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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

WHEN
Wed, Oct 5, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

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

‘Progressives and Perverts’: Partition Stories and Pakistan’s Future Kamran Asdar Ali, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Shahab Ahmed, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University View the event on Vimeo here. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

WHEN
Tue, Feb 28, 2012 from 05:00am — 06:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Seeing the Frontier: Re-Visioning Histories of Pakistan Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University Watch the video here.

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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

WHEN
Mon, Nov 14, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

Environmental History and the Creation of Pakistan David Gilmartin, Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University Watch the seminar here. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

WHEN
Mon, Oct 15, 2012 from 04:00am — 05:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

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 Seminar Series

WHEN
Thu, Nov 8, 2012 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

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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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series

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

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

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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Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar

WHEN
Mon, Mar 11, 2013 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

The Cost of Condemnation: Heresy and Takfir in a South Indian Community Brian Didier, History Department Head, Winsor School 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 Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed […]

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Muslim Societies in South Asia

WHEN
Fri, Oct 12, 2012 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

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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Indian Democracy: Prospects and Challenges

WHEN
Tue, May 7, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

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

Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Chair: Prerna Singh, Assistant Professor at the Department of Government,Harvard University Professor Yogendra Yadav is an Indian social scientist. He was appointed as a member of the National Advisory Council for the implementation of the Right to Education Act in 2010. He was appointed […]

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If Women Governed Forests: A History of Absence, The Impact of Presence

WHEN
Thu, Sep 12, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School   Can the gender composition of groups managing local forests affect conservation outcomes? This simple question has been little addressed, despite the substantial literature on women’s […]

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