Mapping India’s Kumbh Mela: Application of Research from the Field
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Mon, Sep 16, 2013
South Asia Institute Workshop By invitation only.
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If Women Governed Forests: A History of Absence, The Impact of Presence
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Thu, Sep 12, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Can the gender composition of groups managing local forests affect conservation outcomes? This simple question has been little addressed, despite the substantial literature on women’s […]
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Sat, Sep 7, 2013 from 02:30pm — 04:00pm, ET
Social Enterprise
Imran Ali, Professor of Business Policy, KSBL
Chair: Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Cosponsored by the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN)
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Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:00am, ET — Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:00pm, ET
South Asia Institute Workshop By invitation only.
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Thu, Aug 1, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
Dor (“String”), a 2006 Indian film, is a story about two women who come from different backgrounds and how fate brings them together. Meera, a young woman who becomes a widow shortly after marriage, is trapped by tradition. Zeenat faces the daunting task of saving the life of her husband, who is on trial for murder. […]
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Thu, Jul 25, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
Ontorjatra (‘The Inner Journey’) is a 2006 Bangla film exploring complex issues of identity and dislocation in a diaspora world. A divorced mother and her son return to Bangladesh after 15 years in London after the ex-husband’s sudden death and funeral. The story follows the transforming experience of the mother and son as they come […]
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Thu, Jul 18, 2013 from 07:45pm — 10:00pm, ET
Join current Harvard students and alumni for a night of socializing and networking. Open to Harvard students and alumni.
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Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:30pm, ET
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is a based on a Bengali novel by Bimal Mitra, providing a glimpse into the fall of feudalism in Bengal during the era of the British Raj. The film explores a platonic relationship between the lonely and beautiful wife of an aristocrat and a hard-working, part-time servant. The film has been […]
More InfoGender Justice, Criminal Law, and Curricular Reforms Conference
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Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:00pm, ET — Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 05:00pm, ET
This conference will be the first step in convening a group of stakeholders from the public and private sectors, the academy, service providers and NGOs. The meeting will provide an opportunity for information exchange and discussion across a range of issues – legislative, educational, policy and service oriented – relevant to sexual assault and gender violence in India and, more generally, South Asia.
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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
DAIRA (“Circle”) is a 2002 Pakistani movie based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, DAIRA is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled.” It is a story of the vicious circle of love, lust, longing, and […]
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