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SAI Event Topic : Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics



Feyaad Allie — The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India

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Fri, Oct 6, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St

Feyaad Allie is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. In July 2024, he will begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Government. Feyaad’s research broadly focuses on identity, democracy, and representation. His book project studies the causes and consequences of the political inclusion of marginalized groups with a focus on Muslims in India. In other work, Feyaad studies the intersection of technology and politics and the role of religion in intergroup relations. Across his research, he uses large-scale administrative data, original surveys, archival documents, and in-depth interviews during fieldwork.

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Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan

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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.

Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for[…]

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Vineeta Yadav — How Elite Risk Preferences Shape Democracy: Evidence from India and Pakistan

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Fri, Nov 4, 2022 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St

Professor Yadav is an associate professor of political science at Penn State University. She recieved her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2007. Yadav’s research and teaching interests lie in comparative politics, political economy, economic development, and survey research.

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Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi

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Fri, Mar 4, 2022 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

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Webinar

Register to join the Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi talk Neelanjan Sircar is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, and Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. His research interests include Indian political economy and comparative political behavior with an eye to Bayesian statistics, causal inference, social network analysis, and game theory. Mr Sircar’s recent […]

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Political Misinformation in India: Evidence from Experimental Solutions

Register for the talk Dr. Sumitra Badrinathan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. In May 2021, she received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include studying misinformation, media effects and political behavior, with a regional focus on India. Sumitra’s dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of interventions […]

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The Past and Future of India-China Relations

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Fri, Oct 29, 2021 from 10:00am — 12:00pm

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Webinar

Register for the talk Join Kanti Prasad Bajpai, Vijay Gokhal, and Shivshankar Menon, Tanvi Madan and Taylor Fravel to discuss relations between China and India. Speakers: Vijay Gokhale is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India.  Mr. Gokhale retired from the Indian Foreign Service in January 2020 after a diplomatic career that spanned thirty-nine years. […]

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Vaccinating India Against Covid: Lessons from History

Register for the talk Harish Naraindas is professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and honorary professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University. He was adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa (2004-19); joint-appointments professor of the Cluster of Excellence, University of Heidelberg (2008-12); visiting professor at the department […]

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How do Gender Quotas Impact Accountability?

Register for the talk Zuheir Desai is an assistant Professor in the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University. His research focuses on electoral competition and political accountability. His work spans both theoretical models of elections, voting, and policymaking, as well as empirical applications of these models on developing democracies such as Brazil […]

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Representation from Below: How Women Mobilize in India’s Weak Party System

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Fri, Apr 9, 2021 from 11:00am — 12:30pm

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Webinar

Register here to join the webinar. Tanushree Goyal is a fourth and final year PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Goyal is also an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. Starting in Fall 2022, she will join […]

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