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South Asia Initiative May 2012 Events
SOUTH ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS SEMINAR SERIES
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2012
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Associate Professor, History Department, Boston College
Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE STUDENT SEMINAR
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 1-3:00 pm
Big Ideas: Conversations with the South Asia Initiative's Graduate Student Associates
RELIGION, MEANING AND BELIEF IN MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETIES
“Social Justice in Islamicate South Asia: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Struggle”
Sadaf Jaffer, Doctoral Candidate in the Indo-Muslim Culture program at the
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“Producing Islam - Belief, Practice, & Politics at an Islamic Seminary (Madrasa) in Pakistan”,
Bilal A.
Malik , Ed.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi: A Seventeenth Century Sufi, and Why Every South Asianist Should
Care About Him”
Shankar Nair, PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion
“Rethinking the Role of Religion in Premodern South Asia”
Harpreet
Singh, PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion
LAND, LAW, URBANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA
“Urbanization without cities: Land conflicts along inter-urban highways in India”
Sai Balakrishnan, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design
“A Socio-Legal History of the Right to Property in India”
Namita Wahi, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
Belfer Case Study Room, S020, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Friday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m.
An Elusion Called Justice - Struggling with an Enigma
A Talk on the Struggles of the Tribal Peoples of Andhra Pradesh and the Story of Samata
Ravi Rebbapragada, Executive Director, Samata
CGIS K 262, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Presented by the Harvard India Student Group
Sponsored by the South Asia Initiative
CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Monday, May 7 at 1:30 - 5:45 pm
State Capacity and Local Governance: China and India Compared
A roundtable organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and co-sponsored with the Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative
Lower Level Seminar Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Harvard University
This roundtable brings together a group of distinguished scholars of China and India (Prasenjit Duara, Mark Frazier, Huang Yasheng, Devesh Kapur, Tarun Khanna, Prerna Singh, Kellee Tsai, and Lily Tsai) to consider some of the major political problems and perils facing the Asian giants today. How do the world’s two biggest countries compare in terms of their ability to manage and mollify their often unruly citizens? How well does each of them cope on the ground with such enormous challenges as poverty and inequality, popular protest, ethnic conflict, and environmental degradation? How effectively do central and local governments coordinate, complement, or contradict one another in meeting these challenges? Can China and India’s relative successes and shortcomings shed light on prospects for democratic versus non-democratic governance in the twenty-first century?
South Asia Initiative June 2012 Events
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SUMMER FILM SERIES
Thursday, June 28 at 5:00 PM
Garm Hava (Scorching Winds)
Directed by M. S. Sathyu, India
S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The film deals with the plight of a North Indian Muslim family, in the years post partition of India in 1947, as the film’s protagonist, deals with the dilemma of whether to move to Pakistan or stay back.
South Asia Initiative July 2012 Events
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SUMMER FILM SERIES
Thursday, July 12 at 5:00 PM
Matir moina (The Clay Bird)
Directed by Tareque Masud,
Bangladesh
S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The film is set against the backdrop of unrest in East Pakistan in the late 1960s leading up to the Bangladesh War of Liberation.
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SUMMER FILM SERIES
Thursday, July 19 at 5:00 PM
Khamosh Pani (Silent Water)
Directed by Sabiha Sumar,
Pakistan - France - Germany
S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back...
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SUMMER FILM SERIES
Thursday, July 26 at 5:00 PM
Ramchand Pakistan
Directed by Mehreen Jabbar,
Pakistan
S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
This Pakistani Urdu film that tells a true story about a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through.
South Asia Initiative August 2012 Events
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SUMMER FILM SERIES
Thursday, August 2 at 5:00 PM
The Kite Runner
Directed by Marc Forster,
United States
S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Amir returns to Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SUMMER FILM SERIES
Thursday, August 9 at 5:00 PM
Bol
Directed by Shoaib Mansoor,
Pakistan
S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.
