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Thu, Oct 6, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Film Screening Subsari Krishnan, Filmmaker Shankar Ramaswami, Lecturer on South Asian Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University On 18th February 1983, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, more than 2000 Muslims were killed in the town of Nellie and its surrounding villages in Assam, India. People’s homes were burnt down and their fields destroyed. Most of […]
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Sun, May 15, 2016 at 02:00pm
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CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Poems of all languages are invited for recitation. All are welcome. Cosponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies and the South Asian Poets of New England For questions, please contact: Bijoy Misra, bmisra@fas.harvard.edu Chandu Shah, Bostonwale@gmail.com
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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 - Sun, Mar 6, 2016
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
This conference is a response to rapidly expanding interests in the musical traditions of South Asia within the Society for Ethnomusicology and a recognition that South Asia has always been part of a larger historical network involving Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. As the richness of scholarship on the music of these regions deepens, it becomes increasingly useful […]
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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Film Screening Pankaj Butalia, Documentary Filmmaker Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School Join filmmaker Pankaj Butalia for a screening of his film “The Textures of Loss,” followed by a discussion […]
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Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:30pm —
Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 02:30pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Student Event “Re-thinking Local” will examine how architects are developing new models of locally-based design practice given the changing realities of urbanization around the world, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia. These two public events feature Vo Trong Nghia, the most prolific contemporary architect in Vietnam, and Marina Tabassum, the leading female architect […]
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Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 03:00pm —
Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 02:00pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
As part of its project mission, the Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights in collaboration with other Harvard schools will convene a high profile international conference of experts drawn from academia, government, business and civil society to examine the scientific, technical, social and political aspects of national ID systems. This two and half-day […]
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Wed, Nov 18, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Film Event Rakesh Sharma, Film Director Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 – July 2003, the film graphically documents the […]
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Fri, Sep 25, 2015 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Film Screening and Discussion Rahul Roy, Director Chair: Shankar Ramaswami, Lecturer on South Asian Studies, Harvard University 147 workers of India’s largest automobile manufacturing company Maruti Suzuki are on trial for the murder of a senior manager and 2500 workers dismissed. It has been two and a half years and the case drags on. Their bail […]
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Tue, Sep 22, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Film Screening and Gender Seminar Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangirpuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is changing rapidly… girls seem to be very bold… stable jobs are not easy to come by… […]
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