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Wed, Nov 14, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
Anirban Adhya, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Lawrence Tech College of Architecture and Design Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design For the City of Kolkata and Bengalis, Durga Pujo is a festival of its own. The festival is rooted in a social-cultural phenomenon that transcends religious […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
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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Thu, Nov 8, 2012 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Religion, Historiography, and the Emergence of Islamic Empire in India Blain H. Auer, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Western Michigan University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Amidst dramatic political and social changes, Delhi and its sultans stood in a new, […]
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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Thu, Nov 1, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Himalayan Glaciers, Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security Henry J. Vaux, Jr., Professor of Resource Economics, Emeritus Chair, Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, University of California Riverside Chair: John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, SEAS Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Center […]
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Tue, Oct 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Prospects for Accelerating Progress in Health and Nutrition in India A joint program with the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health as part of its GHP@50 celebration of 50 years of global health work 4-6 PM: Indian Music and Tea, Symposium with several leading scholars and authorities at Kresge 502, […]
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Fri, Oct 19, 2012 from 09:30am — 11:00am, ET
Spurring Entrepreneurship: A Case for Inclusive Innovation in Emerging Markets Lessons For Pakistan from China and India 9:30 AM in Cambridge, 6:30 PM in Pakistan This event will be videoconferenced and webcast from Cambridge, MA Join in the conversation – tweet questions to #saipak Tarun Khanna, Director of the Harvard South Asia Initiative & Jorge […]
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Wed, Oct 17, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Inclusive Innovation: The Emerging Game Changer R.A. Mashelkar, President of the Global Research Alliance Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Dr. Ramesh Mashelkar is President of Global Research Alliance, a network of 60,000 scientists from five continents. He is a Fellow of Royal Society, NAS, NAE & […]
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Tue, Oct 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
“Prehistorical and historical changes in hydrology and settlement in the Indian Subcontinent: What happened and what can we learn?” Liviu Giosan, Associate Scientist, Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Chair: John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmenta Engineering, SEAS
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Mon, Oct 15, 2012 from 04:00am — 05:00pm, ET
Shifting Politics in Pakistan: Challenging Feudalism Nadeem Qureshi, Chairman of Mustaqbil Pakistan Chair: Professor Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and, Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. Nadeem Qureshi, the Chairman of Mustaqbil Pakistan, discusses […]
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Fri, Oct 12, 2012 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET
Overtaken by Events: A Pakistan Road Trip Ethan Casey, International Journalist, Editor, and Author Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is the account of Ethan Casey’s journey, entirely overland, starting in Mumbai, India — just three months after […]
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Wed, Oct 10, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
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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