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Thu, Sep 21, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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Danish Husain is a poet, actor, filmmaker and theatre director – he is one of the people who have helped revive the lost art form of Urdu storytelling, Dastangoi, and is a columnist with India Today’s opinion website Daily O.
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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Join us for a screening of Deepa Mehta’s acclaimed film Water (2005; 115 min.), part of the Elements trilogy. Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the […]
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Sat, Aug 26, 2017 - Sun, Jan 7, 2018, ET
Drawn from the Harvard Art Museums’ renowned South Asian art collection, this University Teaching Gallery installation complements an undergraduate course exploring images of women in South Asian art.
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Arts Seminar Madhu Das, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Susan Bean, Independent Scholar and Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies Madhu Das is a multi-disciplinary Visual Artist based in Mumbai, India; his artistic practice is primarily concerned with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that […]
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Arts Seminar Rabindra Shrestha, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Rabindra Shrestha is a Nepalese visual artist. Installation, detail pen and ink drawing, painting, traditional painting (Paubha), illustration, cartoon, and ceramic art are the different mediums of his visuals expressions. Most of his art […]
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Arts Seminar Komal Shahid Khan, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Susan S. Bean, Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies; Board Member, Textile Society of America; Associate, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Senior Curator for South Asian and Korean Art. Peabody Essex Museum Starting with an introduction and practices which lead to […]
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Arts Seminar Meenakshi Sengupta, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, South and Southeast Asian Art, Harvard University This talk will focus on the celebration of womanhood and how Sengupta comes to this work. Boys don’t cry is a title of her recent drawing […]
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Wed, Apr 13, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Art Seminar Milan Rai, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Art Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Rai’s White Butterfly project was a personal art installation that has grown with a global outreach for different community causes and concerns. It is a demonstration of how the role of art can […]
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Arts Seminar Paribartana Mohanty, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Namita Dharia, Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences The lecture-performance is part of Mohanty’s larger project ‘Act the Victim’ that engages with the images of crisis circulating on social media. It is based on a video excerpt of TV interview of Narendra […]
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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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