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Mon, Apr 23, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
During this interdisciplinary discussion, the four panelists will discuss the ways that cultural practices and social structures intersect with biomedicine and genetics. Specifically, they will be examining the ways that endogamy and caste structures in South Asian contexts have produced implications for health practices and medical predispositions. Ultimately, the discussion will touch upon the ways […]
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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 from 12:15pm — 02:00pm, ET
Satchit Balsari, FXB Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty, Emergency Medicine, HMS/BIDM Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, SAI Moderator: Yee Htun, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School SAI Director Tarun Khanna and FXB Fellow Satchit Balsari will run a discussion that focuses on the effects of forced migration, the 1947 Partition […]
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Fri, Apr 13, 2018 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm, ET
Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs Muhammad Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University Long the scourge of developing countries, fake pills are now increasingly common in the United States. The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use has led to […]
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Thu, Apr 12, 2018 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
CO-SPONSORED EVENT Tariq Modood is the Founding Director, Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol University In 1997, the Runnymede Trust in London recognized Tariq Modood’s alternative definition of Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism in the context of a multicultural society. Since then, this definition has emerged as the dominant interpretation of Islamophobia in […]
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Wed, Apr 11, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
SAI SEMINAR SERIES Gustav Papanek, President of the Boston Institute for Developing Economies; Professor of Economics Emeritus, Boston University Chair: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, SAI Partition left Pakistan almost bereft of manufacturing – importing most consumer goods, including matches, soap, cloth and yarn, and virtually all machinery. Gustav Papanek […]
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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
FILM SCREENING Soz-A Ballad of Maladies Tushar Madhav, Director: A Ballad of Maladies Sarvnik Kaur, Writer: A Ballad of Maladies Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University This film is a portrait of poets, musicians, and artists who have turned […]
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Fri, Apr 6, 2018 from 03:30pm — 05:00pm, ET
This talk will discuss 16th and early-17th century album and manuscript paintings made for Muslim patrons where the Nāth yogi appears as an emblem and surrogate for the Islamic spiritual path of taṣawwuf (Sufism), an archetype for the mystical traveler (sālik) and a figure of spiritual longing.
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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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