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Mon, Apr 25, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Muslim Societies in South Asia and Art Seminar Ali Aftab Saeed with Saad Sultan, Musicians Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Satire is one of the most prominent forms of expression in Pakistani art. Most of the television hits that have surfaced […]
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Mon, Apr 18, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Book Talk Samanth Subramanian, Author Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School In the summer of 2009, the leader of the Tamil Tigers was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years it had stretched its fingers: into the bustle […]
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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Urbanization Seminar Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant structuring becomes one part of this imagination (No […]
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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Urbanization Seminar Henrik Valeur, Architect-Urbanist, Founder and Creative Director of UiD Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Can India use urbanization as a driver of economic, human and social development like China has done? How can Indian cities be made more inclusive, productive and livable? Are there any […]
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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S354
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Muslim Societies in South Asia Anand V. Taneja, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Anthropology, Asian Studies Program, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Relations between religions in South Asia have been seen as marked by either competition or […]
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Mon, Feb 1, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S354
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Mircea Raianu, PhD Candidate, History Department, FAS; SAI Graduate Student Associate Chair Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences From one of many merchant families in the port city of Bombay in the mid-nineteenth century, Tata became India’s largest and most influential business […]
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Mon, Nov 23, 2015 from 05:30pm — 06:30pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Charles Shao, Founder and Executive Chairman of Huaxia Dairy Farm Ltd Discussant: Ateya Khorakiwala, PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Charles Shao is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Huaxia Dairy Farm Ltd. Huaxia operates three dairy farms […]
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Wed, Oct 28, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Harvard/MIT Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samia Khatun, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne Discussant: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Australian deserts today are dotted with the remains of 19th century mosques. Built by South Asian merchants and workers in the era of the Australian camel trade, 1860 – 1930, these […]
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Mon, Oct 26, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S354
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CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Author, Translator, Storyteller Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Click here to read an event summary. From 2014-2015 author, translator and storyteller Musharraf Ali Farooqi led the highly successful ‘Leading Through Teaching’ storytelling workshop for […]
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