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Tue, Oct 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Wed, Apr 16, 2014 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm
VENUE
MIT, Building E51 Room 325
ADDRESS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E51 Room 325
Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets
Cambridge, MA
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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Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:00pm
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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Fri, Jan 31, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
South Asia Institute Book Talk Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer and journalist Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT A book sale will follow the event.
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Mon, Mar 10, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
SAI Book Talk Husain Haqqani, Director of the Center of International Relations; Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Shuja Nawaz, Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance […]
More InfoHarvard alumni and friends will gather in Kolkata for a conversation with Diana Eck about her most recent book, India: A Sacred Geography. Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Member of the Faculty of Divinity, […]
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Tue, Apr 22, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Thu, Feb 20, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
Urbanization Seminar Katherine Boo, New Yorker Staff Writer, Author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Senior Loeb Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Katherine is a staff writer at the The New Yorker Magazine and the author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, winner of the National Book […]
More InfoDiana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University. Eck invites Harvard alumni and friends to join her in New York City for a conversation about her most recent book, India: A Sacred Geography, which is a culmination of more than a decade’s work. Eck will address spiritual pilgrimages in India, such as […]
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Wed, Mar 27, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Graphic Violence: Representing the Rippling Effects of Conflict through Narrative, Illustration and Photography Benjamin Dix, Photographer and Author of The Vanni Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School Chair: Jennifer Leaning, FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Benjamin Dix, […]
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Thu, Apr 18, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
BREAKING OUT: An Indian Woman’s American Journey Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director, Center for Transition Economies Department of Economics, Columbia University Chair: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education Reception to follow Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, […]
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Wed, Oct 5, 2011 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker Chair: Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Fredric Werthham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Divinity, Harvard University Video of her lecture can be found here.
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