Even after 70 years of India’s emancipation it has remained plagued by the caste system and untouchability is its worst form of manifestation. Critically acclaimed director Stalin K looks at the insidious ways in which the social marginalization of a quarter of India’s population is sustained with the collusion of state agencies. […]
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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 04:00pm, ET — Mon, Apr 9, 2018, ET
The SAI Spring Art Exhibition features 2D and 3D art and artifacts inspired by Harvard students who traveled to South Asia sponsored by Harvard SAI travel grants. Some highlights include children’s picture books written in the Indigenous languages of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, photographs of fallen mosques in Myanmar and candid photos of workers […]
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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
The panel will discuss conceptions of “citizenship” in India as related to caste and indigeneity. The discussion will be an opportunity to explore the ways that citizenship and belonging have been constructed through exclusion and marginalization based on social, political, and ethnic lines. Rajyashri Goody, Visiting Artist, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University Suraj […]
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Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:15pm, ET
Glenda M. Gloria, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler, Philippines social news network Shalini Singh, Features Reporter, New Delhi, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; founding trustee at the People’s Archive of Rural India Bonny Symons-Brown, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor, Jakarta, Indonesia Edward Wong, The New York Times; […]
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Thu, Mar 29, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Ziipao posits that road building has always been an act of power, which has at different times been leveraged to smooth relationships, secure borders, (dis)connect people, enable trade, create spaces of contestation, or dilute boundaries between varied ethnic groups.
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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
India’s National Capital Region now includes parts of four states and about 30 million people. It is in the vanguard of global urban change of a particular type—the rise of the colossal metropolis. What do we know and can say about its spatial structure (and change) and social structure (and change)? How well does existing “urban theory” prepare us for Delhi? To what extent does Delhi prepare us for a new “urban theory”? How much of it is global, how much Indian, and how much just Delhi itself?
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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 05:15pm — 07:00pm, ET
South Asia Across Disciplines Graduate Workshop Speaker: Vineeta Sinha, Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Discussant: Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School Using the history of colonial railway construction in Singapore and Malaysia as a lens, Prof. Sinha narrates the interlocking accounts of Indian labour migrations to these […]
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Dr. K. Thangaraj is a Senior Principal Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad. His main research interests are the origin of modern humans, cardiovascular diseases, mitochondrial disorders, male infertility, sex determination, forensic genetics and the Genetic basis of Ayurveda prakritis.
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Tue, Mar 27, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Ancient records of early Buddhism, recovered from Tibet, identify five great centres of learning a thousand years after the birth of Prince Gautama Buddha. Of the five, two are amongst the four hundred Buddhist sites in Bangladesh; Somapura Mahavihara (Paharpur) and Jaggadala. These centers could not have thrived without patronage and proximity of the Silk Road which brought trade and Buddhism close together. Hasna will discuss a trip she took in 2015 and 2017 to Mongolia in search of a connection between Mongolia and India via Bangladesh.
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Mon, Mar 26, 2018 from 12:00pm — 01:00pm, ET
Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings, George H. Gadbois, Jr., edited and introduced by Vikram Raghavan and Vasujith Ram (Oxford Univ. Press 2018). Book Talk Panelists include: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin School of […]
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