2017 Winter Grant Recipients
SAI has awarded grants to 15 students who will travel to India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Pakistan for research and internships.
Category : Pakistan
SAI hosts artists Komal Shahid Khan and Meenakshi Sengupta
Komal Shahid Khan, from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Meenakshi Sengupta, from Kolkata, India, attended classes, met with students and faculty, and displayed their work on campus. They also collaborated on an interactive performance piece about the Partition of India.
Student voices: Teaching history through empathy
Asad Liaqat, SAI Graduate Associate, spent the summer working with The History Project in Lahore, Pakistan. He evaluated workshops aimed at improving critical thinking and increasing empathy in schoolchildren in Pakistan and India, especially towards historical narratives.
Lakhani joins LUMS Suleman Dawood School of Business advisory board
Congratulations to Karim R. Lakhani, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, for his invitation to serve on the advisory board of Suleman Dawood School of Business, the oldest of the four schools at Lahore University of Management Sciences...
Student Coordinators, 2016-2017
The students, all master’s candidates at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, hail from India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Winter Session Grant Deadline: October 15
SAI offers grants for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students to be used during the winter session, January 2017.
Meet our Fellow: Fahad Javed
Javed is an Assistant Professor in the computer science department at GIFT University, Gujranwala, Pakistan. His research is focused around smart grids, specifically on anything to do with demand side management.
In their own words: Why I support the arts
In a recent interview with SAI, Arts Council member Omar Saeed spoke about his intersecting interests in arts, education, and health.
Partition Project moves forward with in-region meetings
The project focuses on the humanitarian consequences experienced by those on both sides of the Punjab border.
Alum Q+A: Saving lives at birth
Sabeena Jalal, an alum of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and currently based in Karachi, has developed a blade to be used by midwives during childbirth to cut the umbilical cord. The blade does not get infected, so she hopes the tool can reduce the rate of infant mortality in developing countries.
Widener’s growing South Asia collection: “The sky is the limit”
Librarians at Harvard’s Widener Library have been working meticulously to process more than 22,000 volumes that have been acquired from Pakistan over the last 10 years.
Update from Visiting Artists, 2015-16
Alumni of SAI’s Visiting Artist Program say the experience at Harvard was incredibly enriching for their work.