Feb 24, 2023
Faiza Moatsim - Planning Bureaucracy and its Encroachments: The Making of Islamabad as a Master-planned City
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
The Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia promotes research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded manner.
Feb 17, 2023
Aasim Khan and Zehra Hashmi — Prehistories of the Information Age and the Politics in South Asia
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Dec 9, 2022
“More of us might be killed—but we will win": Hazara Persecution and Resistance in Afghanistan
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Dec 9, 2022
Christopher Clary Book Adda — The Difficult Politics of Peace
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowksy Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Dec 2, 2022
Dec 1, 2022
Jocelyn Bell — Reimagining within-movement conflict: Ideology and the anti-sex trafficking movement
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Nov 18, 2022
Nov 11, 2022
Nov 7, 2022
Flooding in Pakistan: Climate Justice, Mitigation and Adaptation
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Register here for this virtual event
Nov 4, 2022
Vineeta Yadav — How Elite Risk Preferences Shape Democracy: Evidence from India and Pakistan
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Harvard University, Room S153, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachussets
Oct 28, 2022
Tanu Kumar — Housing as welfare: How subsidized homeownership generates social mobility through wealth, voice, and dignity in India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Harvard University, Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St
Oct 27, 2022
Muhammad Omar Afzaal — Picking Your Battles: A Story of Pakistan's Perceptions
4 p.m. – 5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 24, 2022
Rukmini S. — Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 21, 2022
Kamila Shamsie — From Greeks to Indo-Greeks to Greco-Britains’: 2,000 years of Hellenic culture in South Asia
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 14, 2022
Shekhar Gupta — The Media & India's Democracy Today
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 13, 2022
Steve Gorn & Eric Fraser with Nitin Mitta — Flute Jugalbandhi Concert
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent St
Oct 7, 2022
Sanjay Kak — Archives of the Present: Witness in Kashmir and Palestine
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 30, 2022
Nayanika Mathur — Writing the Anthropocene from the Indian Himalaya
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 28, 2022
TM Krishna — Art & Activism - Meaning and Purpose
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 27, 2022
TM Krishna — Music Workshop
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 23, 2022
Gilles Verniers — The Making of UP’s New Politicians: The Elite Roots of Inclusion
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 16, 2022
Film Screening: The Providence Premiere of "A Night of Knowing Nothing"
6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. True North Classroom, 280 Brook Street
Sep 16, 2022
P. Saravanamuttu — Sri Lanka in Crisis: Democratic Governance Imperiled?
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 9, 2022
Ali Sethi Concert
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Starr Plaza, 111 Thayer Street. In the event of rain: 280 Brook Street
Sep 9–10, 2022
Saxena Center Inauguration | Marginalization & Inclusion in South Asia: Economics, Politics, and Culture
Joukowsy Forum and Starr Plaza, 111 Thayer Street