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21st Century Identification Systems: Data, Politics, Protection

WHEN
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 03:00pm, ET —
Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 02:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S010

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

As part of its project mission, the Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights in collaboration with other Harvard schools will convene a high profile international conference of experts drawn from academia, government, business and civil society to examine the scientific, technical, social and political aspects of national ID systems. This two and half-day […]

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Empirical Research on Citizen Empowerment in India

WHEN
Thu, Nov 19, 2015 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 Sarika Gupta, PhD candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Graduate Student Associate, South Asia Institute Discussant: Radhika Jain, PhD Candidate, Harvard University This talk will present an overview of an ongoing field project in Delhi aimed at understanding barriers citizens face in successfully taking up government welfare programs. Specifically, it will discuss […]

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Film Screening and Q+A: Final Solution

WHEN
Wed, Nov 18, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S010

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

Film Event Rakesh Sharma, Film Director 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 Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 – July 2003, the film graphically documents the […]

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Webinar: Mobile Health at the Nashik Kumbh Mela

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Tue, Nov 17, 2015 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

Webinar Satchit Balsari, Chief, Weill Cornell Global Emergency Medicine Division, and Faculty, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The world’s largest gathering of humanity happens every 12 years on the banks of the Godavari in Nashik, and will reach its peak in August and September, when over a […]

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Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia

WHEN
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
WCC 2009, Harvard Law School

ADDRESS
WCC 2009, Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Book Talk Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Rohit De, Associate Research Scholar in Law, Yale Nick Robinson, Resident Fellow, Center on the Legal Profession Cosponsored with Harvard Law School Although the field of constitutional law has become increasingly comparative in recent years, its geographic focus has remained limited. South Asia, despite […]

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The Other One Percent: Indians in America

WHEN
Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Devesh Kapur, Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India, Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania  Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Devesh Kapur was appointed Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in […]

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CANCELLED: To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story

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Tue, Nov 10, 2015, ET

This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.  Book Talk Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Environment and Rural Development Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School To The Brink and Back is an account of the events leading to the path-breaking economic liberalisation unveiled by Rao’s government with […]

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The Capitals of Postcolonial Pakistan: Urbanism as a discourse of Territorial Selfhood

WHEN
Mon, Nov 9, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

Urbanization Seminar Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor The University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In the two decades following the creation of Pakistan, the government embarked on a lofty project to establish Muslim nationalism as a two pronged symbol: a […]

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Viewpoints: Kumbh Mela, Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity

WHEN
Fri, Nov 6, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

VENUE
Asia Society, New York

ADDRESS
725 Park Ave
New York, NY 10021

Dhruv Kazi, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Center for Healthcare Value, University of California San Francisco, Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital Tarun Khanna, Director of Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Facilitated by Meera Gandhi, CEO and […]

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Online Book Group: Sea of Poppies

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Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 07:00pm, ET

Click here to watch a recording of the presentation. Join Global Studies Outreach at Harvard for an online discussion of Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh led by Professor Sunil Amrith of the Departments of History and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Please note that given the length of the novel we will structure the discussion based on the assumption […]

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