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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1965 Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Vivek Bald is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm
Beyond Sri Lanka’s War Against Terror: The Struggle for Sri Lanka’s Democracy Saliya Pieris, Attorney-at-Law, Chairman CFPS School of Law, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2012 Eisenhower Fellow Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School This talk will explain how developments in Sri Lanka, including the authoritarian executive Presidential Constitution in 1978, the war with the […]
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Fri, Nov 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Vernacular Political Economy in Colonial Bengal Andrew Sartori, Associate Professor of History, New York University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Bengali agrarian politics of the late colonial period turned to a very great extent on debates over property. To make sense of the emergence […]
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Mon, Nov 26, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Naxalism and Orissa: Divergent Conflicts, Political Economy, and Minoritization Angana Chatterji, Co-chair, Research Project on Armed Conflict and People’s Rights, Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, University of California at Berkeley Neat and Laundered Middle Classes and Third Gender Nepal Communist party-United Marxist Leninist: Masculinity and Politics in Contemporary Nepal Sanjeev Uprety, Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu; […]
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Fri, Nov 30, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Theologies of Migrant Workers in Delhi Shankar Ramaswami, Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Authority, Action, Criticism: Gandhi and Constructive Satyagraha Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies What is the structure of criticism embedded in Gandhian forms of action? The lecture considers the ways in which action and criticism can be […]
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Fri, Feb 8, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW – To be rescheduled! History Off Center: Writing from the Margins of Empire Allison Busch, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University The historiography of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) […]
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Wed, Mar 6, 2013 from 08:30am — 11:00am
Seminars, Student Seminar, Education, Social Enterprise, _temp, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Innovation in Education: Lessons for Entrepreneurship in Pakistan Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy Imran Sarwar, Co-Founder, Rabtt; MPP Class of 2013, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Seminar Report: The third Video Conference of the new SAI Series of Webinars focused on ‘Innovation in Education: Lessons for […]
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Mon, Apr 1, 2013 from 08:30am — 10:00am
Education as a Marketplace: What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Research on Pakistan’s Education Sector Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Professor of International Finance and Development. Faculty chair of the MPA/ID program, Harvard Kennedy School Mariam Chughtai, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education In the fourth and final Video […]
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Thu, Oct 27, 2011 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm
Public Health Messaging Chair: David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics Panelists: Marc Mitchell, Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health The Use of Mobile Technology to improve Health Care in South Africa Glorian Sorensen, Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Tobacco Cessation of Indian School Teachers and Manufacturing […]
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Mon, Apr 9, 2012 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
Diasporas, Investments, and Development in South Asia and Beyond Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College; Research Fellow, TheWeatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University Joel Trachtman, Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Paul Vaaler, Associate Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & […]
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Wed, Oct 10, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm
Social Good: Where Investments in Women and Girls Make the Greatest Impact Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, and Director of Research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Theresa Betancourt, Associate Professor of Child […]
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