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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

WHEN
Thu, Feb 7, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

“Permanent Coup D’état:” The Historical and Institutional Foundations of Military Intervention in Pakistan Aqil Shah, Society of Fellows, Harvard University Chair: 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 […]

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Public Health at the World’s Largest Gathering

WHEN
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 from 03:30pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
Harvard School of Public Health

ADDRESS
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge 502
677 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA

A Field Report from India’s Kumbh Mela   Panel discussion and Q & A with HSPH Kumbh Mela Team Featuring: Satchit Balsari MD, MPH: Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights • Associate Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative • Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program / Weill Cornell Medical College • M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health, […]

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Oracular Speech, Collective Intention, and the Ideology of Absence

WHEN
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 from 12:15pm — 02:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Case Studies from India Professor William S. Sax, Chair of Ethnology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University “Possession” by gods and spirits is often accompanied by an ideology of absence, according to which those “possessed” have no memory of what they experienced or said during their trance.  Yet many aspects of such events seem to contradict this […]

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Negotiating Identities and Emotions: Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka

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Tue, Nov 15, 2011 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

Sponsored by the Harvard International Negotiation Project (HINP), co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative, Harvard Global Health Institute, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School A Guest Lecture by: Her Excellency Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – Former President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005) Opening Remarks by Daniel Shapiro, Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program For over two […]

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