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Old Stories in New Moments: Digambara Jain Rāmāyaṇa Literature in Early Modernity

WHEN
Thu, Mar 30, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Gregory Clines, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Catherine Hartmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion The fifteenth-century author Brahma Jinadāsa, a member of the Digambara Balatkāra Gaṇa, is credited with composing over eighty works in both Sanskrit and Old Gujarati. One of […]

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Strength in Numbers: How Women’s Networks Close India’s Political Gender Gap

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Tue, Feb 28, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Soledad Prillaman, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University In India there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation, despite several decades of targeted policy interventions. Women’s political participation is important not […]

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Citizenship Denied: A Microhistory of Indian Immigration in the Early Twentieth Century

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Wed, Feb 8, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K262
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Hardeep Dhillon, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Harvard University; SAI Graduate Student Associate Discussants: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University In the early twentieth century, immigration from Asia to the U.S. propelled local, national, and […]

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Summer Grant Opportunities Open House

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Thu, Jan 26, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Come hear about SAI Summer Funding opportunities, including research and internship grants, and ask any last minute questions about the application process. Deadline to apply: February 15, 2017

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Getting Better: Stories from KEM Hospital and GS Medical College, India

WHEN
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm

VENUE
14 Story Street, 4th Floor

ADDRESS
Cambridge, MA

Student Event Join us for a film screening, dinner, & discussion with Gulserene Dastur, the filmmaker, & Dr. David Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine “The Hospital that never turns anyone away”: A 2200 bed, state-run hospital which treats 1.7 million people a year – overcrowded, used and abused, KEM Hospital […]

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Gandhi’s Forgotten Campaign: The Abolition of Indenture and the Mahatma

WHEN
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K262
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Student Event Presented by the South Asia Across Disciplines Workshop Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History; Professor (by courtesy) of English and Women’s Studies; Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (2015-), University of Michigan Respondents: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History Mou Banerjee, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Harvard University Cosponsored […]

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The 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Perspectives on Response, Reconstruction, Accountability

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Thu, Apr 28, 2016 from 05:45pm — 07:00pm

VENUE
Kresge G2
Harvard School of Public Health

ADDRESS
Kresge G2
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA

Cosponsored Events Join us to remember the lives lost, and to continue the conversation on the public health impact of, and response to, disasters. is event brings together academics, practitioners and students to examine lessons on earthquake response, aid accountability, and health systems strengthening following the disaster that rocked Nepal on April 25, 2015 Bijay Acharya, MD, Massachusetts General […]

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The Power of Political Connections in Local Elections – Evidence from Pakistan

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Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 07:30pm

VENUE
Littauer Building, Room 324
The Fainsod Room
Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Littauer Building, Room 324
The Fainsod Room
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

Student Event Pakistan in Focus: A student speaker series on Pakistan-based policy research. Asad Liaquat, PhD Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Cosponsored with the Harvard Pakistan Student Group and the Pakistan Caucus at HKS

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Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History

WHEN
Thu, Mar 10, 2016 - Fri, Mar 11, 2016

VENUE
Lower Level Conference Room
27 Kirkland Street

ADDRESS
Lower Level Conference Room
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Student Event ‘Global and International History: The Economic Dimension’ Financial, economic and political-economy issues have played a fundamental role in world development and continue to do so. They involve multiple agents besides the nation state; they prompt refined policy analysis; and they challenge historians to turn to the broadest range of sources and demand interdisciplinary […]

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Between State and Faith: Aspects of Personal Laws in Colonial India

WHEN
Sat, Apr 2, 2016 from 11:30am — 01:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Student Event Tanika Sarkar, Professor of Modern History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Hardeep Dhillon, PhD candidate in History, Harvard University Cosponsored with The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University

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Civil Service Reforms in Pakistan

WHEN
Tue, Mar 1, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K354
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA

Student Seminar Ashan Iqbal, Minister of Planning, Development, and Reform Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Michael Callen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Pakistani snacks will be served. Cosponsored with the Harvard Pakistan Student Group and the Pakistan Caucus at HKS

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