Category : Faculty
Nov 19, 2015 | Community, Faculty, Fellows, News
By Soujanya Ganig, Ed. M Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education; SAI Student Coordinator On November 16, SAI and Harvard Law School hosted a book talk on Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia, a book edited by Mark Tushnet and Madhav...
Nov 18, 2015 | Community, Faculty, In Region, India, News
A SAI webinar on Nov. 17 showed how this type of health intervention has significant potential for public health at future events, from natural disasters to refugee resettlements.
Nov 17, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, India, News
The capacity building curriculum for organizations will will equip them with practical skills, tools, and knowledge that they require to maximize and deepen the impact of their work and the scale of their activities.
Nov 10, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, News, South Asia in the News
At the Asia Society in New York on November 6, faculty leaders discussed how the Kumbh Mela is an opportunity to learn about megacities, possibly illuminating solutions to natural disasters that require temporary housing.
Nov 8, 2015 | Blog, Community, Faculty, News
Sunil Amrith led a virtual discussion on Nov. 5 with teachers about Sea of Poppies, a historical novel that sheds light on 19th century India.
Nov 3, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, News, South Asia in the News
“The sheer scale and the aspect of its temporariness is just mind-boggling,” says Rahul Mehrotra.
Oct 28, 2015 | Faculty, News, Students
On October 26, SAI hosted Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author, translator and storyteller for a Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar. The masterful storyteller enthralled the audience with his fascinating stories and gave a flavour of all the dimensions of his work.
Oct 22, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, Fellows, News, Students
The Harvard-Brown Pakistani Film Festival 2015, held from October 16 – 18, brought multiple layers of contemporary Pakistani visual culture to over 500 attendees at Harvard. The event drew packed houses for each screening, mostly comprising members of the...
Oct 22, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, Fellows, India, News, Students
The 18-month research project will focus on three key areas including rural livelihood creation; educational, social and economic empowerment of women; and science and technology-based interventions for poverty alleviation.
Oct 19, 2015 | Community, Faculty, News, Students
This conference, which will take place on October 30th at Harvard Business School, aims to survey recent scholarship on the history of business in India and South Asia. It will bring together faculty and students from a range of disciplines, including economic and...
Oct 16, 2015 | Alumni, Blog, Community, Faculty, Fellows, Nepal, News, Students
The exhibit, on display now at Harvard, is designed to raise funds for SAI’s Nepal Research and Reconstruction Fund.
Oct 14, 2015 | Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, India, Nepal, News, Pakistan, Students
Big data has huge potential – it can help track diseases, make government more efficient, or allow businesses to better understand their customers. In a SAI webinar titled ‘Who owns Big Data?” on October 13, Malavika Jayaram, Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center...
