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South Asia Week 2015: Ambassador Husain Haqqani – Pakistan and US: Dealing with Divergent Interests?

WHEN
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 from 08:30am — 10:00am

VENUE
Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
Taubman Building
79 John F. Kennedy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

Ambassador Husain Haqqani examines the tenuous relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan in a seminar co-sponsored by the India and South Asia Program. A Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia, Ambassador Husain Haqqani served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from 2008-2011 and is widely credited with managing a difficult partnership during […]

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South Asia Week 2015: A Moment of Opportunity for U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan

WHEN
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 4th Floor

ADDRESS
Malkin Penthouse
Littauer Building 4th Floor
Harvard Kennedy School

Ambassador Daniel Feldman, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, discusses U.S. engagement in the region in a seminar co-sponsored by the India and South Asia Program and the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University. Daniel F. Feldman is the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) with the personal rank of Ambassador. He has served […]

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South Asia Week 2015: Afghanistan – Covering America’s Longest War

WHEN
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 from 02:30pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 4th Floor

ADDRESS
Malkin Penthouse
Littauer Building 4th Floor
Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School Alumnus Sean Carberry, recently-returned Kabul Bureau Chief for NPR, discusses covering America’s longest war with Anand Gopal, author of “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes,” in conversation with Future of Diplomacy Project Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver, in a seminar co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center. Sean Carberry was most […]

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South Asia Week 2015: Ambassador Jalil Jilani on US-Pakistan relations

WHEN
Fri, Apr 24, 2015 from 02:30pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
Taubman Building
79 John F. Kennedy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

In this first public event of the Future of Diplomacy Project’s annual South Asia Week Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani discusses his country’s relationship with the United States and regional powers in a talk moderated by South Asia Institute Director, Professor Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School. Ambassador Jilani assumed his responsibilities as Ambassador of Pakistan on January 2, […]

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Summer in South Asia: Pre-Departure Orientation

WHEN
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

This is an orientation for students who are traveling to South Asia in summer 2015, and will include travel tips and logistics, health and safety information, cultural introduction, and will provide an opportunity to meet other students who will be in the region. Food will be served! All Harvard Students traveling to South Asia in […]

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India’s National Security Calculus

WHEN
Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:00pm

VENUE
Harvard Faculty Club

ADDRESS
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

A lecture by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India The South Asian Politics seminar series is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the MIT Center for International Studies Free and open to […]

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The Ephemeral City: Looking at Temporary Landscape of Religion in South Asia and Latin America

WHEN
Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion about urbanism globally? Professor Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of  the Department of Urban Planing and Design (GSD), will moderate a conversation across disciplines about ephemerality in the landscapes of South Asian and Latin American cities.  The panel will feature Harvard scholars Felipe Hernandez (GSD), Marianne […]

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India’s Prospects and Policy Challenges

WHEN
Fri, May 1, 2015 from 01:00pm — 02:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

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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Digital Archives and Public History: Documenting and Exhibiting South Asian American Stories

WHEN
Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI and MIT-India present: Lecture Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samip Mallick, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive Pawan Dhingra, Founding Curator of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation Professor and Director, Department of Sociology, Tufts University Moderated by Vivek Bald, 2014-15 Harvard University Charles […]

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