BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Harvard-Brown-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics (In Person) PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1668033_0 SUMMARY:Harvard-Brown-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics (In Person) DESCRIPTION:

"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.

Speaker Bio:

Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for 2019-20. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Research Center in Lahore, Pakistan. Haider studies the privatization of public goods. Her doctoral research examined the ability of citizens to use political representatives to lobby for better provision. Her research primarily takes place in Karachi, Pakistan.

LOCATION:CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20230310T190000Z DTEND:20230310T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR