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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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Fri, Feb 8, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:00pm —
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:15pm
VENUE
Inn at Harvard
ADDRESS
Inn at Harvard
1201 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA
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Mon, May 13, 2013 from 03:00pm — 05:00pm
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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Wed, Feb 20, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm
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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Wed, Apr 4, 2012 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
Conferences and Symposiums, Cultural/Social Events, South Asia Without Borders, _temp, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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
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, Sep 28, 2012 from 12:15pm — 02:30pm
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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Tue, Nov 15, 2011 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
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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Fri, Apr 13, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm
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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Thu, Sep 12, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Can the gender composition of groups managing local forests affect conservation outcomes? This simple question has been little addressed, despite the substantial literature on women’s […]
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Fri, Apr 27, 2012 from 09:00am — 03:00pm
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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