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Fri, Nov 21, 2014 from 02:00pm — 03:30pm
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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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 05:15pm — 06:30pm
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
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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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
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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Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 01:00pm
SAI South Asia Without Border Seminar Richard Wolf, Department of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
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Wed, Dec 3, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
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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Thu, Oct 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
SAI Education Seminar Tara Beteille, World Bank Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School This paper provides a detailed account of how the system of teacher transfers operates in large parts of India. It presents evidence to suggest that teacher transfers form the bedrock of a patronage-based low-accountability school system. Politicians need teachers because teachers are […]
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Tue, Sep 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Education Seminar Pramath Raj Sinha, Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business and a founder of Ashoka University Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School “Everyone knows Indian Higher Education is a mess. Proposals for its transformation abound, but things continue to go from bad to worse. Despite the doom and gloom, there are […]
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
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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Mon, Nov 10, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
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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Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 06:30pm
Urbanization Lecture Series Series of Lectures with Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Read a summary of the event: Exploring a city’s narrative Tuesday, Oct. 21: “Migration: Storytelling the City” (6:30PM, Piper Auditorium GSD) The worldwide stampede to urban areas has produced a set of narratives about the city; dislocation demands recollection. What […]
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