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Societal Grand Challenges and the role of Engineering Education in the 21st Century

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Thu, Feb 27, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET

SAI Webinar Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, SEAS; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS In our rapidly transforming world, engineering plays an ever more central role, especially in advancing basic science, creating tools and everyday technologies, driving economic development and meeting societal challenges in areas from energy to […]

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GSA Workshop: Research and South Asia

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Wed, Feb 26, 2014 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Over the past decade South Asia has grown immensely in popularity as a research destination for students of disciplines ranging from religion to public health. The six Graduate Student Associates (GSAs) of the South Asia Institute — whose backgrounds include political science, education, law, public health, and history — will speak on their experiences in […]

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China-India Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality?

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Wed, Feb 26, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Science Technology and Energy Seminar Bharath Gopalaswamy, Deputy Director, South Asia Center, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. Jaganath Sankaran, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School Co-Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Modern Asia Seminar Series   

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Innovation, Exploitation, and Documentation in the 21st-Century Slums

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Thu, Feb 20, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Katherine Boo, New Yorker Staff Writer, Author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Senior Loeb Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Katherine is a staff writer at the The New Yorker Magazine and the author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, winner of the National Book […]

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The Brittle Forge: Higher Education and India’s Human Capital

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Tue, Feb 18, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Education Seminar Devesh Kapur,  Associate Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Higher Education in India is going through profound changes, not […]

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Religious politics and the survival of secularism in Bangladesh

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Tue, Feb 18, 2014 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Sufia Uddin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Connecticut College Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Cosponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

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