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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Dean Spears, Rice Institute Dean Spears is the Executive Director of the RICE Institute. Dean’s research focuses on children’s health and human capital, which these days often means height, sanitation, and social forces in Indian households and villages. He has also done research about population issues in social welfare […]
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Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:30pm, ET —
Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 02:30pm, ET
Student Event “Re-thinking Local” will examine how architects are developing new models of locally-based design practice given the changing realities of urbanization around the world, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia. These two public events feature Vo Trong Nghia, the most prolific contemporary architect in Vietnam, and Marina Tabassum, the leading female architect […]
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Modern Asia Seminar and Arts at SAI Seminar Ian Holliday,Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong ‘Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of transition,’ an exhibit of paintings will be on display Thursday, February 4 – Monday, February 22, 2016 in the Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge […]
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Thu, Feb 11, 2016 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor of the Political Economy of Development Cosponsored with the Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor Faguet will also be speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School of Friday, February 12, 11:45 am – 1:00 pm in an event sponsored by the Center for International Development. […]
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Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event ‘Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of transition,’ an exhibit of paintings will be on display Thursday, February 4 – Monday, February 22, 2016 in the Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Seminar on February 19: Freedom and Fear in Myanmar with Ian Holliday,Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of […]
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Arts at SAI Seminar Devdutt Pattanaik, Author, Mythologist, Artist (@devduttmyth) Chair: Gokul Madhavan, Preceptor in Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Can you imagine a cross-dressing God? Hindus can, and have, for over a thousand years. Did this express a universal social reality or was this a highly refined metaphor for a few remains a matter […]
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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Adam Ziegfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. […]
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Wed, Feb 3, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Abha Sur, Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, MIT Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst Suraj Yengde, Associate, Dept of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Rohith Chakravarti Vemula was an Indian PhD student at the Hyderabad Central University. […]
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Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 03:30pm, ET
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum Kim Gutschow, Lecturer, Williams College; Professor, Institute of Ethnology; and Chair, Anthropology of Public Health, Center for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen University Cosponsored by the Harvard South Asia Institute
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Mon, Feb 1, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Mircea Raianu, PhD Candidate, History Department, FAS; SAI Graduate Student Associate Chair Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences From one of many merchant families in the port city of Bombay in the mid-nineteenth century, Tata became India’s largest and most influential business […]
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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Javed Younas, Aman Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School The aid allocation literature reveals a negative association between the recipients’ income and aid inflows, implying that, all else equal, poorer nations receive more aid. This literature has assumed that two […]
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Mon, Nov 23, 2015 from 05:30pm — 06:30pm, ET
Charles Shao, Founder and Executive Chairman of Huaxia Dairy Farm Ltd Discussant: Ateya Khorakiwala, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Charles Shao is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Huaxia Dairy Farm Ltd. Huaxia operates three dairy farms […]
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