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Innovative Solutions to India’s Healthcare Problems

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Tue, Feb 24, 2015

SAI San Francisco Series Event Speakers Piya Sorcar, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, TeachAIDS, representatives from USAID, and Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard University South Asia Institute, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, will discuss the current ecosystem surrounding India’s healthcare system, and avenues that should be further explored for identifying worthwhile investments in healthcare. While […]

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“The Water, Forest, and Land Belong to Us”: Collective action and property in an Indian forest

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Mon, Feb 23, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Border Seminar  Anand Vaidya, SAI South Asian Studies Fellow Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Q+A with Anand Vaidya: The politics of conservation In September 2011, a forest village in Uttar Pradesh named Ramnagar was destroyed. The village had been settled four years earlier by landless members of lower […]

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Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries

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Tue, Feb 17, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

SAI Book Talk Sanchita Saxena, Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Berkeley; Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Fauzia Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Miami University; SAI Research Affiliate Chair: John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Professor in Health Policy and […]

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Cancelled: Webinar: Planning and Preparedness

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Tue, Feb 10, 2015 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

This webinar has been cancelled and will take place on February 25. SAI Webinar Payal Modi, MD, MPH, Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Mass casualty responses work best when there is a well-rehearsed plan. This seminar will cover planning for a disaster, preparatory drills, and debriefing, drawing from the experience of the Boston Marathon […]

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Cancelled: The Ephemeral City: Looking at Temporary Landscape of Religion in South Asia and Latin America

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Mon, Feb 9, 2015 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Due to weather and the University closing, this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. SAI Arts Initiative Event Exhibition Reception and Personal Tour at 5:30PM in the CGIS South Second Floor Lobby, followed by a panel discussion at 6:30PM CGIS S010. What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion […]

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Coded Elegance

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Sat, Jan 31, 2015

SAI Photo Exhibit On Display in the CGIS South Concourse from Nov. 5, 2014 – Jan. 31, 2015.  Open Mondays-Thursdays 7am – 9pm; Fridays 7am – 7pm Capturing South Asia: Interview with Pablo Bartholomew Coded Elegance, by Pablo Bartholomew, is a series of ethno-anthropological photographs of tribes and people of the hills and valleys of Arunachal […]

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CANCELLED: Summer Grant Information Session

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Tue, Jan 27, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm, ET

This event has been cancelled.    Please visit our Summer Grants page for frequently asked questions. Come hear about SAI Summer Funding opportunities, including research and internship grants, and ask any last minute questions about the application process. Summer Grant Applications Deadlines: All Graduate Grant Applications: February 13, 2015 All Undergraduate Grant Applications: February 9, […]

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The Life and Times of Dadabhai Naoroji

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Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 06:00pm, ET

Dinyar Patel, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University, SAI Graduate Associate Today, Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) is primarily identified as an early economic thinker, a leader of the moderate wing of the Congress, and the first Indian elected to the British Parliament. This standard school textbook description, however, does little justice to the “Grand Old Man of India,” […]

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Addressing Gender Norms Through Education: Developing and Implementing Adolescent Curriculum

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Fri, Jan 9, 2015

A one day seminar to explore new developments in curriculum development and implementation by state, civil, and the academic community. Participation by invitation only. Hosted by Harvard South Asia Institute Gender Violence Project, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University and Population Foundation of India. More about the Harvard Gender Violence Project. 

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Harvard-US India Initiative Annual Conference

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Fri, Jan 9, 2015 - Sat, Jan 10, 2015, ET

The Harvard India Initiative 2015, co-sponsored by SAI, hopes to foster targetted dialogue and academic critique on India’s future. This conference is bringing together 450 of the brightest young minds from across the world and India in the hopes of creating a tradition of research-focused policy-making in one of the most vibrant democracies and economies […]

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