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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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Wed, Feb 15, 2017 from 07:00pm — 07:30pm
Special Event About the group discussion: 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 […]
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Wed, Feb 15, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Partition Seminar Catherine Warner, College Fellow in South Asian Studies and History, Harvard University When Partition is viewed from the lens of gender history, what happens? Is this the same history with women’s voices added and silences interpreted, or does it offer alternate scales and geographies? To what extent did Partition shape the gendering of citizenship […]
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Wed, Feb 8, 2017 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm
The seminar will take place in CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA. Partition Seminar Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights The seminar will explore the story of the mass migration of Hindus/Sikhs […]
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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 from 07:00pm — 07:30pm
Special Event About the group discussion: 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 […]
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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Partition Seminar Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History, Harvard University Professor Amrith will give a broad overview of South Asian political history, including a history of British colonial rule in South Asia, the place of South Asia within the empire, and specifically governance policies and systemic factors that contributed […]
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Mon, Nov 7, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Cosponsored Event Sharon Tai, Research Editor, SHARIAsource Ali Hashmi, MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate (2015-2016) and SHARIAsource Editor/Data Scientist Osama Siddique, Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights, Harvard Law School, Law and Policy Research Network This talk focuses on using corpus analysis as a research method. Media discourse on legislative issues provides a […]
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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
Urbanization Seminar Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design This panel brings together three urban scholars […]
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Thu, Mar 31, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Umar Saif, Chairman, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB); Vice Chancellor, ITU Chair: Karim R. Lakhani, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Pakistan is the 6th largest country in the world by population. Over half of the population lives below $2 poverty line; 40% of the adult population is unable to read or […]
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