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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
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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Mon, Nov 16, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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 […]
More InfoThis 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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Mon, May 4, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
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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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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Tue, Feb 17, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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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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SAI Book Talk Jocelyne Cesari, Senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Visiting Associate professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University; Director of Islam in the West, Harvard University Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In this book, Jocelyne Cesari explores the relationship between modernization, politics, […]
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Thu, Oct 2, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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SAI Book Talk Ramachandra Guha, Author and Independent Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of the Centre for Policy Research; Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Book Store Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author RAMACHANDRA GUHA and President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, PRATAP BHANU MEHTA for a discussion of Guha’s new book Gandhi Before India. […]
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SAI Book Talk T.V Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, McGill University Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global […]
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A Reading and Discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur & Vivek Bald Moderated by Walter Johnson Inaugurating “South Asia and Its Diasporas” A new event/lecture series co-sponsored by MIT-India & SAI Join the Facebook event. In 1903, a young woman named Sujaria and a young man named Abdul Aziz left the port of Calcutta in separate ships, sailing […]
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