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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics > 2010-2011 Seminar Schedule

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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Date: September 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
MIT Center for International Studies (Building E40), 1 Amherst St., The Lucian Pye Room (E40-496)
This is open to the public.

"Arming without Aiming: A Newly Affluent India Modernizes its Military"

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Center for International Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Speakers
Cohen, Stephen
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative, Brookings Institution.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Date: October 15, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K354
This is open to the public.

"Democracy and the Religious Sphere: Political Representation in India"

Speakers
Chhibber, Pradeep
Indo-American Endowed Chair; Bedford Chair; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Date: November 12, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K401
This is open to the public.

"Regional Diversities in India's Development"

Speakers
Kohli, Atul
David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Date: February 4, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pye Conference Room, E40-496
This is open to the public.

"Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation in Indo-Pakistani Relations"

Speakers
Ganguly, Sumit
Director of Research, Center on American and Global Security, Indiana University.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Date: February 18, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Watson Institute, Brown University, Joukowsky Forum, Room 155
This is open to the public.

“Blocked by Caste: Field Studies and Observational Research on Discrimination in Contemporary India”

This seminar series is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the MIT Center for International Studies

Seminar website

Speakers
Newman, Katherine S.
James B. Knapp Dean of the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts
Attewell, Paul
Professor of sociology and of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
Date: March 4, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K401
This is open to the public.

"Corruption Amongst India's Politicians: Evidence from Unusual Data"

Speakers
Bhavnani, Rikhil
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics*
Date: April 15, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-496, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*
This is open to the public.

"Organizing Insurgency: Networks, Resources, and Rebellion in South Asia"

*Please note the change in location.

Speakers
Staniland, Paul
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago.; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago.