This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. Book Talk Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Environment and Rural Development Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School To The Brink and Back is an account of the events leading to the path-breaking economic liberalisation unveiled by Rao’s government with […]
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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor The University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In the two decades following the creation of Pakistan, the government embarked on a lofty project to establish Muslim nationalism as a two pronged symbol: a […]
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Fri, Nov 6, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Dhruv Kazi, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Center for Healthcare Value, University of California San Francisco, Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital Tarun Khanna, Director of Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Facilitated by Meera Gandhi, CEO and […]
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Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 07:00pm, ET
Click here to watch a recording of the presentation. Join Global Studies Outreach at Harvard for an online discussion of Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh led by Professor Sunil Amrith of the Departments of History and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Please note that given the length of the novel we will structure the discussion based on the assumption […]
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Thu, Nov 5, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Laila Bushra, Babar Ali Fellow, South Asia Institute Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Over the last three decades, Islamic educational institutions (madrassas) operating in Pakistan have witnessed a dramatic expansion in their numbers and geographical scope. Being more than simply the breeding grounds for […]
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Arts Seminar Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Chitra Venkataramani, South Asian Studies Fellow, South Asia Institute Kandalgaonkar’s art practice focuses primarily on unseen or ignored processes of urbanization. In his work, he draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document, represent and critique urban flows. cityinflux is the name of his practice […]
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Mon, Nov 2, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
Student Event Tamara Fernando, History of Art and Architecture & Economics, 2016 Chunkikuli Ladies College, Internship, Sri Lanka Jeshurun Gnanasegaram, Harvard College, 2017 Harvard Bangalore Science Initiative Want to intern in Asia, but unsure where to begin? Do you want to get experience in a particular country and need ideas? Hear from a student panel […]
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Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 05:00pm, ET
Photographs by Grzegorz Ekiert Ongoing exhibit through October 29, 2015 Closing reception and fundraiser: Thursday, October 29, 5:00 p.m. This exhibit is designed to raise funds for SAI’s Nepal Research and Reconstruction Fund. It provides support for projects in Nepal developed in partnership with local organizations, with a focus on Nepal’s long-term reconstruction. Visit the Harvard […]
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Wed, Oct 28, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Harvard/MIT Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samia Khatun, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne Discussant: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Australian deserts today are dotted with the remains of 19th century mosques. Built by South Asian merchants and workers in the era of the Australian camel trade, 1860 – 1930, these […]
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Tue, Oct 27, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Peter Scriver, Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of Adelaide Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In Jawaharlal Nehru’s strategic vision for India’s postcolonial modernization and development, the architecture and urbanism of Chandigarh, the new Punjab State Capital, was of ‘enormous importance’. ‘It hits […]
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