This seminar, with support from the Harvard University Asia Center, will explore the early findings of a research project that examines community-level strategies to prevent violence, abuse, and exploitation of children in India.
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Fri, Sep 7, 2018 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Francesca R. Jensenius, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Chair: Emmerich Davies, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Francesca Jensenius specializes in comparative politics, comparative political economy, and research methods, with […]
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As part of our ongoing India Seminar Series, we are partnering with Sangath and It’s Ok To Talk for an event titled ‘Unspoken Story’ with Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School, in a conversation about mental health. This event is supported by Welcome Trust and the American Centre, and […]
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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
VENUE
Annexe Building, Lecture Room 1, India International Center, New Delhi
India’s coal industry is highly contested today. Between the immediacy of coal shortages, the transition to renewable energy, and air pollution problems, the long history of the coal industry and India’s deep economic and social dependence on the fuel gets lost in conversation. In this talk, Rohit will give a brief historical sketch of the […]
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Wed, Jun 27, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Ziipao posits that road building has always been an act of power, which has at different times been leveraged to smooth relationships, securing borders, (dis)connecting people, enabling trade, creating spaces of contestation, or diluting boundaries between varied ethnic groups. Read Raile’s recent blog on the People’s Road.
Presented by Raile Rocky Ziipao
Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian South Asia Fellow
Moderated by Nitin A. Gokhale
Journalist and Defence Analyst
This seminar focuses on how political reservation in favour of Scheduled Castes (SC) in Bihar affects inequality in private wealth and access to public goods. It presents research and findings of public good access across all of Bihar’s 45,000 villages and analyses data on private wealth for more than two crore rural households across the state.
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Wed, May 9, 2018 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 Speaker(s): David Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University
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Fri, Apr 27, 2018 from 12:15pm — 02:00pm, ET
Asia Center Seminar Series Professor Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University
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Can mobile money help the rural poor become more resilient to climate change shocks? Imtiaz ul Haq presents new evidence using satellite data from the world’s most successful mobile money market, Kenya, and discusses how the findings translate to South Asia. Imtiaz ul Haq, Aman Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor Of Economics At The Lahore University […]
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Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:15pm, ET
Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; former Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Uganda and China Chair: Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Lakshmi […]
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Fri, Apr 13, 2018 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
Dr. R. Siva Kumar Professor of History of Art, Visva Bharati University Chair: Jinah Kim Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture Dr. R. Siva Kumar will give an illustrated talk on Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to the evolution of modern Indian art and his emergence as a painter. While Rabindranath began to […]
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Wed, Apr 11, 2018 from 06:15pm — 08:30pm, ET
Speaker: Cynthia Stephen, Independent Researcher on gender, poverty, development and policy issues. Light refreshments will be served.
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