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Thu, Nov 13, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
This event has been cancelled. Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador of Pakistan to the US and Britain Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
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Mon, Nov 10, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Urbanization Seminar Please note the updated date and location. Vikram Bhatt, Professor, School of Architecture and Director, Minimum Cost Housing Group, McGill University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Jugaad is a Hindi word meaning a clever improvisation […]
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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]
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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
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Larsen Hall 106
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Larsen Hall 106
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
Shridhar Venkat, CEO, Akshaya Patra Foundation; Eisenhower Fellow The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest NGO-directed school meal program, feeding 1.4 million children every day. To advance its vision that “No child in India will be deprived of education because of hunger”, the Foundation operates out of 22 locations throughout India, serving almost 11,000 […]
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Tue, Nov 4, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
SAI Book Talk Rohini Mohan, Author V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Author of Love Marriage Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School Book sale to follow event. For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army […]
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Tue, Nov 4, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
SAI Arts Initiative Seminar Pablo Bartholomew, Photojournalist Discussant: Bridget Corbett Hanna, Post-Doc, Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide Factory, now owned by Dow Chemicals, caused the death of thousands of inhabitants of Bhopal and incapacitated the living who have […]
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Mon, Nov 3, 2014 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S010
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CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
SAI Mahindra Lecture Nandan Nilekani, Former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; Co-founder of Infosys; Author of ‘Imagining India’ Reception to follow. Read: Creating unique digital identities
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Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 04:15pm, ET
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Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room 202
ADDRESS
Tozzer Anthropology Building
Room 202
21 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Vyjayanthi Rao, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research in New York Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Cosponsored by the Harvard University Social Anthropology Colloquium
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Sun, Nov 2, 2014 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
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Harvard Memorial Church (Harvard Yard)
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Harvard Memorial Church
Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA
SAI Community Event An evening with: Folk Minstrel Paban Das Baul; Poet and songwriter Prthwiraj Choudhury; Author Mimlu Sen; and Music producer Dipankar Jojo Chaki ‘Music Stories of Bengal’ is an experiment in bringing live Bengali music of various genres together. This Project is the brainchild of Dipankar Jojo Chaki, Indian National Award Winning Music Producer. Paban is […]
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Fri, Oct 31, 2014 - Sun, Nov 2, 2014, ET
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Brown University
Pakistani Film Festival Cosponsored by the Brown University India Initiative Fri Oct 31: Hallow’s Eve: Chainsaw Spatter 6:00 pm Zibaah Khana (77minutes) Sat Nov 1: Saint’s Day: Directors in Conversation 11:20 am A Brief History of Pakistani Cinema Lecture by Iftikhar Dadi 12:00 pm Josh (104 minutes) 2:00 pm Q+A with Josh Director, Iram Parveen […]
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