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Mon, Feb 23, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Border Seminar Anand Vaidya, SAI South Asian Studies Fellow Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Q+A with Anand Vaidya: The politics of conservation In September 2011, a forest village in Uttar Pradesh named Ramnagar was destroyed. The village had been settled four years earlier by landless members of lower […]
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Mon, Feb 9, 2015 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Due to weather and the University closing, this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. SAI Arts Initiative Event Exhibition Reception and Personal Tour at 5:30PM in the CGIS South Second Floor Lobby, followed by a panel discussion at 6:30PM CGIS S010. What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion […]
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Thu, Dec 11, 2014 from 08:00am — 09:45am, ET
Richard Olson, US Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Chair: Nicholas Burns, Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, HKS In a breakfast discussion with R. Nicholas Burns, HKS, Ambassador Richard Olson will reflect on his experience heading one of the largest US embassies in Islamabad and his views on the US-Pakistan relationship. Ambassador Olson […]
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Wed, Dec 3, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
SAI Book Talk Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University Discussant: Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Cosponsored by the Prince Alwaleed […]
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Fri, Nov 21, 2014 from 02:00pm — 03:30pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Environment and Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party, is an Indian economist and politician. Since June 2004, Ramesh has been a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of […]
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Special Event This event seeks to explore challenges and successes of private and corporate philanthropy in South Asia in a comparative lens to philanthropy in the US. What are the enabling factors in the US that promote philanthropy? How do these compare to India’s enabling factors? For example, India is the first country to […]
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar S. Mukherjee, Director General & Secretary, Board of Trustees, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Mr. Mukherjee’s presentation will include an overview of issues concerning museums in South Asia, […]
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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar James Manor, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Chair: Parimal 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 examine certain key implications of a monumentally important trend, […]
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Mon, Nov 10, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Please note the updated date and location. Vikram Bhatt, Professor, School of Architecture and Director, Minimum Cost Housing Group, McGill University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Jugaad is a Hindi word meaning a clever improvisation […]
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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]
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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 05:15pm — 06:30pm, ET
Arts Lecture and Opening Reception for ‘Coded Elegance’ Photographer Pablo Bartholomew, whose career spans over 40 years, introspects on his personal collection of historical photographs as well as works by other photographers from the pre and post-Independence era, rounding off by elaborating on contemporary practices. This visual walkthrough consists of photographic work that has marked and influenced him. […]
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Tue, Nov 4, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Arts Initiative Seminar Pablo Bartholomew, Photojournalist Discussant: Bridget Corbett Hanna, Post-Doc, Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide Factory, now owned by Dow Chemicals, caused the death of thousands of inhabitants of Bhopal and incapacitated the living who have […]
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