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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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Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 02:00pm, ET
JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Dr. Bilal A. Baloch is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics and a Lecturer and Regional Director in South Asia, Middle East and North Africa at The Joseph H. Lauder Institute, Wharton School of Business, University […]
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Sat, Nov 3, 2018 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University hosted a special talk as part of its Artist Talk: India Seminar Series. The talk titled “Trauma and Memory: Healing through Art” by Kabi Raj Lama – a Nepal based artist and Visiting Artist Fellow at Harvard University retraced the artist’s personal life story involving […]
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Tue, Oct 9, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
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Panelists Sugata Bose Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Rohit De Assistant Professor of History, Yale University Sreenivasan Jain Anchor and Managing Editor, New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) Ayesha Jalal Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University Moderator Homi Bhabha Director, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
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Tue, Oct 2, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School on his new book, Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries in conversation with Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Wed, Sep 26, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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Artistic Director and founder of Riyaaz Qawwali, Sonny Mehta, will share his personal story from learning classical music to performing qawwali, the musical genre commonly associated with the Sufi tradition in South Asia. He will demonstrate the basics of qawwali, unfolding the relevant musical elements, poetry and important performance aspects.
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Wed, May 9, 2018 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 Speaker(s): David Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University
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Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:15pm, ET
Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; former Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Uganda and China Chair: Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Lakshmi […]
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