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The First Battlefield of Western Nuclear Competition: India and Light Water Reactors, 1955–1963
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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 […]
More InfoCrisis and Credibility: The Politics of Ideas in India and Developing Democracies
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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 […]
More InfoMeritocracy: Perspectives from China Past and Present
How should societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their full potential and ensuring that competent and capable leaders are selected to govern are central challenges for any society. Failure to meet these challenges can have enormous costs, for individuals and for societies as a whole. The richness of China’s historical experience […]
More InfoThe Emerging Markets Technological Revolution: Financial Inclusion & Development Through Digitization
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Mon, Oct 15, 2018 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Nadeem Hussain, founder of Telenor Microfinance Bank, is globally recognized for his dedication and service to financial inclusion. He has chaired the United Nation’s MDG Session on Financial Inclusion, is a frequent speaker at international forums on branchless banking and microfinance, and has held numerous board and committee positions in the sector. He will discuss the […]
More InfoThe Great Indian Migration Wave
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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
COST Free
Join visiting scholar Chinmay Tumbe and moderator Ian Talbot for a discussion about the great Indian Migration wave. In this seminar, Tumbe provides an overview of his book, India Moving: A History of Migration, that attempts to explain when, how and why people have moved to, from and within the subcontinent over centuries. It reveals one of […]
More InfoGender, Violence and Vulnerabilities of Adolescents in India
As part of our ongoing India Seminar Series, we are partnering with the Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego for a talk titled, ‘Gender, Violence and Vulnerabilities of Adolescents in India’ by Dr. Anita Raj, Tata Chancellor Professor of Medicine, Director of Center on Gender Equity & Health (Department of Medicine), UC […]
More InfoArt and Science of the Forbes Pigment Collection | Color and Pigments in Indian Painting
Please join us for this two-part lecture cosponsored by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) and supported by Jai & Sugandha Hiremath – Hikal Ltd. An invitation to this event may be found here. Art and Science of the Forbes Pigment Collection by Narayan Khandekar Dr Narayan Khandekar tells us about the Forbes Pigment Collection. It […]
More InfoThe Past, Present and Potential Future of Coal in India
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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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Annexe Building, Lecture Room 1, India International Center, New Delhi
India’s coal industry is highly contested today. Between the immediacy of coal shortages, the transition to renewable energy, and air pollution problems, the long history of the coal industry and India’s deep economic and social dependence on the fuel gets lost in conversation. In this talk, Rohit will give a brief historical sketch of the […]
More InfoSouth Asia Without Borders Seminar: Citizenship of the Outcastes
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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
The panel will discuss conceptions of “citizenship” in India as related to caste and indigeneity. The discussion will be an opportunity to explore the ways that citizenship and belonging have been constructed through exclusion and marginalization based on social, political, and ethnic lines. Rajyashri Goody, Visiting Artist, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University Suraj […]
More InfoB4 Valedictory Event in Bangalore
B4’s intensive two-week workshop on Genomic Applications in Healthcare & Translational Research will culminate in a valedictory event featuring a key note by Dr. VijayRaghavan (Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, India.)
More InfoLooking Back, Informing the Future: A Multidisciplinary Research Project on the 1947 Partition of British India
2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India, as well as the launch of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s major research on Partition.
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