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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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Wed, Feb 19, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
Social Enterprise Seminar Sunil Khilnani, Avantha Professor and Director, King’s India Institute, King’s College London, Senior Loeb Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Author of The Idea of India Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, Brown University; Director, Brown-India Initiative Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann […]
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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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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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Sat, Feb 15, 2014 - Sun, Feb 16, 2014, ET
Join us at the 12th edition of the India Conference at Harvard to exchange powerful ideas, kindle new partnerships, question the status-quo and push your peers and yourself to shape your idea of what India in the 21st century stands for. The theme of this year’s conference is India, Turning the Page: Prospects and Paradoxes and speakers include Pawan Munjal, CEO of Hero Corp; Gen V.K. Singh, Former Chief of the Indian Army; Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, NDTV; Aruna Roy, Political and Social Activist; Ambassador Shyam Saran, Bollywood Director Shakun Batra and many more. Panel topics cover a wide range of interests such as Tourism and Hospitality, Global Implications of Indian politics, the LGBT rights movement, Women interaction in the corporate world and the Future of impact investing in India, among others.
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South Asia Institute Book Talk Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer and journalist Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT A book sale will follow the event.
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Wed, Jan 29, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Come hear about SAI Summer Funding opportunities from 2013 SAI grant recipients. Learn about the various types of grants, the application process, how to write an appropriate budget for a summer in South Asia, and enjoy some delicious South Asian food.
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Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:00pm, ET
The Harvard Club of Mumbai, the Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI), the Harvard Business School India Research Center, and the Harvard Alumni Association is hosting Harvard alumni in Mumbai, India, for a reception and remarks on “Building World-Class Education: What Lessons Does Harvard Offer?” Participants include: Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research, FXB Center for […]
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Thu, Jan 9, 2014 - Sun, Jan 12, 2014, ET
This conference will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners to explore new frontiers in research on the contemporary South Asian city. South Asia includes some of the largest and fastest-‐growing urban agglomerations in the world today, all of which are growing increasingly interconnected with the larger regional and global economy. Equally relevant is […]
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Harvard alumni and friends will gather in Kolkata for a conversation with Diana Eck about her most recent book, India: A Sacred Geography. Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Member of the Faculty of Divinity, […]
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