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The 2022 Annual Symposium aims to commemorate the history and development of modern South Asia over the past 75 years. All events will be streamed live on May 18 and 19 and are open to all. Please register using the link above.
Day 1: Wednesday, May 18th
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, and Faculty Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University
Hitesh Hathi, Executive Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University
Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Harvard University (Pre-recorded video remarks)
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Climate Change in South Asia
Anthony Acciavatti, Daniel Rose (1951) Visiting Assistant Professor in Urban Studies, Yale University
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University
James H. Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University, Moderator
10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Partition in the Arts
Iftikhar Dadi, John H. Burris Professor in History of Art at Cornell University
Nadhra Khan, Visiting Faculty, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Jennifer Leaning, Senior Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center and Professor of the Practice at Harvard School of Public Health, Moderator
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Amartya Sen: “Where Is India Going?”
Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics, among many other awards.
With an introduction by Hitesh Hathi, Executive Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Day 2: Thursday, May 19th
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Reflections on 75 Years of Independence by Syed Babar Ali
Syed Babar Ali is a former Minister of Finance of Pakistan, businessman, philanthropist and founder of Pakistan’s leading institution of higher learning, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
With an introduction by Mashail Malik, Postdoctoral Fellow and Incoming Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Health Care in South Asia
Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics, Yale University
Satchit Balsari, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sabina F. Rashid, Professor and Dean BRAC University and the director of the Centre of Excellence for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Blavatnik Institute’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University, Moderator
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Next Generation of Scholars
Nosher Ali Khan, Harvard College ’23
Vaishnavi Patil, Ph.D Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Vidya Subramanian, Raghunathan Family Fellow, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Hitesh Hathi, Executive Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Moderator
