When Women Mobilize: Dissecting India’s Gender Gap in Political Representation
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Thu, Nov 9, 2017
Soledad Prillaman of Harvard University speaks at Brown University.
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Nostalgia for the Future
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Tue, Oct 31, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
The film opens the discipline of architecture and filmmaking to self-critique and looks at the way that they imagine and construct a nation and its citizen.
More InfoArtist Talk: In Silence, The Secret Speaks
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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:15pm, ET
Engaging with a wide circuit of references like religious iconography, world mythology, philosophical and literature, Seema Kohli weaves together a story to recover the lost feminine narrative in cultural history in her work.
More InfoStudent movements in India and current challenges
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Fri, Oct 20, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Shehla Rashid Shora has emerged as a prominent face of the student-youth movement in India. She was active in the movement seeking justice for Dalit research scholar, Rohith Vemula, who ended his life after facing prolonged harassment by the University of Hyderabad administration. She also led the movement for the release of JNU students, Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban who were wrongfully imprisoned following a vicious media trial.
More InfoPartition of the Punjab
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Tue, Oct 17, 2017 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
In this talk, Ahmed will speak about the communal violence experienced during the transfer of power to Indian and Pakistani governments, specifically examining the situation which prevailed in the Punjab. Ahmed will present an analysis based on empirical evidence and a Theory of Ethnic Cleansing to shed light on how and why the Punjab was bloodied (March 1947), partitioned (End of March to 17 August 1947) and cleansed.
More InfoSister Nivedita’s Narrative of Inclusiveness
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Thu, Oct 12, 2017 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Borders in Modern Asia Workshop Inaugural Lecture Commemorating Sister Nivedita’s 150th Birth Anniversary REBA SOM Historian and Author of Margot (2017) CHAIRED BY SUGATA BOSE Gardiner Professor of History
More InfoDevi Shetty Seminar: Affordable Healthcare: Together We Can Do It
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Tue, Oct 10, 2017 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Dr. Shetty’s innovation in driving down cardiac surgery costs at his Narayana Health Hospital chain has often been compared to Henry Ford’s automobile assembly lines. At 14,000 surgeries last year, Narayana Health has given thousands access to life saving procedures that were previously out of reach. Dr. Shetty’s low-cost model has inspired accessible healthcare around the world.
More InfoCrossroads Summer Program
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Fri, Aug 11, 2017 - Mon, Aug 14, 2017, ET
The Crossroads Summer Program is a fully-funded introduction to Harvard and American university culture for students from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Africa, who are the first in their families to attend college and may also be facing challenging financial and social circumstances. Leading Harvard faculty will teach an intensive, multidisciplinary four-day curriculum in Dubai, for up to 60 accomplished, motivated youth.
More InfoEnding 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 […]
More Info“Our Clothes, Our Hair, We Don’t Care”: Prince and the British South Asian misfits
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Mon, Apr 24, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Research Affiliate Hasit Shah – journalist, Londoner and Prince fan – explores the connections between a group of second-generation British South Asians and a musician they too claimed as one of their own.
More InfoAn 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. […]
More InfoLegal Identity for Children in South Asia: The Role of Birth Registration and Biometric Identification
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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Amiya Bhatia, Doctor of Science student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Connor Jerzak, PhD student, Government Department South Asia has the largest number of children who do not have birth certificates. As biometric identification programs (e.g. Aadhaar in India, NADRA in […]
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