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SAI Event Topic : Book Talks and Films

Summer Film Series: Guide

WHEN
Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

(India, 1966) After being released from prison for Forgery and Theft, Multi-linguist Raju (Dev Anand) reflects on his life as a Guide; his meeting with the daughter of a prostitute, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who was unhappily married to Marco (Kishore Sahu), and wants to take up acting and dancing as a career. Rosie separates and […]

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Summer Film Series: Promise Land

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Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

With immigration as a central theme, Promise Land‘s three stories effortlessly intertwine in a gripping tale of love, conflict, and hope. These compelling narratives reveal the unique challenges and triumphs of the characters as they struggle to keep their families together and pursue their dreams in a place they have come to call home. Director […]

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Coolie Woman/Bengali Harlem: New Histories of the South Asian Diaspora

WHEN
Wed, Apr 16, 2014 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm

VENUE
MIT, Building E51 Room 325

ADDRESS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E51 Room 325
Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets
Cambridge, MA

A Reading and Discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur & Vivek Bald Moderated by Walter Johnson Inaugurating “South Asia and Its Diasporas” A new event/lecture series co-sponsored by  MIT-India & SAI Join the Facebook event. In 1903, a young woman named Sujaria and a young man named Abdul Aziz left the port of Calcutta in separate ships, sailing […]

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The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India

WHEN
Mon, May 5, 2014 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Chair: Emma Dench, Professor of the Classics and of History, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of the Classics, Harvard University The claim, often made, that India—uniquely among civilizations—lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according […]

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Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

WHEN
Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S354

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Jeffrey Witsoe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Union College Discussant: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, […]

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Global Literature Book Group: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 from 07:00pm — 08:00pm

Discussant: Shankar Ramaswami, South Asia Institute South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Join the Harvard Global Health Institute and the South Asia Institute in a live webinar discussion for K-12 educators of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, […]

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Film Preview: Rehaai

WHEN
Tue, Mar 25, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Film Screening: 4:00PM – 4:30PM; Q&A with Director: 4:30PM – 5:30PM Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation  Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School Kashf Foundation is the one of the leading micro-finance providers in Pakistan, with special outreach to women headed businesses. Rehaii, is […]

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Shamans of the Blind Country

WHEN
Tue, Apr 15, 2014 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S010

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

SAI Film Screening Part 1: April 14, 5:30 PM, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Part 2: April 15, 6:00 PM, Lecture Hall, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Michael Oppitz, Professor emeritus of ethnography, University of Zurich & former director of the Ethnographic Museum Chair:Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art […]

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Gandhi Before India

WHEN
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:00pm

VENUE
Harvard Book Store

ADDRESS
Harvard Book Store
1256 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Ramachandra Guha, Author and Independent Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of the Centre for Policy Research; Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Book Store Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author RAMACHANDRA GUHA and President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, PRATAP BHANU MEHTA for a discussion of Guha’s new book Gandhi Before India. […]

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Mangoes, Alice and the Missing Baloch: A conversation with Pakistani writer and journalist Mohammed Hanif

WHEN
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

South Asia Institute Book Talk Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer and journalist Abhijit Banerjee,  Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT A book sale will follow the event.   

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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

WHEN
Mon, Mar 10, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm

VENUE
Thompson Room
Barker Center

ADDRESS
Thompson Room
Barker Center
12 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Husain Haqqani, Director of the Center of International Relations; Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Shuja Nawaz, Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council  Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance […]

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The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World

WHEN
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

SAI Book Talk T.V Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, McGill University Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global […]

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