Arts Seminar Madhu Das, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Susan Bean, Independent Scholar and Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies Madhu Das is a multi-disciplinary Visual Artist based in Mumbai, India; his artistic practice is primarily concerned with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that […]
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Thu, Mar 30, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Gregory Clines, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Catherine Hartmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion The fifteenth-century author Brahma Jinadāsa, a member of the Digambara Balatkāra Gaṇa, is credited with composing over eighty works in both Sanskrit and Old Gujarati. One of […]
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Arts Seminar Rabindra Shrestha, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Rabindra Shrestha is a Nepalese visual artist. Installation, detail pen and ink drawing, painting, traditional painting (Paubha), illustration, cartoon, and ceramic art are the different mediums of his visuals expressions. Most of his art […]
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Mon, Mar 27, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Madeeha Syed, Pakistani Journalist Marco Werman, The World Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Join Pakistani journalist Madeeha Syed, Marco Werman from Public Radio International’s The World, and Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, for […]
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Sat, Mar 25, 2017 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Join the Harvard Ed Portal for a free screening of the award-winning film “Marvi: The Mystic Muse,” exploring singer Sanam Marvi’s search for her own roots across Pakistan and her journey with Sufism. The event will follow a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Tanya Panjwani and Professor Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion […]
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Sat, Mar 25, 2017 from 01:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event This is the first meeting of a proposed annual conference of a research network that will meet every year at a different university, our other partner institutions being Chicago, Columbia and Cornell. Graduate Students from Harvard and beyond will convene to discuss a range of historical topics about border-making and border-crossing in various […]
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event A charming story of a group of senior citizens who set up a Peking Opera club in hopes of finding revitalization through singing and dancing. Fast paced and delightful. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
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Partition Seminar Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliated Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Chen will be speaking from a personal perspective, as a long-term resident of India and Pakistan who […]
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Wed, Mar 22, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:30pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside. Cosponsored with the Asia Center
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Tue, Mar 21, 2017 from 04:15pm — 05:15pm, ET
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the fall semester. Cosponsored Event Cosponsored with Asia Center
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