SAI Webinar Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Women lag behind men on many metrics across the world (health, education, wages), including political representation. Professor Iyer will discuss two major questions: •Does electing women to political office make any difference? •Given that women comprise only 21.4% of national parliaments across the […]
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Wed, May 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
A billion people, or one-seventh of the world’s population, now live in slums in developing country cities. Mumbai, India, possibly has the world’s largest population of slum dwellers: 50-60% of its population lives in informal settlements on <9% of the city’s land area. A significant proportion of those slum residents live in “non-notified” settlements that […]
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Mon, May 5, 2014 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
SAI Book Talk Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Chair: Emma Dench, Professor of the Classics and of History, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of the Classics, Harvard University The claim, often made, that India—uniquely among civilizations—lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according […]
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Mon, May 5, 2014 - Wed, May 7, 2014, ET
Cosponsored with Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture; Harvard University South Asia Institute; Habitat for Humanity; International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; Harvard Humanitarian Initiative www.designforurbandisaster.com
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Thu, May 1, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Muhammad Zahir, SAI Aman Fellow; Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Hazara University, Pakistan Chair: Richard Meadow, Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory, Harvard Peabody Museum; Senior-Lecturer, Harvard Anthropology Department The protohistoric cemeteries in northwestern Pakistan, commonly known as the Gandhara Grave Culture of Pakistan, have primarily been explained in terms of migrations and as […]
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SAI Book Talk Ramachandra Guha, Author and Independent Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of the Centre for Policy Research; Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Book Store Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author RAMACHANDRA GUHA and President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, PRATAP BHANU MEHTA for a discussion of Guha’s new book Gandhi Before India. […]
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Thu, Apr 24, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
SAI Mahindra Lecture Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Founder and Chairperson of BRAC Introduction: Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing Sir Fazle was born in 1936 in Bangladesh. He was educated both at Dhaka and Glasgow universities. He was a professional […]
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Thu, Apr 24, 2014 - Fri, Apr 25, 2014, ET
SAI Annual Symposium As part of its Annual Symposium, SAI is hosting a series of workshops on April 24 and 25 to highlight ongoing faculty research projects supported by SAI. Thursday, April 24, 2014: Mobile Technology, 8:30 am – 11:00 am Disasters and Mental Health, 11:15 am – 1:45 pm The Contemporary South Asian City, […]
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SAI Book Talk T.V Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, McGill University Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global […]
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Fri, Apr 18, 2014
A conversation with Diana Eck Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University, invites Harvard alumni and friends to join her in a conversation about India: A Sacred Geography. Eck’s book explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this […]
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