Events

During this interdisciplinary discussion, the four panelists will discuss the ways that cultural practices and social structures intersect with biomedicine and genetics. Specifically, they will be examining the ways that endogamy and caste structures in South Asian contexts have produced implications for health practices and medical predispositions. Ultimately, the discussion will touch upon the ways […]

Satchit Balsari, FXB Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty, Emergency Medicine, HMS/BIDM Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, SAI Moderator: Yee Htun, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School  SAI Director Tarun Khanna and FXB Fellow Satchit Balsari will run a discussion that focuses on the effects of forced migration, the 1947 Partition […]

Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs Muhammad Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University   Long the scourge of developing countries, fake pills are now increasingly common in the United States. The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use has led to […]

CO-SPONSORED EVENT Tariq Modood is the Founding Director, Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol University   In 1997, the Runnymede Trust in London recognized Tariq Modood’s alternative definition of Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism in the context of a multicultural society. Since then, this definition has emerged as the dominant interpretation of Islamophobia in […]

FILM SCREENING Soz-A Ballad of Maladies Tushar Madhav, Director: A Ballad of Maladies Sarvnik Kaur, Writer: A Ballad of Maladies Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University   This film is a portrait of poets, musicians, and artists who have turned […]

This talk will discuss 16th and early-17th century album and manuscript paintings made for Muslim patrons where the Nāth yogi appears as an emblem and surrogate for the Islamic spiritual path of taṣawwuf (Sufism), an archetype for the mystical traveler (sālik) and a figure of spiritual longing.