Arts Seminar Komal Shahid Khan, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Susan S. Bean, Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies; Board Member, Textile Society of America; Associate, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Senior Curator for South Asian and Korean Art. Peabody Essex Museum Starting with an introduction and practices which lead to […]
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Wed, Dec 7, 2016 from 05:15pm — 06:45pm, ET
Special Event Navtej Sarna, Indian Ambassador to the US Chair: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, South Asia Institute Ambassador Sarna took charge as Ambassador of India to the United States on November 5, 2016. He has been a Member of the Indian Foreign Service since 1980. He was previously posted in […]
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Arts Seminar Meenakshi Sengupta, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, South and Southeast Asian Art, Harvard University This talk will focus on the celebration of womanhood and how Sengupta comes to this work. Boys don’t cry is a title of her recent drawing […]
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Mon, Nov 7, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Sharon Tai, Research Editor, SHARIAsource Ali Hashmi, MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate (2015-2016) and SHARIAsource Editor/Data Scientist Osama Siddique, Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights, Harvard Law School, Law and Policy Research Network This talk focuses on using corpus analysis as a research method. Media discourse on legislative issues provides a […]
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Thu, Nov 3, 2016 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Film Screenings Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Screening of Mandir, masjid, mandal and Marx: Democracy in India (45 minutes) The film, by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University, tells the story of […]
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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Tarun Das, former Director-General and Chief Mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industries Chair: Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Asia Center Seminar Series, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design This panel brings together three urban scholars […]
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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Shubhankita Ojha, Global Fellow, WIGH; Fellow, South Asia Institute, Harvard University; University of Delhi, India Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Graduate Student Commentator: Rudi Batzell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Learn more about Ojha’s research:
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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Brown University Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for […]
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Fri, Oct 7, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Alf Nilsen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University This paper aims to contribute to discussions of subaltern politics in contemporary India through an investigation of the character and trajectory of democratic mobilisation among Bhil Adivasis in western Madhya Pradesh. Grounded […]
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Fri, Sep 23, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Aruna Roy, Activist & Founder, MKSS Aruna Roy is an Indian political and social activist who founded the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) along with Shankar Singh, Nikhil Dey and many others. The MKSS began by fighting for fair and equal wages for workers which shaped and evolved into a struggle for […]
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Fri, Sep 16, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Book Talk Tarunabh Khaitan, Associate Professor and Hackney Fellow in Law, Wadham College, University of Oxford Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University Borrowing and developing the concept from Ireland, framers of India’s Constitution inserted a chapter titled ‘directive principles of state policy’ in the founding document. They were a mix of principles […]
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