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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Authority, Action, Criticism: Gandhi and Constructive Satyagraha Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies What is the structure of criticism embedded in Gandhian forms of action? The lecture considers the ways in which action and criticism can be […]
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Tue, Dec 4, 2012 from 04:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Please join us to celebrate the holidays!
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Fri, Nov 30, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Theologies of Migrant Workers in Delhi Shankar Ramaswami, Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Tue, Nov 27, 2012 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Indian Education As Seen By An American Educator on His First Trip To India Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Chair: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School and Director of the South Asia Initiative In January-February 2012, accompanied by his wife Ellen Winner and his son Andrew Gardner, […]
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Tue, Nov 27, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Nadeem Hussain, Founder, President and CEO, Tameer Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Pakistan Nadeem Hussain will discuss the financial revolution which the Tameer Bank is bringing to Pakistan by financially empowering people at the grassroots level, including innovative work such as branchless banking and solar energy. Discussant: Professor Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Nasim Zehra, […]
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Mon, Nov 26, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Naxalism and Orissa: Divergent Conflicts, Political Economy, and Minoritization Angana Chatterji, Co-chair, Research Project on Armed Conflict and People’s Rights, Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, University of California at Berkeley Neat and Laundered Middle Classes and Third Gender Nepal Communist party-United Marxist Leninist: Masculinity and Politics in Contemporary Nepal Sanjeev Uprety, Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu; […]
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Fri, Nov 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Vernacular Political Economy in Colonial Bengal Andrew Sartori, Associate Professor of History, New York University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Bengali agrarian politics of the late colonial period turned to a very great extent on debates over property. To make sense of the emergence […]
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Wed, Nov 14, 2012 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
Anirban Adhya, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Lawrence Tech College of Architecture and Design Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design For the City of Kolkata and Bengalis, Durga Pujo is a festival of its own. The festival is rooted in a social-cultural phenomenon that transcends religious […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
Najam Ahmed Shah, Additional Secretary in Government of Punjab, served as the Director/CEO of the Food Directorate prior to coming to USA on Eisenhower Fellowships* last month. The Punjab Food Directorate is responsible for food security for 9 million people of Punjab and oversees the operations, finances, procurement, storage, and sale and export of millions of […]
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Fri, Nov 9, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Beyond Sri Lanka’s War Against Terror: The Struggle for Sri Lanka’s Democracy Saliya Pieris, Attorney-at-Law, Chairman CFPS School of Law, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2012 Eisenhower Fellow Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School This talk will explain how developments in Sri Lanka, including the authoritarian executive Presidential Constitution in 1978, the war with the […]
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