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Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity

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Thu, May 19, 2016 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

VENUE
MFA, Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room (Meeting Room 156)

ADDRESS
Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room (Meeting Room 156)
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

Special Event Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, […]

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Development in Asia

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Fri, May 13, 2016 from 09:00am — 04:30pm, ET

Workshop for those teaching high school and middle school courses on South Asia. Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History, B.A., Yale University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University Cosponsored with Educators for Teaching South Asia, in conjunction with The Winsor School, Phillips Academy, and The Groton School Click here to learn more and register.

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Seed For Change Finalists Presentations

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Fri, May 6, 2016 from 03:15pm — 04:30pm, ET

VENUE
Thompson Room
Barker Center

ADDRESS
Thompson Room
Barker Center
12 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

Special Event The Harvard South Asia Institute competition awards prizes to interdisciplinary student projects that impact societal, economic, and environmental issues in India. The three finalist groups will present their project plans and a jury will award the grand prize of $40,000. GoMango: provides low-cost refrigerated transport to food producers in India Torr Energy: for-profit company that uses a series […]

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Webinar: Intellectual Property in Creative Industries

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Wed, May 4, 2016 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

Livelihood Creation Project Webinar Guriqbal Singh JAIYA, Director-Advisor to the Executive Director, WIPO Academy of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 5:30pm to 7:00pm IST (8:00am to 9:30am EST) Register here. This webinar will address: Differences between copyright, GI, trademark, and costs of certification Business advantages conferred by intellectual property certifications What kinds of handicrafts/handlooms products […]

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What is Islam? A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed

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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 from 01:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

VENUE
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

ADDRESS
Fong Auditorium
Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA

Featuring: Michael Cook, Islamic Studies Noah Feldman, Law Cemal Kafadar, History Gülru Necipoğlu, Art History Parimal Patil, South Asian Studies Nicholas Watson, Medieval Studies and Religion Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, the Committee on the Study of […]

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New Urbanism and Post-national Modernity: Capital, People and the State in Gurgaon, India

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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology, JNU, Delhi Chair:  Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This paper focuses upon new urban developments in India and suggests that an ethnographic account of this context provides fruitful […]

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Webinar: Social Enterprises in India: Some Guiding Principles for Scale and Impact

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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 from 10:00am — 11:00am, ET

Livelihood Creation Webinar 7:30pm to 8:30pm IST (10:00am to 11:00am ET) Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Please register here. Social Enterprises in India have been increasingly playing a transformative role in solving a number of issues in a sustainable manner. Their contribution is visible in areas as […]

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Conversation with Ambassador Richard Olson, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Thu, Apr 28, 2016 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET

VENUE
Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
Taubman Building
79 John F. Kennedy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

South Asia Week at Harvard Kennedy School As the spring fighting season in Afghanistan flares up again, following one of the most deadly Taliban attacks in Kabul in years on April 19, 2016 posing new challenges to the Afghan government and military, Ambassador Richard Olson discusses long-term plans for the wider region as part of the annual SOUTH […]

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