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Global Health Seminar Series

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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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Water and Climate Change Seminar Series

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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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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

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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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Muslim Societies in South Asia

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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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Oracular Speech, Collective Intention, and the Ideology of Absence

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

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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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

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Thu, Sep 27, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Muslim Devotional Art in India Yousuf Saeed, Independent Researcher and Filmmaker Based in Delhi, India Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Study of Religion Yousuf Saeed reads and illustrates from his new book Muslim Devotional Art in India. The presentation will conclude with a musical video “The Train […]

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Global Health and Urbanization Seminar Series

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Tue, Sep 4, 2012 from 05:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

MAPPING MUMBAI’S TOILETS Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design James Potter, Master’s Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Jennifer Weaver, Master’s Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Chair: Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public […]

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Urbanization Seminar Series

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Wed, Apr 18, 2012 from 08:00am — 05:00pm, ET

Mega-Cities, the Urban Poor and the Price of Planning: The Case of Slum Upgrading in Indian Cities Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Janice Perlman, Founder & President of the Mega-Cities Project Co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design   Watch the video below:

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