"Mass Education & Political Mobilization: Evidence from Nepal"

Speaker:

Avidit Acharya, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.

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"Understanding Majoritarian Violence: Evidence from Hate Crimes and Crowd Violence in India"

Speaker:

Aidan Milliff, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Florida State University.

Commentator:

Ashutosh Varshney, Director, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia; Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, Brown University.

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"The Patriarchal Political Order - The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India"

Speaker:

Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.

Discussant:

Anirvan Chowdhury, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California Berkeley.

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"Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan"

Speaker:

Erum Haider, Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies, College of Wooster.

Contact:

Carlin Carr
carlincarr@fas.harvard.edu

The Joint Sem­i­nar on South Asian Pol­i­tics is co-sponsored by the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Wat­son Insti­tute at Brown Uni­ver­sity, the Weath­er­head Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Affairs and South Asia Institute at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity, and the MIT Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Studies.

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"Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Delhi's Education Reform (A Tale of Creative Resistance and Creative Disruption)"

Speaker:

Yamini Aiyar, Advisory Committee. President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research.

Contact:

Selmon Rafey
srafey@fas.harvard.edu

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"Bridging the Gulf: Experimental Evidence on Migration's Impact on Tolerance and Internationalism"

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Speaker:

Nikhar Gaikwad, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.

Discussant:

Pia Raffler, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
grace_cardogno@brown.edu

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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"Smallpox Eradication: A Racially Inclusive History"

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Speaker:

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Professor in the History of Medicine; Director, Centre for Global Health Histories; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
grace_cardogno@brown.edu

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the MIT Center for International Studies.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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"Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi"

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Speaker:

Dr. Neelanjan Sircar, Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research.

Commentator:

Jason Jackson, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
grace_cardogno@brown.edu

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the MIT Center for International Studies.

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"How do Gender Quotas Impact Accountability?"

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Speaker:

Zuheir Desai, Assistant Professor, School of Global and Public Affairs, IE University.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
grace_cardogno@brown.edu

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the MIT Center for International Studies.

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"Vaccinating India Against Covid: Lessons from History"

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Speaker:

Harish Naraindas, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
grace_cardogno@brown.edu

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the MIT Center for International Studies.

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"The Past and Future of India-China Relations"

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Speakers:

Vijay Gokhale, nonresident senior fellow, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.

Shivshankar Menon, Distinguished Fellow, Center for Social and Economic Progress; Visiting Professor, Ashoka University.

Kanti Prasad Bajpai, Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation; Professor of Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
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A Joint Sem­i­nar on South Asian Pol­i­tics co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown, the Weatherhead Center and LMSAI at Harvard and the MIT Center for International Studies.

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"India's Upcoming Elections: What's at Stake?"

Speakers:

Ashu Varshney, Associate. Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University.

Ronak Desai, Law and Security Fellow, New America; Vice Chair of the India Practice, Steptoe.

Moderator:

Hasit Shah, Journalist, Former Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation.

Contact:

Selmon Rafey
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"The Mobilizing State: HIV/AIDS and Sexual Identity in India"

Speaker:

Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University.

Contact:

Selmon Rafey
srafey@fas.harvard.edu

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"Crisis and Credibility: The Politics of Ideas in India and Developing Democracies"

Speaker:

Bilal Baloch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Advanced Study of India; Lecturer and Regional Director, South Asia and Middle East & North Africa program, Lauder Institute, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Co-sponsored by Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Selmon Rafey
srafey@fas.harvard.edu

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"De Facto Suffrage: A Field Experiment to Improve Women’s Turnout in Pakistan’s General Elections"

Speaker:

Sarah Khan, Postgraduate Associate, MacMillan Center, Yale University.

Co-sponsored by Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Selmon Rafey
srafey@fas.harvard.edu

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