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21st Annual Harvard India Poetry Reading

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Sun, May 14, 2017 from 02:00pm — 05:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event The South Asia Institute and Department of South Asian Studies presents the 21st annual Harvard India poetry reading. It is also the ninth anniversary meeting of South Asian Poets of New England (SAPNE). The theme for this event is Truth. We encourage new poets and new expressions. All languages are welcome, with some annotations in […]

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Archive Making and Archival Silences in Mughal Punjab

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Wed, Apr 26, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Speaker: Purnima Dhavan,  Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in History at University of Washington Moderators: Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persian & Indian Literatures at Boston University Neelam Khoja, Ph.D. Candidate Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies at Harvard University Lahore, the major urban hub and occasional […]

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Trump and Asia: Business as Usual?

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Tue, Apr 25, 2017 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event SAI Director Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, moderates a panel discussion on the impact of the election of Donald Trump on America’s trade and business dealings with Asian countries. Panellists: Mark Wu – Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School; member of the Faculty Advisory Committees of the East Asian Legal Studies Program and […]

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Ending America’s Longest War: Experiences from the diplomatic front lines in Afghanistan

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Mon, Apr 24, 2017 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Please join the India and South Asia Project in a conversation with Ambassador Feldman, Ambassador Grossman, and Ambassador Olson on the evolution of U.S. Policy in Afghanistan. Join the India and South Asia Project for a panel which will explore the evolution of U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The speakers include: Daniel Feldman, former US Special […]

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An Evening with Rana Dasgupta

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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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Rethinking Empires and Space: Histories of South Asia(ns), Mobility & Boundary Making

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Tue, Apr 18, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Panelists: Kornel Chang, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark Catherine Warner, College Fellow in South Asian Studies and History at Harvard University Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History at Brown University Discussants: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies Professor of History at Harvard University Hardeep Dhillon, […]

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South Asia ConnectED Conference

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Sat, Apr 15, 2017 from 08:30am — 05:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event   South Asia ConnectED April 15, 2017, 8:30 a.m – 5:00p.m, HGSE South Asia ConnectED is the first ever South Asia-centric education conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Explore catalyzing for scale in education policy, social change and education technology with leaders from South Asia. Join John Floretta (Associate Director of Policy […]

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Design Thinking Workshop for Educators

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Sat, Apr 15, 2017 from 02:00pm — 03:45pm, ET

Co-sponsored Event Explore design thinking through the lens of an educator: Sanjli Gidwaney, Director, Design For Change, USA. Limited seats only, so be quick to register here: bit.ly/designthinkingconnected Organizers: This conference is being conducted by HGSE South Asia Education Initiative, a student body at HGSE, aiming to build a bridge between students and faculty in Harvard and beyond […]

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Kultar’s Mime: The Hidden Story of the 1984 Delhi Pogrom as Told by a Jewish Art Collective

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Sun, Apr 9, 2017 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event You are invited to the Harvard performance of Kultar’s Mime, a play that blends painting, poetry, theater and music to tell the stories of Sikh children who survived the 1984 Delhi massacre that was organized in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination. A collective of young Jewish artists decides to commemorate […]

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Asian Borderlands: the First Annual Symposium

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Sat, Mar 25, 2017 from 01:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event This is the first meeting of a proposed annual conference of a research network that will meet every year at a different university, our other partner institutions being Chicago, Columbia and Cornell. Graduate Students from Harvard and beyond will convene to discuss a range of historical topics about border-making and border-crossing in various […]

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POSTPONED: Film Screening: For Fun

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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event A charming story of a group of senior citizens who set up a Peking Opera club in hopes of finding revitalization through singing and dancing. Fast paced and delightful. Cosponsored with the Asia Center

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