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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

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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

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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

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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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POSTPONED: Film Screening: Baghban

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Mon, Mar 20, 2017 from 04:15pm — 07:15pm, ET

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This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly couple wish their children to care for them in their old age. But their children see and treat them as a burden, and they must struggle to regain their worth and dignity to themselves and others. Cosponsored with […]

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A World of Women Villages

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Fri, Mar 10, 2017

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Cosponsored Event February 6 – March 10 2017 Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2nd Floor Exhibition Wall Ashley C. Thompson, Design Studies in Risk and Resilience, Harvard Graduate School of Design Curated from a collection of portraits of women and girls taken over more than 25 years of global travel, the exhibition presents ten portraits of […]

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“Argaḍa” and “Nirargaḍa”

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Thu, Feb 9, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event Liu Zhen, Professor, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/Discussant: Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University This talk will offer a short introduction to the Sanskrit word “argaḍa” and its antonym “nirargaḍa”. The word “argaḍa” first appears in Brāhmaṇa literature […]

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Misaq-e-Ishq: The Covenant of Love

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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 from 07:00pm — 08:30pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event The Lahore Biennale Foundation, the LUMS School of Education and the Harvard South Asia Institute present An Evening dedicated to Music, Poetry and the Arts Misaq-e-Ishq: The Covenant of Love Featuring Music and poetry recital by Ali Sethi With Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim Religion and Cultures at Harvard University And an introduction […]

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Jazz Goes to Bollywood

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Wed, Sep 14, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

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Cosponsored Event MIT-India and the Harvard South Asia Institute present South Asia and Its Diasporas, a speakers series Naresh Fernandes, Author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age Discussant: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT In the late 1950s, a period acknowledged as the Golden Era of Hindi film music, Bollywood songs were enlivened by […]

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