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Thu, Dec 8, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director Facilitated by Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School and Lecturer on Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the FXB Center at Harvard, co-sponsored in part by SAI
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Fri, Oct 28, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India Abha Sur, Lecturer, Program in Women’s & Gender Studies, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies
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Tue, Nov 15, 2011 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm
India by Song, a film by Vijay Singh A Special Film Screening Event Vijay Singh, Film Director Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor Department of South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Harvard University
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Fri, Mar 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Preserving the Buddha’s Teachings by Policing the Self: Moral Reform and Community in Colonial Burma Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Alicia Turner, York University Watch the video here.
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Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Faith, Loyalty, Status: Mughal-era Perspectives on Elite Rajput Conversions to Islam Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Ramya Srinivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies.
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Fri, Apr 20, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Centers of Law: Duties, Rights and Jurisdictional Pluralism in Medieval India Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Donald A. Davis, Jr., Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm
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 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Mon, Nov 26, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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 30, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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