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The future of Indian Higher Education: Four case studies

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Tue, Sep 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

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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Princes of the Mughal Empire

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Tue, Sep 23, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Munis Faruqui, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program For almost 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme […]

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Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies in South Asia: Through a Peacebuilding Lens

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Tue, Sep 9, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

SAI Book Talk Moeed Yusuf, Editor of Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge and Director of South Asia Programs at the US Institute of Peace Chair: Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Dr.Yusuf has studied counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency responses in many countries including Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal and other non-South Asian countries. In his talk, […]

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Environmental Inspections in India

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Wed, Apr 16, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Science, Technology and Energy Seminar Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program’s Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Seating is limited. Seminars in this series are presentations and fairly technical economics papers. Some background in economics is helpful. 

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India’s Health System: Recent Findings and Developments

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Mon, Apr 14, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Global Health Seminar ‘Indian healthcare: Reforms, results and road ahead’ Sofi Bergkvist, Managing Director, ACCESS Health International ‘Open Secret : Parallel Systems and Human Resource Management in India’s Public Health Service: A View from the Front Lines’ Jerry La Forgia, Lead Health Specialist, World Bank Chair: Peter Berman, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and […]

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Nature Beyond Borders: Science, Society, and Conservation in India

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Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 01:30pm — 03:00pm, ET

Science Technology and Energy Seminar Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor, Delhi University; Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Political Anthropology Working Group Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian with a special interest in environmental history and colonial history of British India. He […]

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Intellectual Antecedents of the Global South: The Historical Thought of K. M. Panikkar

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Tue, Apr 8, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Christopher Lee, Lecturer in International Relations, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand; Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Kris K. Manjapra, Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University Cosponsored with the W. E. B. Du Bois […]

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Let’s Talk About Equity: Coverage of Maternal and Child Health Interventions in India

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Mon, Apr 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Global Health Seminar Diego Bassani, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Chair: SV Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Cosponsored with the Center for Population Development Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 […]

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The State and the Market in the Delivery of Primary Education in India: Theory and Evidence

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Fri, Apr 4, 2014 from 02:30pm — 04:30pm, ET

Education Seminar Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics (Brown Watson Institute, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and MIT Center for International Studies)

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Gandhi on Courage, Ethics and Society

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Fri, Mar 28, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Uday Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The City University of New York Discussant: Shankar Ramaswami, South Asia Institute South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Uday Singh Mehta, distinguished professor of political science, is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses […]

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