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Road Safety for All Symposium

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Mon, Apr 30, 2018 from 09:00am — 12:45pm, ET

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle Williams will kick off the program at 9:00 am with opening remarks. The symposium will feature two keynotes, delivered by Piyush Tewari, MPA and Adnan A. Hyder, MD, MPH, PhD,  and two panels of experts on Road Traffic Injury Prevention and Response. Continental Breakfast will be provided at 8:30 am and lunch will be provided at the conclusion of the program at 12:45 pm.

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Infrastructure Networks and Urban Inequality: The Political Geography of Water Flows in Bangalore

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Fri, Apr 27, 2018 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Infrastructure Networks and Urban Inequality: The Political Geography of Water Flows in Bangalore Alison Post, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Emmerich Davies, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education   Alison Post studies comparative political economy, focusing […]

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Coming Out and Coming Back: Rediscovering Hinduism After Coming Out

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Wed, Apr 25, 2018 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

Dr. Om Lala, MD, MBA, MPH ‘12, AB ‘06, former President of Dharma and Founder of the Harvard Interfaith Council, will begin by discussing his experience of grappling with his Hindu faith after coming out as gay. Treating Dr. Lala’s experience as a case study, the discussion will then ask broader questions about Hinduism, sexual […]

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Building Resilience through Mobile Money

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Mon, Apr 23, 2018 from 12:00pm — 01:00pm, ET

Can mobile money help the rural poor become more resilient to climate change shocks? Imtiaz ul Haq presents new evidence using satellite data from the world’s most successful mobile money market, Kenya, and discusses how the findings translate to South Asia. Imtiaz ul Haq, Aman Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor Of Economics At The Lahore University […]

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Are South Asians a Single Population? Insights from Culture, Genetics and Disease

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Mon, Apr 23, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

During this interdisciplinary discussion, the four panelists will discuss the ways that cultural practices and social structures intersect with biomedicine and genetics. Specifically, they will be examining the ways that endogamy and caste structures in South Asian contexts have produced implications for health practices and medical predispositions. Ultimately, the discussion will touch upon the ways […]

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Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar: Forced Migration in South Asia: Past and Present

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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 from 12:15pm — 02:00pm, ET

Satchit Balsari, FXB Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty, Emergency Medicine, HMS/BIDM Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, SAI Moderator: Yee Htun, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School  SAI Director Tarun Khanna and FXB Fellow Satchit Balsari will run a discussion that focuses on the effects of forced migration, the 1947 Partition […]

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Seventy Years on: Pakistan’s Perils to Democracy

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Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:15pm, ET

Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; former Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Uganda and China Chair:  Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Lakshmi […]

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Visiting Artists Seminar: Revelations: Reclaiming South Asian Narratives

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Tue, Apr 17, 2018 from 05:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

This exhibit explores possibilities that lie in making traditionally invisible stories and narratives visible, from tea garden workers in Bangladesh; personal accounts of trauma and healing after disasters in Nepal; Dalit resistance in India; and the fallibility of memory during the Partition in Pakistan.

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