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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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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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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, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:30pm, ET — Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 06:30pm, ET
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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Fri, Oct 17, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Asad Ahmed, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of California Berkeley Chair: Khaled el-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History; member of the Steering Committee of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program This lecture aims to show that the history of the rationalist disciplines […]
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SAI Book Talk Jocelyne Cesari, Senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Visiting Associate professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University; Director of Islam in the West, Harvard University Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In this book, Jocelyne Cesari explores the relationship between modernization, politics, […]
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Mon, Oct 6, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Smriti Srinivas, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Cosponsored with the Harvard University Social Anthropology Colloquium This presentation seeks to understand the ethnographic and analytical registers of […]
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