After Nepal quake, Harvard responds
Read a Harvard Gazette article about how Harvard is responding to the earthquake in Nepal.
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South Asia Week 2015
The Future of Diplomacy Project, in partnership with SAI, will be hosting its annual South Asia Week, beginning Friday, April, 24, featuring an impressive array of regional practitioners and experts on India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
David Bloom named Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Congratulations to David Bloom, SAI Steering Committee member, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who was named one of 32 inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
A powerful convergence
Read an article from the Harvard Gazette about SAI’s launch of “Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity.”
South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact
SAI’s Annual Symposium on April 16 and 17, 2015 brought together scholars and practitioners for a series of workshops on SAI’s ongoing research projects.
Jayaprakash Narayan reconsidered
By Ghazal Gulati, Ed. M Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education; SAI Student Coordinator (@GhazalGulati) On April 9, 2015, SAI hosted a student-organized seminar at Harvard on Jayaprakash Narayan, a complex and elusive political thinker from India. J.P., as he...
2015 Student Summer Grants
SAI has awarded 35 grants for 2015 summer and research, internship, and language study in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Video: Harvard celebrates Holi
On Sunday, April 12, 2015, Harvard students gathered to celebrate the festival of colors. Video from the Crimson:
Faculty Q+A: Temporary religious landscapes in Latin America and South Asia
The Research Project on the Ephemeral City, lead by professor Rahul Mehrotra, GSD, has been engaged in documenting and systematically compiling different forms of temporary urbanism in South Asia, Latin America and worldwide.
Virtual tour: Temporary Landscapes of Religion in South Asia and Latin America
Take a virtual tour through the exhibit, which examines ephemeral configurations deployed to celebrate religious beliefs from the two regions. SAI is hosting a seminar on Wednesday, Apr. 22 about the exhibit.
Language for Metaphysics, Language for Politics: Some Lessons from Allama Prabhu’s vacanas
By Ghazal Gulati, Ed.M Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education “Writing that cannot be erased, ought not to be written” – Allama Prabhu As part of its South Asia Without Borders Series, SAI hosted a seminar on Friday, April 3 with Dr. Prithvi Datta Chandra...
Transnational urbanism and postcolonial cities
In a SAI Urbanization seminar on March 31, Maristella Casciato, Canadian Centre for Architecture, discussed the challenges of postcolonialism for cities in South Asia.