitra Venkataramani, South Asian Studies Fellow, South Asia Institute Kandalgaonkar’s art practice focuses primarily on unseen or ignored processes of urbanization. In his work, he draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document, represent and critique urban flows. cityinflux is the name of his practice […]
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Mon, Apr 13, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Arts Initiative and Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Rohail Hyatt, Producer, Coke Studio; actor; film composer; rock music artist; and keyboardist Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Hyatt will discuss the laws of nature in contrast to the current […]
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SAI Special Event Tanvi Madan, PhD Fellow, Foreign Policy Director, The India Project The Brookings Institution Shivshankar Menon, Former Indian NSA and Foreign Secretary Chair: Nicholas Burns, Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Cosponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the WCFIA Fellows Program. Supported by the Hindustan Times and the South […]
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Mon, Mar 9, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Student Event Rahul Bose, Actor, Director & Social Activist Chair: Richard Delacy, Preceptor in Hindi and Urdu, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Welcome by Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College Described as the ‘Indian art house icon’ by TIME magazine, Rahul Bose won Best Actor, Singapore Film Festival, and Best Debut Director (second prize), for ‘Everybody […]
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Due to weather and the University closing, this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. SAI Arts Initiative Event Exhibition Reception and Personal Tour at 5:30PM in the CGIS South Second Floor Lobby, followed by a panel discussion at 6:30PM CGIS S010. What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion […]
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Sat, Jan 31, 2015
SAI Photo Exhibit On Display in the CGIS South Concourse from Nov. 5, 2014 – Jan. 31, 2015. Open Mondays-Thursdays 7am – 9pm; Fridays 7am – 7pm Capturing South Asia: Interview with Pablo Bartholomew Coded Elegance, by Pablo Bartholomew, is a series of ethno-anthropological photographs of tribes and people of the hills and valleys of Arunachal […]
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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 05:15pm — 06:30pm, ET
Arts Lecture and Opening Reception for ‘Coded Elegance’ Photographer Pablo Bartholomew, whose career spans over 40 years, introspects on his personal collection of historical photographs as well as works by other photographers from the pre and post-Independence era, rounding off by elaborating on contemporary practices. This visual walkthrough consists of photographic work that has marked and influenced him. […]
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SAI Arts Initiative Seminar Pablo Bartholomew, Photojournalist Discussant: Bridget Corbett Hanna, Post-Doc, Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide Factory, now owned by Dow Chemicals, caused the death of thousands of inhabitants of Bhopal and incapacitated the living who have […]
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