Category : News
Nov 29, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, India, News
November 30, 2012 – Speakers include David Bangsberg, Director of International Programs at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the International Program for the Harvard University...
Nov 29, 2012 | Bangladesh, News
Participants of a three-day national workshop on leadership developed and offered by Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC), the country’s first leadership institute, and supported by the Canadian High Commission in Bangladesh, were awarded certificates at a...
Nov 28, 2012 | News
SAI seeks a Communications and Outreach Intern, who will help to maintain the South Asia Initiative website and to develop and distribute outreach and marketing materials, including social media, at the South Asia Initiative. Students interested in international...
Nov 21, 2012 | Bangladesh, News
SAI is pleased to announce that the Anwarul Quadir Foundation will support Fellowships for two Harvard students to travel each year to Bangladesh to intern at established business in Dhaka, to promote understanding in the Harvard community of the social and...
Nov 21, 2012 | News
The South Asian Studies Department is hosting several upcoming lectures: Caste and Conflict in Contemporary Central India: Notes on the Political Theology of the Neighbor, Bhrigupati Singh, Brown University, Monday, Nov. 26th, 4-6:00pm, CGIS South, Belfer Case...
Nov 20, 2012 | News
Professor Anirban Adhya, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Lawrence Tech College of Architecture and Design’s talk used the temporal spectacle of the Durga Puja in Kolkata, India, as an articulation of the public sphere – as spaces where...
Nov 20, 2012 | News
SAI and the Office of International Education Announce Photo Contest Winners All undergraduate students who had an international experience in academic year 2011-12 and/or in summer 2012 were encouraged to participate in the Office of International Education...
Nov 15, 2012 | News, Students
All undergraduate students who had an international experience in academic year 2011-12 and/or in summer 2012 were encouraged to participate in the Office of International Education 9th Annual International Photo Contest. The South Asia Institute judged and...
Nov 15, 2012 | News, Students
Read below to learn about the research projects SAI will be funding as winter session grants this year. Tyler Arnot – The Estate Tamils of Sri Lanka M.Ed. Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education In a broad sense, the post-disaster conditions in...
Nov 11, 2012 | News
* Videos Uploaded* – Special Humanities Event in New York City, October 11, 2012: Home to nearly a sixth of humanity, the birthplace of many of the world’s great religions and philosophies, and now a hotbed for innovation and technological change, South Asia is...
Nov 1, 2012 | News
Professor Henry Vaux from the University of California, Berkeley and Chairman of the Committee on behalf of The National Academy of Science presented the Committee’s study on ‘Himalayan Glaciers Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.’ The...
Oct 28, 2012 | Community, News, Students
Ten Harvard students from across the University, along with SAI Associate Director, Meena Hewett, and SAI Program Coordinator, Nora Maginn, spent Sunday, October 28 at the Boston Children’s Museum celebrating Diwali with the community. Children were invited to...
