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Sun, May 19, 2019 at 02:00pm, ET
The theme for this year’s India Poetry Reading is “Compassion.” This annual event celebrates India’s contribution to the field of literature and invites local poets to recite original compositions in the language of their choosing. This event is presented in partnership with the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University and South Asian Poets […]
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Fri, Apr 19, 2019 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
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Amar Kanwar (b. 1964) is a New Delhi-based filmmaker and artist whose work has powerfully mined the potential of a slower, drifting method of moving image to forge a politically charged and engaged mode of gently expanded cinema. Kanwar’s critically acclaimed yet fiercely debated Such a Morning hovers on the border between magical realist allegory and slow cinema trance film with an almost Calvino-like fable of a renowned mathematician impulsively abandoning his university post, without explanation, to hibernate in a train car abandoned deep in a lush forest.
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Thu, Apr 18, 2019 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Amar Kanwar presents an artist talk. The following evening on Friday, April 19, 7 pm, Such a Morning will be screened at the Harvard Film Archive.
Both Amar Kanwar programs are presented in collaboration with The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive, Film Study Center, and The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University.
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Sat, Apr 13, 2019 from 09:00am — 06:00pm, ET
The South Asian countries are tied through a common heritage and similar socio-economic problems. However, despite its geopolitical sensitivity and human resource potential, there has been limited discussion on the possible areas of cooperation and barriers to such cooperation in the South Asian region. With the proposed USA withdrawal from Afghanistan and recent tensions between […]
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Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:00pm, ET
JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Sarah Khan, Postgraduate Associate, Yale MacMillan Center Sarah Khan is a postgraduate associate at the Yale MacMillan Center. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender and comparative politics, with a regional specialization in South Asia. In her work, she explores gender gaps in political preferences, and the barriers […]
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Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 04:00pm, ET
As part of the Asia Center’s Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, Samira Sheikh will join us to discuss the late-Mughal era in Gujarat.
Speaker:
Samira Sheikh, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Chairs:
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University
Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
This event is hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Mittal Institute, and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History.
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Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 05:30pm, ET
Sculpture from early Buddhist sites in South Asia might be accused of becoming repetitive or redundant, with key motifs appearing repeatedly across a single site or certain types of images, such as the Andhra-style Buddha, populating a multitude of sites.
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Tue, Mar 12, 2019 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Saadat Hasan Manto was the great Urdu short-story writer who captured the human tragedy of the partition of India. Join us for a screening of the film Manto, followed by a conversation with the film’s Director, Nandita Das. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, and Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Chair […]
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Tue, Feb 19, 2019 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, will discuss his new book entitled “The Future Is Asian,” in a talk chaired by Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of The Mittal Institute. This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center. About the book: “The ‘Asian […]
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Fri, Feb 15, 2019 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
In collaboration with the Office of Student Affairs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Asia Center are co-sponsoring a film screening of “India’s Daughter,” followed by a discussion with Leslee Udwin, Producer and Director. “India’s Daughter” is a documentary film based on the story […]
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Mon, Feb 11, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:15pm, ET
Join us for a conversation with Bilawal Bhutto, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, on Pakistan’s youth and the welfare state. The conversation will be chaired by Mariam Chughtai, Babar Ali Fellow of the Mittal Institute and Associate Dean and Assistant Professor at LUMS Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education, Pakistan. […]
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Mon, Feb 11, 2019 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
This event is co-hosted by the Asia Center and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. As part of the Asia Center’s Science and Technology Seminar Series, Professor Jayita Sarkar of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University will discuss nuclear policy in India. After President Eisenhower’s 1953 “Atoms for Peace” proposal […]
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