Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics

Brokering Rebellion: Identity, Organization and Social Expansion of Insurgency Speaker Apekshya Prasai, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University. Contact Selmon Rafey srafey@fas.harvard.edu

"The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh" Speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak, Jerome Kasoff '54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University. Contact: Selmon Rafey srafey@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia...

"Left Behind or Left Ahead? Female Political Engagement in Migrant-Sending Communities in India" Speaker: Rithika Kumar, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University. Commentator: Gemma Dipoppa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown...

"The Limits of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rural Local Bodies" Speaker: Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California. Contact: Selmon Rafey srafey@fas.harvard.edu...

"The Transition in Bangladesh and its Implications" Speakers: Nusrat Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College. Daniel Markey, Senior Advisor on South Asia, United States Institute of Peace. Ali Riaz, Distinguished Professor...

"Mass Education & Political Mobilization: Evidence from Nepal" Speaker: Avidit Acharya, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Contact: Selmon Rafey srafey@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown...

"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...

"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...

"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 Sem­i...

"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...