Category : Community
Apr 2, 2015 | Community, News, Pakistan, Students
The second annual Harvard Pakistan Forum took place on March 28th and 29th, 2015 at Harvard. With approximately 250 people in attendance, it was an eclectic mix of people from different walks of life, all connected by their interest in some facet of a modern-day...
Mar 27, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, News, Students
The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral MEGACITY book and exhibition consolidate research findings and serve as an example of interdisciplinary research conducted at Harvard.
Mar 26, 2015 | Alumni, Bangladesh, Blog, Community, News
TraumaLink was founded in 2013 by Dr. Jon Moussally, an attending emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and North Shore Medical Center, along with Eric Dunipace and Ryan Fu, arvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students. The organizations’s goal is...
Mar 19, 2015 | Community, Faculty, News, Students
The 2015 Annual Symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners for a series of workshops on SAI’s ongoing research projects and see the launch of an exhibit and book on Mapping the Ephemeral City: Kumbh Mela 2013.
Mar 13, 2015 | Community, News
The series at the GSD will feature Parinda, Black Friday, Lunchbox, and Mumbai Mari Jaan.
Mar 12, 2015 | Community, Faculty, News, Pakistan, South Asia in the News
In an interview with SAI, Jahangir discusses women’s empowerment, freedom of expression, and Pakistan’s complicated political relationships with India and the US. Jahangir delivered the Asia Center’s Tsai Lecture on Mar. 4
Mar 11, 2015 | Community, Faculty, News, Pakistan, Students
By Mehjabeen Zameer, M.Ed Candidate in International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education; SAI Student Coordinator On Wednesday, March 4, renowned Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir, spoke about the state of Pakistan moving from one crisis...
Mar 9, 2015 | Community, Faculty, News, Students
A lecture at Harvard by Milan Vaishnav, associate in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as part of the South Asian Politics seminar series
Mar 6, 2015 | Alumni, Bangladesh, Community, Faculty, In Region, India, News, Pakistan, South Asia in the News
The Murty Classical Library of India hopes to introduce a vast corpus of literature, thought, and science to fresh audiences across the world. “It’s completely transformative,” said Parimal Patil, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies and SAI Steering Committee member.
Mar 5, 2015 | Alumni, Blog, Community, In Region, News, South Asia in the News
“We are leveraging the power of the American consumer economy to increase stability in Afghanistan,” says Keith Alaniz, a US Army veteran, who co-founded Rumi Spice with several HBS alums.
Feb 18, 2015 | Alumni, Community, In Region, Nepal, News
On Feb. 10, the Harvard Club of Nepal (HCN) hosted an event in Kathmandu with two newspaper editors who discussed the current political situation in the country and the role that media could play in resolving the chaos of constitution-making. The HCN, a group of Harvard alumni, has recently been reactivated.
Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Community, Faculty, In Region, India, Students
Emerging demographic, economic and dietary factors suggest that a large burden of preventable illness is poised to develop in India requiring training for a new cadre of Indian nutrition scientists. There is a great need for nutrition researchers in the country, but...
