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Wed, Feb 7, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Drawing on fieldwork in a range of communities in Delhi, Heller documents inequity and exclusion within basic service distribution across the city.
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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Coins are small metallic documents of the past. In the images and legends impressed upon them, they contain clues that can give us insights into the times in which they were created and used. In this talk, examples from ancient India will be used to show how the unpuzzling of these clues can help us bring back forgotten dynasties, recreate historical events and shine a light on political and economic conditions.
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Mon, Mar 27, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Madeeha Syed, Pakistani Journalist Marco Werman, The World Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Join Pakistani journalist Madeeha Syed, Marco Werman from Public Radio International’s The World, and Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, for […]
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Wed, Mar 22, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Partition Seminar Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliated Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Chen will be speaking from a personal perspective, as a long-term resident of India and Pakistan who […]
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Wed, Mar 8, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Partition Seminar Lucy Chester, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Over a period of six weeks in the summer of 1947, Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India and had no experience in boundary-making, drew a 2500-mile-long line that would divide India and Pakistan. This talk will examine the pseudo-judicial framework and deeply […]
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Wed, Mar 1, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Partition Seminar 5:00 – 6:00 PM: The Short and Long Run Impacts of the Partition Prashant Bharadwaj, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego This paper examines how areas affected by the partition fare in the long run. Using migrant presence as a proxy for the intensity of the […]
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Wed, Mar 1, 2017 from 07:00pm — 07:30pm
Please join us after the Seminar Series event for a brief group discussion to share reflections on the presentation. The newest initiative, the 1947 Partition Stories ‘Looking Back’ project, is a collaborative effort to extend the lessons from Partition into today. Our goal is to reflect on how the consequences of Partition have manifested and extend […]
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Wed, Feb 22, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Partition Seminar Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Given that Partition is widely considered to have resulted due to religious differences, it is critical to explore the interplay between religion and nationalism in pre-Partition rhetoric, in the post-Partition riots, and in the actual migration process. It is interesting, also, […]
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