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Wed, Apr 17, 2019 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm
Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her work examines the interplay of gender, race, religion, and power in transnational contexts, particularly in relation to Muslim populations. Dr. Khoja-Moolji is the author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia. […]
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Wed, Feb 27, 2019 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Roluahpuia, the Mittal Institute’s Raghunathan Family Fellow, will discuss his research into the relationship between orality and nationalism at two levels through the lens of the Mizo case in northeast India. The first level surrounds the process of creating a vernacular language, involving the reframing and reconstruction of nationalist ideas. The second is the irrepressibility […]
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Tue, Feb 19, 2019 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm
Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, will discuss his new book entitled “The Future Is Asian,” in a talk chaired by Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of The Mittal Institute. This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center. About the book: “The ‘Asian […]
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Wed, Jan 30, 2019 from 04:30pm — 05:30pm
The Mittal Institute’s summer student grant applications for 2019 are now open. If you’re a Harvard undergraduate or graduate student looking to fund your research, internship, or language study in South Asia this summer, the deadline to apply for a grant is February 8. Come hear about The Mittal Institute’s funding opportunities for Summer 2019. At our Open House, […]
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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm
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Join visiting scholar Chinmay Tumbe and moderator Ian Talbot for a discussion about the great Indian Migration wave. In this seminar, Tumbe provides an overview of his book, India Moving: A History of Migration, that attempts to explain when, how and why people have moved to, from and within the subcontinent over centuries. It reveals one of […]
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Wed, Oct 3, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) surveyed leaders from 604 Rohingya hamlets in Myanmar’s Rakhine state encompassing more than 916,000 people. The findings, coupled with in-depth interviews and forensic medical examinations of Rohingya survivors, point to a widespread and systematic pattern of targeted violence – including rapes and killings of women, men, and children – that drove more than 720,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. Dr. Parveen Parmar and Dr. Jen Leigh will present the findings of these studies.
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Wed, Sep 19, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm
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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, Apr 27, 2018 from 12:15pm — 02:00pm
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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