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Mon, May 13, 2013 from 03:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
The South Asia Institute and Department of South Asian Studies will host the 5th Anniversary Meeting of South Asian Poets of New England and 17th Annual India Poetry Reading on May 12, 2013 at 3:00pm. The theme of this year’s poetry reading will be “Healing,” and poems in all languages are invited for recitation. Individuals […]
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Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:15pm, ET
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Fri, Mar 29, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Extraordinary Law at the Colonial Frontier: Notes on the East India Company Archive Bhavani Raman, Assistant Professor of History; David L. Rike University Preceptor in History; Princeton University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard […]
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Wed, Feb 20, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
Sexual Assault and Gender Violence in South Asia: What Can We Learn from the Delhi Rape Incident? Featuring a Student Panel Discussion withNur Nasreen Ibrahim (College); Abbas Jaffer (GSAS); Mariam Chughtai (HGSE); Litcy Kurisinkal (HKS); and Sabrin Chowdhury (HKS). Chair: Jackie Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, University Advisor on Human Rights, University […]
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Fri, Feb 8, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW – To be rescheduled! History Off Center: Writing from the Margins of Empire Allison Busch, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University The historiography of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) […]
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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Authority, Action, Criticism: Gandhi and Constructive Satyagraha Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies What is the structure of criticism embedded in Gandhian forms of action? The lecture considers the ways in which action and criticism can be […]
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Fri, Nov 30, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Theologies of Migrant Workers in Delhi Shankar Ramaswami, Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Mon, Nov 26, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Naxalism and Orissa: Divergent Conflicts, Political Economy, and Minoritization Angana Chatterji, Co-chair, Research Project on Armed Conflict and People’s Rights, Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, University of California at Berkeley Neat and Laundered Middle Classes and Third Gender Nepal Communist party-United Marxist Leninist: Masculinity and Politics in Contemporary Nepal Sanjeev Uprety, Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu; […]
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Fri, Nov 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Vernacular Political Economy in Colonial Bengal Andrew Sartori, Associate Professor of History, New York University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Bengali agrarian politics of the late colonial period turned to a very great extent on debates over property. To make sense of the emergence […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Beyond Sri Lanka’s War Against Terror: The Struggle for Sri Lanka’s Democracy Saliya Pieris, Attorney-at-Law, Chairman CFPS School of Law, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2012 Eisenhower Fellow Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School This talk will explain how developments in Sri Lanka, including the authoritarian executive Presidential Constitution in 1978, the war with the […]
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1965 Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Vivek Bald is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. […]
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Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00pm, ET
South Asia: The World’s Laboratory A special SAI event in New York City. Inquire for details:sainit@fas.harvard.edu Home to nearly a sixth of humanity, the birthplace of many of the world’s great religions and philosophies, and now a hotbed for innovation and technological change, South Asia is truly the world’s laboratory, a space where we can […]
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