Family Law Reform in Pakistan: Recent Opinions Favoring Women-Initiated Divorce
A Lunchtime Talk with Mubasher Hussain, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow, Fulbright Scholar
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Qissebaazi: A Multilingual Storytelling Orbit Directed by Danish Husain
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Thu, Sep 21, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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Danish Husain is a poet, actor, filmmaker and theatre director – he is one of the people who have helped revive the lost art form of Urdu storytelling, Dastangoi, and is a columnist with India Today’s opinion website Daily O.
More InfoCity in Garden: Trees as Element of Urban Design
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Mon, Sep 18, 2017 from 01:00pm — 01:45pm, ET
Department of Landscape Architecture Brown Bag Lecture Series presents: “City in Garden: Trees as Element of Urban Design,” a lecture by Rajnish Wattas, Former Principal, Chandigarh College of Architecture
More InfoLooking Back, Informing the Future: The 1947 Partition of British India
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Fri, Sep 15, 2017 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) and Kings India Institute invite you to a program on The 1947 Partition of British India, in London.
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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
A South Asia Institute Urbanization Seminar Series: “Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development” Sanjeev Vidyarthi Author; Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, The University of Illinois at Chicago Moderated by Rahul Mehrotra Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of […]
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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Join us for a screening of Deepa Mehta’s acclaimed film Water (2005; 115 min.), part of the Elements trilogy. Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the […]
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Wed, Sep 6, 2017
A Harvard Graduate School of Design Exhibition
August 21 – October 6, 2017, with a special opening lecture on September 6 by Professor Rahul Mehrotra at 6pm, followed by a reception
Curated by: Professor Rahul Mehrotra
Location: Gund Hall Gallery
Welcome back!
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Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 05:00pm, ET
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Celebrate the start of the school year with SAI! The Welcome Back Mixer is a chance for students to enjoy delicious South Asian food while meeting SAI’s Visiting Fellows and faculty, learning about student funding opportunities, and meeting with representatives from Harvard South Asia student groups.
More InfoExhibition: Women in South Asian Art
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Sat, Aug 26, 2017 - Sun, Jan 7, 2018, ET
Drawn from the Harvard Art Museums’ renowned South Asian art collection, this University Teaching Gallery installation complements an undergraduate course exploring images of women in South Asian art.
More InfoWorkshop on the Liberal Arts in Higher Education
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Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:00am, ET — Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 06:00pm, ET
COST $125
This is a forum for faculty, administrators, and leadership from universities across South Asia, the Middle East, and neighboring regions (Central Asia and East Asia) to explore ways in which universities may develop a liberal arts education program for undergraduate students, while fostering such objectives as sustainable development; social inclusion and peace; and cooperation across national boundaries among individuals, institutions, and governments. These goals are essential to addressing shared global challenges and to realizing opportunities to advance human well-being. Universities, as institutions that prepare future leadership of societies, have a unique role to play in the achievement of these goals, educating students as global citizens who can understand, value, and contribute to the common good.
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