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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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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