Liaquat Channa is an educational linguist and interested in areas such as language and education, hidden curriculum and language textbooks,and, English as a/the medium of instruction explored through qualitative and mixed methods approaches in postcolonial contexts in general and Pakistan in particular.
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Thu, Nov 21, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Speaker: Naveen Bharathi, Mittal Institute Raghunathan Family Fellow, 2019-2020 Moderator: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design This presentation will show how residential caste-segregation is independent of city size, using the first-ever large-scale evidence of neighborhood-resolution data from 147 of the largest cities in contemporary India. Bharathi will discuss one […]
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Wed, Jun 5, 2019 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
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India International Centre
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India International Centre
#40, Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate
Delhi, India
In this talk, Roluahpuia, the Mittal Institute’s 2018-19 Raghunathan Family Fellow, will explore how and why politics among the Mizos continue to remain nationalistic in India and how to understand this phenomenon in contemporary India. This discussion will be moderated by Virginius Xaxa, Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development.
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Wed, Feb 27, 2019 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Roluahpuia, the Mittal Institute’s Raghunathan Family Fellow, will discuss his research into the relationship between orality and nationalism at two levels through the lens of the Mizo case in northeast India. The first level surrounds the process of creating a vernacular language, involving the reframing and reconstruction of nationalist ideas. The second is the irrepressibility […]
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Mon, Apr 23, 2018 from 12:00pm — 01:00pm
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Room T401
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Darman Room, Center for Public Leadership, Taubman Building (1st Floor), Harvard Kennedy School
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Darman Room
Center for Public Leadership
Taubman Building (1st Floor)
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Can mobile money help the rural poor become more resilient to climate change shocks? Imtiaz ul Haq presents new evidence using satellite data from the world’s most successful mobile money market, Kenya, and discusses how the findings translate to South Asia. Imtiaz ul Haq, Aman Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor Of Economics At The Lahore University […]
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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm
The panel will discuss conceptions of “citizenship” in India as related to caste and indigeneity. The discussion will be an opportunity to explore the ways that citizenship and belonging have been constructed through exclusion and marginalization based on social, political, and ethnic lines. Rajyashri Goody, Visiting Artist, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University Suraj […]
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Thu, Mar 29, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Ziipao posits that road building has always been an act of power, which has at different times been leveraged to smooth relationships, secure borders, (dis)connect people, enable trade, create spaces of contestation, or dilute boundaries between varied ethnic groups.
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