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Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity

WHEN
Mon, Jan 18, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:30pm, ET

VENUE
CSMVS Museum, Mumbai

ADDRESS
CSMVS Museum, Mumbai
159-161 Mahatma Gandhi Road
Fort, Mumbai - 400023, Maharashtra, India

Special Event Welcome by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Director, CSMVS Museum Introductory remarks by Vikram Gandhi, Harvard South Asia Institute Advisory Council Member; Founder, Asha Impact Diana Eck, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Harvard Divinity School Devesh Chaturvedi, Divisional Commissioner, Allahabad, at the 2013 Kumbh Mela Satchit Balsari, Weill Cornell Global Emergency Medicine Division; Harvard T.H. […]

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Capacity Building Workshop on Rural Livelihoods Creations in the Indian Crafts Sector

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Mon, Jan 11, 2016 - Thu, Jan 14, 2016, ET

VENUE
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

ADDRESS
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Livelihood Creation Workshop The Tata Trusts and SAI have collaborated for the Project on ‘Livelihood Creation in India through Social Entrepreneurship and Skill Development’. This Capacity Building Workshop is for organizations from the Handicrafts and Handlooms sectors. Mukti Khaire, Faculty Chair; Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director, Harvard University […]

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Webinar: Merchandising and Marketing of Handcrafted Goods

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Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 07:30am, ET

Livelihood Creation Webinar Merchandising and Marketing of Handcrafted Goods: Challenges and Solutions in the Physical and Online Markets Thursday, January 7, 2015. 6.00 pm to 7:00 pm IST The webinar will address: Innovation in design and product ranges and supply chain Capturing larger audiences and potential customers online and offline Principles of merchandizing that can add […]

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Mental Health in Disaster Response – Local and International Perspectives

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Wed, Dec 16, 2015 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

The Aman Foundation and the Harvard University South Asia Institute have co-sponsored this conference on mental health in the wake of natural and manmade disasters in Pakistan. Coping in the Wake of Disasters: Long term Effects of Traumatic “Life-Changing” Situations Sharmeen Khan, Clinical Psychologist Sharmeen Khan is a Karachi-based mental health professional and a human rights […]

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Of Sympathy and Solidarity: Japanese Buraku, South Asian Dalit, and Grassroots Politics across National Boundaries

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Fri, Dec 4, 2015 from 04:15pm — 05:45pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Japan Forum Joseph Hankins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation and the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations   

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Webinar: Handcrafted aesthetic goods and markets

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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 from 08:30am — 09:30am, ET

SAI and the Tata Trusts invite you to a webinar on ‘Handcrafted aesthetic goods and markets: Bridging paradigms for livelihood regeneration’ Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School. The webinar will address: India’s handicrafts and handlooms crisis Approaches to regenerate the sector How the gap between the handcrafted paradigm and business paradigm can be bridged […]

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Aid and poverty: Are grants and loans different?

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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Javed Younas, Aman Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School The aid allocation literature reveals a negative association between the recipients’ income and aid inflows, implying that, all else equal, poorer nations receive more aid. This literature has assumed that two […]

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A memory, a monument, a material

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Wed, Dec 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K262
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Arts Seminar Basir Mahmood, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: 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 Basir Mahmood, recipient of South Asia Institute 2015 Emerging Artist Award, will be offering insights […]

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Reflections on Migration and Indentured Servitude: A Talk by Gaiutra Bahadur

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Wed, Dec 2, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Student Event Gaiutra Bahadur, Author Chair: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History, Harvard University In this talk, Bahadur will offer her reflections on migration and indentured servitude. Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning American journalist who writes frequently about migration, literature and gender. Her reporting, criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Dissent, History […]

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