SAI teams travels to Pakistan for Mental Health Conference
The conference, held Dec. 16-18 in Karachi, aimed to identify existing challenges, best practices, and innovations around mental health relief efforts.
The conference, held Dec. 16-18 in Karachi, aimed to identify existing challenges, best practices, and innovations around mental health relief efforts.
Today, the South Asia Institute’s thoughts are with Pakistan as the country marks the one year anniversary of the Peshawar school attack.
SAI has awarded 20 grants to support student projects in India, Nepal, and Pakistan over the Winter Session 2016.
SAI welcomes applications from emerging artists in South Asia to come to Harvard University to participate in discourse with students and faculty on critical issues. The deadline for Spring 2016 is January 8, 2016.
Representing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, the council members will provide support and advisement for the Arts at SAI program.
In a SAI webinar on Dec. 3, Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School, explained why handcrafted items are losing their relevance in contemporary markets.
This week, SAI welcomed Basir Mahmood, an artist based in Lahore, Pakistan, to Harvard as the second Visiting Artist, as part of SAI’s Arts Program.
The conference aims to identify existing challenges, best practices, and innovations around mental health relief efforts in the wake of natural and manmade disasters.
Mahmood uses video, film, and photographs to build various forms of narratives. He will be at Harvard next week as SAI’s second Visiting Artist.
Based on her research in the city of Lahore, Laila Bushra, SAI’s Babar Ali Fellow, discussed the connection between the influence of Islamist groups in Pakistan and civin Islamist infrastructure in a seminar on November 5.