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SAI Event Topic : Book Talks and Films

Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century | Book Discussion

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Wed, Feb 21, 2024 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm

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India International Centre, Annexe, New Delhi, and online on Zoom

sugata bose book discussion

Organized by the Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, the session will host a conversation around Prof. Sugata Bose’s new book Asia after Europe – Imagining A Continent in the Long Twentieth Century. The talk will be moderated by Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

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Afghan Film Screening and Discussion: “A Letter to the President”

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Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 05:30pm

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Carpenter Center Theater (24 Quincy Street)

Released in 2017 by Afghanistan’s Roya Sadat, one of the country’s leading female directors, “A Letter to the President” explores the difficulty Afghan women face when pursuing justice, and is a testament to the country’s once-flourishing cinema scene in the period between Taliban rule.

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Book Talk with Lila Bhan and Siddharth Kak

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Fri, Oct 20, 2023 from 11:00am — 12:00pm

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Online on Zoom

The Mittal Institute brings to you a book discussion on ‘Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir’s Last Pandit Prime Minister and his English Wife’ with authors Lila Bhan and Siddharth Kak, and moderated by Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University. Register here! Date and Time: Friday, October […]

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Book Talk: “Making Meritocracy – Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present”

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Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:30pm

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Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South

What can India and China, the world’s most populous countries, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, philosophically, and in practice. India and China […]

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Book Talk: “Violent Modernities – Cultural Lives of Law in the New India”

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Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:30am

Register for this talk via zoom   Speaker Oishik Sircar, Professor, Jindal Global Law School Discussants Faizan Jawed Siddiqi, Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Mini Saxena, Lawyer; Harvard Law School LLM Candidate, ’22 Chair Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University; Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, […]

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Film Screening and Discussion: Two Poets and a River

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Wed, Mar 23, 2022 - Tue, Mar 29, 2022

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5 p.m. EST (Run time: 2h 4 m) In-person Film Screening | Free and open to public   Thursday, March 24-Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Online Film Screening To receive information to watch the film, sign up here: https://forms.gle/8SVCQtUFSDJYf7ke7.   Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 12:00 p.m. EST Panel Discussion with the Filmmaker Respondents: […]

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Book Talk: “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History”

Register for the “Phantom Plague” Book Talk On World Tuberculosis Day, this panel will discuss the history of the spread of tuberculosis, particularly among the most vulnerable populations across the globe, and lessons to be learned from historical public health crises and failures. Vidya Krishnan, Author and Journalist Discussant: Madhukar Pai, Canada Research Chair in […]

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The Kinetic City & Other Essays

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Mon, Nov 29, 2021 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm

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Webinar

Register for the talk The Kinetic City (ArchiTangle, 2021) presents Rahul Mehrotra’s writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. This work has given rise to a new conceptualization of the city. Mehrotra calls it the Kinetic City, a counterpoint to the Static City, as […]

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India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present

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Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:00am

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Webinar

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project, the Center for Public Leadership, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University for a conversation with Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Advisor and Foreign Secretary of India, about his new book on India’s foreign policy entitled India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present. Mr. Menon […]

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Breaking the Mould: Girl Power and Beyond in Contemporary India

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Tue, Jan 14, 2020 from 03:00pm — 06:00pm

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KC College Auditorium, Churchgate, Mumbai, India

Jacqueline Bhabha (Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health) will be in conversation with Neha J Hiranandani to discuss her book Girl Power: Indian Women Who Broke the Rules. The discussion will focus on the challenges young women still face when it comes to access to education and health while negotiating with the societal expectations. […]

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Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata Book Talk

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm

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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Speaker: Karthika Naïr, Author and Poet Moderator: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University In Until the Lions, Karthika Naïr retells the Mahabharata through the embodied voices of women and marginal characters, so often conquered and destroyed throughout history. She captures the richness and complexity of the Mahabharata, while illuminating lives buried […]

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