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March 24, 2017
Please visit our website for more information.
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Call for Applications: Raghunathan Family Fellowship
The year long fellowship supports recent PhDs in the humanities and social sciences related to South Asia. Deadline to apply:
Mar. 31, 2017.
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Student voices
Big city labor markets in small-town India
"Students in small-town Haryana generally lacked awareness about careers outside of their local labor market. I hypothesized that this lack of awareness may lead students to under invest in their skills," writes
Kunal Mangal, Harvard Kennedy School student, who spent winter session conducting research in India.
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"Marvi: The Mystic Muse" Film Screening and Discussion
Saturday, March 25, 4:00pm - 7:00pm, Harvard Allston Education Portal
Cosponsored Event
The screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Tanya Panjwani and Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University.
Cosponsored by Celebrity Series of Boston, Harvard Office for the Arts' Learning From Performers program, and World Music/CRASHarts.
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Conversation on the Intersection of culture, journalism, and religion
Monday, Mar. 27, 6:00pm - 7:30pm, CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
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
Cosponsored with the Center Stage program of New England Foundation For The Arts
Reception to follow.
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Artist Talk: Rabindra Shrestha
Tuesday, Mar. 28, 1:00pm - 2:30pm, CGIS S001, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Arts Seminar
Rabindra Shrestha,
Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program
Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Lunch will be served.
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Partition of British India: 70 Years Later
Wednesday, Mar. 29, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Partition Seminar
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, Harvard South Asia Institute
Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Artist Talk: Landscape of Abstraction
Thursday, Mar. 30, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Memorial Hall S030
Arts Seminar
Madhu Das, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program
Chair: Susan Bean, Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies; Board Member, Textile Society of America; Associate, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Senior Curator for South Asian and Korean Art. Peabody Essex Museum
Lunch will be served.
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Old Stories in New Moments: Digambara Jain Ramayana Literature in Early Modernity
Thursday, Mar. 30, 4:00pm - 5:30pm, CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Graduate Student Associate Seminar
Gregory Clines,
Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI
Discussant:
Catherine Hartmann
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Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion
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SAI is looking for a Harvard student intern to assist 5 hours/week with the 1947 Partition oral stories project. Please email meena_hewett@harvard.edu for more information.
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