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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

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Mon, Mar 10, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

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 […]

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Innovation, Exploitation, and Documentation in the 21st-Century Slums

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Thu, Feb 20, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

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 […]

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Sacred Geographies: India and the US

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Thu, Jan 2, 2014

Harvard 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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Sacred Geographies: India and the US

Diana 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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Citizenship and Its Discontents

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Mon, Sep 23, 2013 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET

Harvard South Asia Institute Book Talk Niraja Jayal, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Chair: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of […]

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India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism

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Thu, Sep 19, 2013 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET

Harvard South Asia Institute Book Talk Arndt Michael, University of Freiburg Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Winner of the Association of Third World Studies’ Cecil B. Currey Book Award and the German-Indo Society’s Gisela Bonn Award 2013 “Arndt Michael, India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism (UK: Palgrave, MacMillan, 2013). It […]

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South Asia Institute Book Talk

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Thu, Apr 18, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

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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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Wed, Mar 27, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

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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South Asia Book Talk Series

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Mon, Oct 24, 2011 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET

Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose Chair: Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Comments by Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi, Visiting Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Program, Hunter College, CUNY

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South Asia Book Talk Series

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Wed, Oct 5, 2011 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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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