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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology, JNU, Delhi Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This paper focuses upon new urban developments in India and suggests that an ethnographic account of this context provides fruitful […]
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Thu, Apr 7, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
This event has been cancelled. South Asia Without Borders Seminar Jan Breman, Professor, SOAS, University of London Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Thu, Mar 31, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Umar Saif, Chairman, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB); Vice Chancellor, ITU Chair: Karim R. Lakhani, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Pakistan is the 6th largest country in the world by population. Over half of the population lives below $2 poverty line; 40% of the adult population is unable to read or […]
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Tue, Mar 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Dr. Yaaminey Mubayi, Culture and Community Development Chair: Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Water as an essential resource for the evolution of human settlements throughout history, has thus far escaped the attention of scholars of history in South Asia. Contemporary research relating to the subject largely […]
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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Priyasha Saksena, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School; SAI Graduate Student Associate Chair: Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk focuses on jurisdictional disputes between the Indian princely states and the British Government in late nineteenth-century South Asia to flesh out both the role played by international law in the definition […]
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Wed, Feb 3, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Abha Sur, Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, MIT Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst Suraj Yengde, Associate, Dept of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Rohith Chakravarti Vemula was an Indian PhD student at the Hyderabad Central University. […]
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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Javed Younas, Aman Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School The aid allocation literature reveals a negative association between the recipients’ income and aid inflows, implying that, all else equal, poorer nations receive more aid. This literature has assumed that two […]
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Thu, Nov 5, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Laila Bushra, Babar Ali Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Over the last three decades, Islamic educational institutions (madrassas) operating in Pakistan have witnessed a dramatic expansion in their numbers and geographical scope. Being more than simply the breeding grounds for […]
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Wed, Oct 28, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Harvard/MIT Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samia Khatun, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne Discussant: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Australian deserts today are dotted with the remains of 19th century mosques. Built by South Asian merchants and workers in the era of the Australian camel trade, 1860 – 1930, these […]
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Wed, Sep 30, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
GSA Seminar Mou Banerjee, Graduate Student Associate, SAI; History PhD, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Mou’s research explores the dialogues and debates of Indian intellectuals with evangelical Protestant Christianity and missionaries in the nineteenth century, especially in the Bengal Presidency in India. In her analysis […]
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Fri, May 1, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
SAI South Asia Without Borders Seminar Chandan Gowda, Professor of Sociology, Azim Premji University Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Kuvempu (1904-1994), the famous Kannada literary figure, observed, “The Veda is an unfinished book.” Influenced by the vedantic […]
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Fri, May 1, 2015 from 01:00pm — 02:30pm, ET
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic of India Chair: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Montek Singh Ahluwalia is the former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for India. For his outstanding contribution to economic policy and public service, he was conferred the prestigious ‘Padma Vibhushan’ by the President […]
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