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Wed, Sep 14, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event MIT-India and the Harvard South Asia Institute present South Asia and Its Diasporas, a speakers series Naresh Fernandes, Author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age Discussant: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT In the late 1950s, a period acknowledged as the Golden Era of Hindi film music, Bollywood songs were enlivened by […]
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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology, JNU, Delhi Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This paper focuses upon new urban developments in India and suggests that an ethnographic account of this context provides fruitful […]
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Tue, Apr 26, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:00pm, ET
South Asia Week at Harvard Kennedy School As the eighth most populous country in the world, Bangladesh is undergoing a series of demographic, economic and political transformations. In a discussion as part of the annual SOUTH ASIA WEEK, Ambassador Ziauddin will address how Bangladesh is shaping its region. Ambassador Ziauddin joined the BCS (Foreign Affairs) with […]
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Mon, Apr 25, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia and Art Seminar Ali Aftab Saeed with Saad Sultan, Musicians Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Satire is one of the most prominent forms of expression in Pakistani art. Most of the television hits that have surfaced […]
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Mon, Apr 25, 2016 from 01:15pm — 02:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event On April 25, 2015, the Gorkha Earthquake struck Nepal, causing extensive damage and taking the lives of thousands. In this panel discussion, speakers, including students from several Harvard graduate programs, will draw on their research to discuss how relief and recovery have progressed in the year since the disaster occurred. Speakers: Erica Kelly, […]
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Wed, Apr 20, 2016 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Ambassador Nirupama Rao, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University; former Foreign Secretary of India; former Ambassador of India to China and the United States Cosponsored by the Harvard Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
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Thu, Apr 7, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
This event has been cancelled. South Asia Without Borders Seminar Jan Breman, Professor, SOAS, University of London Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant structuring becomes one part of this imagination (No […]
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Sat, Apr 2, 2016 from 11:30am — 01:00pm, ET
Student Event Tanika Sarkar, Professor of Modern History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Hardeep Dhillon, PhD candidate in History, Harvard University Cosponsored with The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University
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Thu, Mar 31, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Umar Saif, Chairman, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB); Vice Chancellor, ITU Chair: Karim R. Lakhani, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Pakistan is the 6th largest country in the world by population. Over half of the population lives below $2 poverty line; 40% of the adult population is unable to read or […]
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Arts Seminar Paribartana Mohanty, Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program Chair: Namita Dharia, Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences The lecture-performance is part of Mohanty’s larger project ‘Act the Victim’ that engages with the images of crisis circulating on social media. It is based on a video excerpt of TV interview of Narendra […]
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Tue, Mar 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Dr. Yaaminey Mubayi, Culture and Community Development Chair: Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Water as an essential resource for the evolution of human settlements throughout history, has thus far escaped the attention of scholars of history in South Asia. Contemporary research relating to the subject largely […]
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