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Energizing India: Scenarios for India’s Energy Future

WHEN
Mon, Apr 17, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
Littauer 280, Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Littauer 280
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Speaker: Suman Bery, former chief economist, Shell Corporation Moderator: Rohit Chandra, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Suman Bery will present some of the results and larger ideas of a joint study conducted by Shell and various Indian think tanks about potential scenarios for India’s energy future. He will discuss India’s energy mix, constraints and possibilities on its […]

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South Asia ConnectED Conference

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Sat, Apr 15, 2017 from 08:30am — 05:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event   South Asia ConnectED April 15, 2017, 8:30 a.m – 5:00p.m, HGSE South Asia ConnectED is the first ever South Asia-centric education conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Explore catalyzing for scale in education policy, social change and education technology with leaders from South Asia. Join John Floretta (Associate Director of Policy […]

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Design Thinking Workshop for Educators

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Sat, Apr 15, 2017 from 02:00pm — 03:45pm, ET

Co-sponsored Event Explore design thinking through the lens of an educator: Sanjli Gidwaney, Director, Design For Change, USA. Limited seats only, so be quick to register here: bit.ly/designthinkingconnected Organizers: This conference is being conducted by HGSE South Asia Education Initiative, a student body at HGSE, aiming to build a bridge between students and faculty in Harvard and beyond […]

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From Story to Book (Kahani Se Kitab Tak)

WHEN
Thu, Apr 13, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S450

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S450
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Babar Ali Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University From Story to Book (Kahani Se Kitab Tak) is a graduated reading program to introduce Urdu classical literature and folklore to native language speakers, and offer a new language testing […]

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Kultar’s Mime: The Hidden Story of the 1984 Delhi Pogrom as Told by a Jewish Art Collective

WHEN
Sun, Apr 9, 2017 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Cosponsored Event You are invited to the Harvard performance of Kultar’s Mime, a play that blends painting, poetry, theater and music to tell the stories of Sikh children who survived the 1984 Delhi massacre that was organized in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination. A collective of young Jewish artists decides to commemorate […]

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Enfranchising Your Own? Experimental Evidence on Bureaucrat Diversity and Election Bias

WHEN
Fri, Apr 7, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Yusuf Neggers, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University Simon Chauchard, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Dartmouth College Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Read the seminar paper. Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the […]

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Coins as Historical Puzzles: Examples from Ancient India

WHEN
Wed, Apr 5, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Coins are small metallic documents of the past. In the images and legends impressed upon them, they contain clues that can give us insights into the times in which they were created and used. In this talk, examples from ancient India will be used to show how the unpuzzling of these clues can help us bring back forgotten dynasties, recreate historical events and shine a light on political and economic conditions.

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Old Stories in New Moments: Digambara Jain Rāmāyaṇa Literature in Early Modernity

WHEN
Thu, Mar 30, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Gregory Clines, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Catherine Hartmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion The fifteenth-century author Brahma Jinadāsa, a member of the Digambara Balatkāra Gaṇa, is credited with composing over eighty works in both Sanskrit and Old Gujarati. One of […]

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Artist Talk: Landscape of Abstraction

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Thu, Mar 30, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Arts Seminar Madhu Das, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Susan Bean, Independent Scholar and Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies Madhu Das is a multi-disciplinary Visual Artist based in Mumbai, India; his artistic practice is primarily concerned with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that […]

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Artist Talk: Rabindra Shrestha

WHEN
Tue, Mar 28, 2017 from 01:00pm — 02:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS S001, 1730 Cambridge Street

ADDRESS
CGIS S001
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

Arts Seminar Rabindra Shrestha, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Rabindra Shrestha is a Nepalese visual artist. Installation, detail pen and ink drawing, painting, traditional painting (Paubha), illustration, cartoon, and ceramic art are the different mediums of his visuals expressions. Most of his art […]

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