Harvard Gazette: Animal Law & Policy Program to focus on Asia
SAI has partnered with the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, led by Steering Committee member Kristen Stilt, to examine animal agriculture from the Middle East to Asia.
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Call For Proposals: Workshop on Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia, May 11-12, 2017
The workshop will bring together experts to exchange ideas as an initial step toward the goal of a broader collaborative research project.
Mukti Khaire appointed first Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell University
Congratulations to Mukti Khaire on being appointed the first Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell University. Khaire is one of the faculty directors for the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. Khaire served as the Professor of Practice...
Shafiqul Islam wins Water Prize
Islam is the director of the Boston Water Group, a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who but work around the world to address problems that involve water.
Disease and politics: Lessons from Calcutta and Canton
At a recent meeting of the Brown/Harvard/MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics on Oct. 14,
Prerna Singh, Brown University, compared the success of the smallpox vaccine in 19th century Calcutta and Canton to show that new medical technologies must be embedded in existing cultural norms to be effective.
Alum Q+A: Lessons from Dadabhai Naoroji
Dinyar Patel, a Harvard alum who is now an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina, recently co-edited a volume of selected correspondences from the Dadabhai Naoroji Papers. “People like Naoroji were talking about a lot of similar issues to what politicians are talking about now in India,” Patel said in an interview with SAI.
Towards better health information exchange
SAI hosted a seminar with the Radcliffe Institute in September that sought to identify the technical and policy barriers to better health information exchange, with a focus on India.
Best Practices to Bolster Sales in the Indian Crafts Sector
This is part of a series about the SAI/Tata Trusts workshop on Creating Livelihoods for the Indian Craft Sector By Gayatri Divecha, Project Consultant and Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director Aditi Aman Shah, Rare Earth Design and Meeta Sandeep, Either/Or, shared their...
Save the Date: SAI Annual Symposium, May 3 & 4, 2017
Join the South Asia Institute for its Annual Symposium, which will bring together scholars and practitioners for discussions about South Asia and the world, focusing broadly on the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Nepal earthquake response offers lessons for future disasters
After Nepal’s devastating earthquake in April, the international community rushed to help. Well-meaning though it was, the huge influx of helpers actually complicated relief efforts. That issue and other lessons were the focus of a symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on September 16.
SAI welcomes new Steering Committee member
SAI is pleased to welcome JP Onnela, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, to our Steering Committee this year. Onnela’s work focuses on social and biological networks and their connection to human health.
September 8: Welcome Back Mixer
Meet SAI’s fellows and faculty, learn about funding opportunities, and get to know Harvard’s South Asia student groups.