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Empire from the Edges: Shi‘i and Messianic Challenges to Mughal Authority

WHEN
Thu, Apr 2, 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

Updated location: CGIS South S153 Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Asian Studies Program; Affiliated Faculty, Islamic Studies Program; Co-Director Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt University. Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal […]

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Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges Planning and design processes under the aegis of transnational organizations: case studies in India and in the South-East Asia region

WHEN
Tue, Mar 31, 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 Speaker: Maristella Casciato, Associate Director, Research – Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. The lecture Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges sheds light on the complex processes of decolonization after […]

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Digital Archives and Public History: Documenting and Exhibiting South Asian American Stories

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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI and MIT-India present: Lecture Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samip Mallick, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive Pawan Dhingra, Founding Curator of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation Professor and Director, Department of Sociology, Tufts University Moderated by Vivek Bald, 2014-15 Harvard University Charles […]

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Myanmar’s Delicate Imbalance: the predicament of the short game vs the long game in a complicated neighborhood (or, why the ‘environment’ gets a back seat)”

WHEN
Fri, Mar 27, 2015 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

Robert Anderson, Development & Sustainability Program, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Late this year Myanmar will stage elections, again. There are welcome changes which make this time quite different from the earlier two contests. Reflecting further back ten years, however, even those limited changes were very hard to foresee. Anderson will review some […]

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The Prisoner

WHEN
Fri, Mar 27, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S354

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S354
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

SAI Book Talk Omar Shahid Hamid, Author Chair: Anila Daulatzai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School Omar Shahid Hamid has served with the Karachi police for twelve years, most recently as head of counterterrorism. During his service, he has been actively targeted by various terrorist groups and organizations. He was […]

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Silencing India’s Daughter

WHEN
Thu, Mar 26, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

VENUE
Starr Auditorium
Harvard Kennedy School

ADDRESS
Starr Auditorium
Harvard Kennedy School
79 J. F. Kennedy Street,
Cambridge, MA

6:00 – 7:00 PM Documentary Screening 7:00 – 8:00 PM Panel Discussion Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Diane Rosenfeld, Lecturer on Law and Director of the Gender Violence Program, Harvard Law School Beena Sarwar, Editor, Aman ki Asha, Jang Group Pakistan; former Nieman Fellow and Fellow at the Carr Center for Human […]

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The Politickle Pickle: A Conversation on Indo-US Relations

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Wed, Mar 25, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
Elliot Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall

ADDRESS
Elliot Lyman Room
Longfellow Hall
Harvard Graduate School of Education
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA

SAI Special Event Tanvi Madan, PhD Fellow, Foreign Policy Director, The India Project The Brookings Institution Shivshankar Menon, Former Indian NSA and Foreign Secretary Chair: Nicholas Burns, Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Cosponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the WCFIA Fellows Program. Supported by the Hindustan Times and the South […]

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Outlook for public health spending in India and the role of non-health sectors in improving health

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Wed, Mar 25, 2015 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET

VENUE
FXB Building, Room G13
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

ADDRESS
FXB Building, Room G13
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA

SAI Global Health Event  Ramanan Laxminarayan, Vice President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India; Director, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington DC; Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University Professor Laxminarayan is Vice President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India. He is an economist and […]

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The Silk Road to South Asia through Bangladesh

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Tue, Mar 24, 2015 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 Hasna Moudud, SAI Research Affiliate; Former Visiting Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science This talk will examine the Tea Horse Road, from Yunnan tea country that travels through Tibet, India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, which was once one of the […]

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Sufi Shrines and the Secular State

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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Anna B. Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, North Carolina State University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Sufi tomb shrines in India are well-known for […]

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