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Fri, Sep 28, 2012 from 12:15pm — 02:30pm, ET
Case Studies from India Professor William S. Sax, Chair of Ethnology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University “Possession” by gods and spirits is often accompanied by an ideology of absence, according to which those “possessed” have no memory of what they experienced or said during their trance. Yet many aspects of such events seem to contradict this […]
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Fri, Apr 27, 2012 from 09:00am — 03:00pm, ET
Keynote Speaker: Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University Co-sponsored event with Educators for Teaching India (EFTI)
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Fri, Apr 20, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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, Apr 13, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Member of Faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School Chair: Hitesh Hathi, Producer, Here and Now, WBUR Co-sponsored by Lowell House and the Department of South Asian Studies
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Wed, Apr 4, 2012 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Moderated by: Dr. Bruce Chabner, Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Research, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Panelists: Dr. Joel Katz, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dr. Elizabeth Gaufberg, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Exhibiting artists and panelists include: Kyle Lindholm, Vandana Sharma, Dr. George Taylor, […]
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Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 06:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
Welcome remarks: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Moderated by: Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Panelists and exhibitors: Visual Arts: Pragati Sharma, Jyoti Joshi, Don Perrault, and Sunanda Sahay Music: Warren Senders Dance: Ranjani Saigal Reception, exhibition viewing, and live folk art […]
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Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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Mon, Mar 19, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University The scholarship on post-conflict resolution is growing and the new questions and discourses on peacemaking forefront […]
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Mon, Mar 5, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
The Harvard University Asia Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University present a forum on The United States in Asia: Five Media Perspectives With the participation of Nieman Fellows from Asia Moderated by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor […]
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Fri, Mar 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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Thu, Dec 8, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
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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Tue, Nov 15, 2011 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
Sponsored by the Harvard International Negotiation Project (HINP), co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative, Harvard Global Health Institute, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School A Guest Lecture by: Her Excellency Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – Former President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005) Opening Remarks by Daniel Shapiro, Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program For over two […]
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