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SAI Event Type : Seminars


The Brittle Forge: Higher Education and India’s Human Capital

WHEN
Tue, Feb 18, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Education Seminar Devesh Kapur,  Associate Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Higher Education in India is going through profound changes, not […]

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

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

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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

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

VENUE
CGIS Knafel K031

ADDRESS
CGIS Knafel K031
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

WHEN
Mon, Mar 10, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm

VENUE
Thompson Room
Barker Center

ADDRESS
Thompson Room
Barker Center
12 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Husain Haqqani, Director of the Center of International Relations; Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Shuja Nawaz, Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council  Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance […]

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‘Pious Wishes?’: Observations on the Directive Principles in the Indian Constitution and the Uniform Civil Code

WHEN
Fri, Feb 28, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

South Asia Without Border Seminar Ronojoy Sen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Dr Ronojoy Sen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and […]

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

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

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

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

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

VENUE
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University

ADDRESS
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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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Gandhi on Courage, Ethics and Society

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

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

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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CANCELLED: Princes of the Mughal Empire

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Fri, Mar 7, 2014

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, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Cosponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program […]

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Dharna and the Discretionary State: The Construction of the Political and Genealogies of Democracy in Contemporary India

WHEN
Mon, Feb 24, 2014 from 04:15pm — 05:45pm

VENUE
William James Hall, 1550

ADDRESS
William James Hall, 1550
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge MA

South Asia Without Border Seminar Lisa Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Political Anthropology Department 

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