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Thu, Nov 19, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Sarika Gupta, PhD candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Graduate Student Associate, South Asia Institute Discussant: Radhika Jain, PhD Candidate, Harvard University This talk will present an overview of an ongoing field project in Delhi aimed at understanding barriers citizens face in successfully taking up government welfare programs. Specifically, it will discuss […]
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Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Devesh Kapur, Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India, Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Devesh Kapur was appointed Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in […]
More InfoThis event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. Book Talk Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Environment and Rural Development Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School To The Brink and Back is an account of the events leading to the path-breaking economic liberalisation unveiled by Rao’s government with […]
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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor The University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In the two decades following the creation of Pakistan, the government embarked on a lofty project to establish Muslim nationalism as a two pronged symbol: a […]
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Mon, Nov 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Arts Seminar Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Chitra Venkataramani, South Asian Studies Fellow, South Asia Institute Kandalgaonkar’s art practice focuses primarily on unseen or ignored processes of urbanization. In his work, he draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document, represent and critique urban flows. cityinflux is the name of his practice […]
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Tue, Oct 27, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Peter Scriver, Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of Adelaide Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In Jawaharlal Nehru’s strategic vision for India’s postcolonial modernization and development, the architecture and urbanism of Chandigarh, the new Punjab State Capital, was of ‘enormous importance’. ‘It hits […]
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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
GSA Seminar Rosanna Picascia, SAI Graduate Student Associate, PhD candidate in the Study of Religion 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 talk will look at the debate among Sanskrit philosophers of religion over whether, and the […]
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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:15pm, ET
Social Anthropology Seminar Series Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor of Anthropology, NYU Cosponsored with the Harvard Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
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Fri, Oct 9, 2015 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Sandip Sukhtankar, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College Sandip Sukhtankar is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. His research interests are development economics, political economy, and public economics, with a particular focus on corruption, governance, and the delivery of public benefits and services. He is […]
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Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:15pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center Discussant: Laila Bushra, Babar Ali Fellow, South Asia Institute Cosponsored with the Modern Asia and Fellows Seminar Series, Asia Center
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Thu, May 14, 2015 from 04:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Special Event 4:00-5:30pm: Panel I, Public Health, Water and Sanitation and Rebuilding of Places and Heritage Sites Co Moderator: Xeno Acharya, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health; Students For Nepal Jarrod Goentzel, Director, MIT Humanitarian Response Lab; Lecturer, MIT Michael Hooper, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Daniele Lantagne, Usen Family Career Development Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil […]
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Mon, May 4, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Special Event Prashant Jha, Associate Editor, Hindustan Times. Chair: Madhav Khosla, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory, Department of Government, Harvard University On April 25, Nepal was hit by a devastating earthquake. Almost 5000 people have died and the numbers are steadily increasing. The full scale of losses in terms of human casualties, homes destroyed and […]
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