Meena Hewett has been invited to speak at the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations’ annual conference, which will take place from February 14-17, 2014 at Harvard University. This year’s theme is ‘The Many Faces of Asia: Shaping Identities in a Dynamic World.’
SAI collaborated with the World Bank to organize a four-day Executive Development Program titled “Non-State Players in Human Development – Achieving India’s Goals” in Mumbai from February 3rd to February 6th, 2014 with professors Kash Rangan of HBS, Tarun Khanna of SAI and HBS, and Ashish Nanda of HLS.
Khanna says that Indian state-run companies are much better placed to implement meaningful programmes of corporate social responsibility (CSR) than their private sector counterparts, owing to the large scale on which they operate and their accessibility to the government.
Spray was awarded multiple research grants from SAI to pursue her work in Nepal.
The application deadline is February 13, 2014 for graduate students and February 14, 2014 for undergraduate students.
The theme of this year’s conference is India, Turning the Page: Prospects and Paradoxes.
Shankar Ramaswami is halfway through his year as SAI’s South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. In addition to his involvement with SAI seminars and working on a book about his fieldwork in India, he is teaching a class this spring semester titled ‘South Asian Studies 196: Work and Religion in Modern South Asia.’ SAI caught up with Ramaswami to talk about his upcoming class, as well his experience as an SAI Fellow.
SAI is sad to share the news that Professor Stanley J. Tambiah, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, passed away on January 19 after a long illness.
In this rapidly changing world, a world-class transformational education experience is what today’s youth aspires to obtain. Excellence in teaching and research standards and holistic learning for societal improvement is the endeavour of all leading universities. Three eminent Harvard University faculty members presented their views on ‘Building World-Class Education: What Lessons Does Harvard Offer?’