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Cleaning Up India? Obstacles and Assets

WHEN
Mon, Mar 19, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Assa Doron, Australian National University Robin Jeffrey, Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore Chair: Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Harvard UP, 2018) examines national assets and obstacles for achieving a cleaner India. The authors argue that obstacles that appear unique to India […]

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Unravelling the Kashmir Knot

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Mon, Nov 6, 2017 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm

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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

“Unravelling the Kashmir Knot” delves into the questions entangled in the Kashmir issue: Do the rules that created Pakistan make Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) a part of India? Is the routing of the China-Pakistan economic corridor through J&K legal? How did J&K become a “disputed territory”?

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Book Talk: The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization

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Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:00pm

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Harvard Law School

ADDRESS
Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138


VENUE
WCC 2036 Milstein East A/B

The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society

A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk

Speakers:
David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School

Vikramaditya S. Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan School of Law School

Commentator:
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and the Harvard University South Asia Institute.

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Book Talk: India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971

WHEN
Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:15pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

A book talk on India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971 Dr. Arjun Subramaniam, Asia Center Fellow; former Faculty Member, National Defence College, New Delhi; retired Air Vice Marshal, Indian Air Force Chair/Discussant: Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University An Asia Center Fellows Seminar; co-sponsored by the South Asia Institute, […]

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An Evening with Rana Dasgupta

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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm

Cosponsored Event A public reading and discussion with British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta. Rana is a novelist and essayist, and the winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for his novel Solo. He currently lives in Delhi and his nonfiction book Capital constructs an intimate oral history to unfold the possibilities and catastrophes of the city’s elite class. […]

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Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia

WHEN
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
WCC 2009, Harvard Law School

ADDRESS
WCC 2009, Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Book Talk Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Rohit De, Associate Research Scholar in Law, Yale Nick Robinson, Resident Fellow, Center on the Legal Profession Cosponsored with Harvard Law School Although the field of constitutional law has become increasingly comparative in recent years, its geographic focus has remained limited. South Asia, despite […]

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CANCELLED: To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story

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Tue, Nov 10, 2015

This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.  Book Talk Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Environment and Rural Development Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School To The Brink and Back is an account of the events leading to the path-breaking economic liberalisation unveiled by Rao’s government with […]

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The Prisoner

WHEN
Fri, Mar 27, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S354

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Omar Shahid Hamid, Author Chair: Anila Daulatzai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School Omar Shahid Hamid has served with the Karachi police for twelve years, most recently as head of counterterrorism. During his service, he has been actively targeted by various terrorist groups and organizations. He was […]

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Building a new Nepal – After the Quake

WHEN
Mon, May 4, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

SAI Special Event Prashant Jha, Associate Editor, Hindustan Times. Chair: Madhav Khosla, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory, Department of Government, Harvard University On April 25, Nepal was hit by a devastating earthquake. Almost 5000 people have died and the numbers are steadily increasing. The full scale of losses in terms of human casualties, homes destroyed and […]

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Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries

WHEN
Tue, Feb 17, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

SAI Book Talk Sanchita Saxena, Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Berkeley; Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Fauzia Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Miami University; SAI Research Affiliate Chair: John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Professor in Health Policy and […]

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China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

WHEN
Thu, Oct 2, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

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Perkins Room, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Perkins Room
Rubenstein Building
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Luke Patey, Senior Researcher at the Dan­ish Insti­tute for Inter­na­tional Studies Discussants: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Ahmad Al-Mahi, MPA candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Note: Due to heightened security because of visiting dignitaries, please enter the Rubinstein building from the JFK park entrance on October 2. Non-Harvard attendees should contact Rohit Chandra (rchandra@fas.harvard.edu) […]

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The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War

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Tue, Nov 4, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

SAI Book Talk Rohini Mohan, Author V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Author of Love Marriage  Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School Book sale to follow event. For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army […]

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