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The Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department Lecture Series


All talks are held at One Bow Street, unless otherwise noted.


Spring 2008

"On the Origin and Development of the Tibetan Buddhist Canons "
Professor Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp
Professor, Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Harvard University
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Friday, February 22, 2008
5:00 pm, One Bow Street, Room 317

 
"The Art of Tabo and its Importance for the History of Tibet"
Professor Deborah Klimburg-Salter
Institute of Art History, University of Vienna
Tuesday, March 4
5:00 pm, One Bow Street, Room 317
 

"Sindhi Language and Literature"
Dr. Niranjan Dudani
Poet and Writer, Swampscott, MA
Saturday,March 8
3:00 pm, Hall A, Science Center

 

Charting Tibetan Biography
Professor Kurtis Schaeffer
University of Virginia
Friday, May 2
1:00 pm, One Bow Street, Room 330

 

"Vedic Language and Literature"
Dr. Susan Rosenfield
Visiting Scholar, Brown University, RI

Saturday, May 3
3:00 pm, Hall A, Science Center

"About the Sources of the Mahavyutpatti"
Dr. Ulrich Pagel
School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Monday, April 21
5:30 pm, One Bow Street, Room 317

12th Annual India Poetry Reading
Theme: "My Language"
Original poems and recitations from the classics are invited.

Saturday, May 10
3:00 pm, Hall A, Science Center

 

 

 

Fall 2007
"Bollywood's India: Hindi cinema as a guide to modern India"
PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE

Dr. Rachel Dwyer
Dept. of the Languages & Cultures of South Asia
Centre of South Asian Studies, University of London
Tuesday, November 6
4-6:00 pm, Sever Hall, Room 110
"Bengali Language and The Literature"
Mrs. Maya De
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Saturday, December 8
3:00 pm, Hall A, Science Center
"Punjabi Language and The Literature"
Mr. Jaspal Singh
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Saturday, January 12th
3:00 pm, Hall A, Science Center

All talks are held at One Bow Street, unless otherwise noted.
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Archive of past Guest Lectures

 



 Mahabharata Reading Group

The Mahabharata Reading Group has been meeting for eight years on a weekly basis.
We are reading the Abhimanyu Vadha Parvan.
It is a non-credit, non-pressure group which covers up to fifty slokas a week.
All are welcome to join, participate, or just to audit.

Meeting Time: Thursdays, 3:00-5:00, Widener A
For more information, please contact kmcgrath@fas.harvard.edu

 
 

 
Sanskrit Language Table

Form more information, please contact bmisra@fas.harvard.edu


 

 
Tibetan Language Table

Meeting Time: Mondays, 12:00-1:00, Dudley House cafeteria.
For more information, please contact Cameron Warner (
warner@fas.harvard.edu )


 

 
The Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum Lecture Series

Please click here for full details.

 



 5th Harvard Round Table on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia

(including earlier meetings)
Please click here for detailed conference information.

 


 


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