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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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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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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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Fri, Apr 20, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Centers of Law: Duties, Rights and Jurisdictional Pluralism in Medieval India Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Donald A. Davis, Jr., Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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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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Fri, Apr 13, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Member of Faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School Chair: Hitesh Hathi, Producer, Here and Now, WBUR Co-sponsored by Lowell House and the Department of South Asian Studies
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Wed, Apr 11, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Challenges of Newborn Hypothermia in South Asia Karsten Lunze, Senior Fellow, Primary Care Academic Fellowship Program Boston University School of Medicine Luke C. Mullany, Associate Professor, Department of International Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Naganand Murty, Co-Founder and President, Technologies, Embrace Kristian Olson, Clinician Educator Service, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Director of Education and Technology […]
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Mon, Apr 9, 2012 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
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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Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Faith, Loyalty, Status: Mughal-era Perspectives on Elite Rajput Conversions to Islam Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Ramya Srinivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies.
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Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 03:30pm — 05:30pm, ET
Amjad Saqib, Executive Director of Microfinance Institution Akhuwat Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer in the Initiative on Social Enterprise of the General Management Group of HBS Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsors: Harvard Pakistan Student Group Pakistan Speaker Series, HKS Pakistan Caucus
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Mon, Mar 19, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University The scholarship on post-conflict resolution is growing and the new questions and discourses on peacemaking forefront […]
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Thu, Mar 8, 2012 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
A Tale of Three Cities: India’s Urban Future Chaired by Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Date: Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:30 pm-8:00 pm Location: Stubbins Room, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge , MA 02138 Ravi Kalia, Professor of Asian Studies, Division of Humanities and the […]
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