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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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Wed, Mar 30, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Henrik Valeur, Architect-Urbanist, Founder and Creative Director of UiD Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Can India use urbanization as a driver of economic, human and social development like China has done? How can Indian cities be made more inclusive, productive and livable? Are there any […]
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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
Special Event In collaboration with the upcoming “Megacities Asia” exhibition on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from April 3 to July 17, 2016, this event will bring together artists and academics to examine contemporary Asian megacities including Beijing, Delhi, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Discussions will focus on the built environment in these […]
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Tue, Mar 22, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Tarun Khanna, Director, SAI, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
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Tue, Mar 8, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Julia King, Architectural designer and urban researcher, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Diana Al-Hadid, Designer Dr. Atyia Martin, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Boston; Adjunct faculty in the Master of Homeland Security at Northeastern University Moderator:Susan Surface, Program Director at Design in Public On March 8, 2016, Women in Design, a […]
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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Christopher Clary, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University In traditional surveys in Pakistan, the vast majority of respondents identify India as an enemy and a serious threat to Pakistan. Do these beliefs affect voter choices? In a novel survey experiment, we […]
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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Priyasha Saksena, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School; SAI Graduate Student Associate Chair: Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk focuses on jurisdictional disputes between the Indian princely states and the British Government in late nineteenth-century South Asia to flesh out both the role played by international law in the definition […]
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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Anand V. Taneja, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Anthropology, Asian Studies Program, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Relations between religions in South Asia have been seen as marked by either competition or […]
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