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Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 05:15pm
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Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 07:00pm
Directed by Marc Forster, United States
Amir returns to Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.
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Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 08:00am
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Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 05:00pm
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Harvard Faculty Club
ADDRESS
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The “Future of Afghanistan” conference, co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s India & South Asia Program, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and the Harvard South Asia Institute, is a daylong conference that seeks to answer important questions about the current state of affairs in Afghanistan and the prospects for regional peace and stability in a post-2014 world. It will be hosted at Harvard University on Friday April 5, 2013.
The conference will feature an array of prominent voices from the region, as well as South Asia experts from the United States and beyond. Panels will cover two broad thematic areas: the challenges and opportunities related to negotiations and security in Afghanistan, and the rule of law and human development.
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Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:00pm
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Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:15pm
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Inn at Harvard
ADDRESS
Inn at Harvard
1201 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA
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Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 08:30am
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Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:00am
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CGIS Knafel, K354
Harvard University
ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA
Innovation in Education: Lessons for Entrepreneurship in PakistanFernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy
Imran Sarwar, Co-Founder, Rabtt; MPP Class of 2013, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Seminar Report:
The third Video Conference of the new SAI Series of Webinars focused on ‘Innovation in Education: Lessons for Entrepreneurship in Pakistan’. Professor Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Imran Sarwar, Co-Founder, Rabtt (Connection); MPP Class of 2013, Harvard Kennedy School of Government led the discussion with academic sites across Pakistan. In addition, for the first time a Facebook event for the Webinar attracted 120 people to virtually attend the event – our partner, Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission provided a live web link for online streaming so that the discussion was available to anyone with an internet connection.
Professor Reimers started his presentation on ‘Educating to Change the World’ with acknowledging how much education has changed over the last 25 years – the very fact of the Video Conference itself through which sites were virtually connected is a demonstration of how much technology has enhanced access around the world. He said we are in a new era in history when instead of top-down planning individuals and small groups of people are taking on big challenges – it’s a time of great potential change. He spoke of the fact that we need to move from teaching low-level cognitive skills that had been the focus of much formal education in the past to higher level leadership skills for the 21st century by developing adaptable skills to apply knowledge and learning in new ways. He spoke of the great work of Injaz al-Arab under the visionary leadership of Soraya Salti that he has been helping evaluate over the last 2 years and the phenomenal outcomes of the program in developing a sense of agency in youth and the ability to see challenges as opportunities. He also spoke of the ability inherent in all of us to teach and that we can’t expect professional teachers to bear all the burdens of teaching – he exhorted the audience to action. In reply to a twitter question about encouraging business and academia linkages, he spoke of an example from Monterey, Mexico about an innovative approach taken by a University president who asked local government and business leaders how his institution could help them grow – he then led the change to respond to those social demands – exactly the kind of model higher education needs to move towards to be a center for development and innovation in the 21st century.
Imran Sarwar spoke of his experiences along with a friend and colleague from LUMS, Aneeq Ahmed Cheema when they formed Rabtt in the summer of 2011. Listening to his personal story of how he managed family and social expectations in going down his chosen and unconventional path to make a start at changing the reality of children who attend public sector schools was heartening. He exhorted would-be entrepreneurs to not wait to start till conditions were perfect or support was forthcoming – he said, start now and you’ll attract people who think like you to join your work – and that money and finances will also flow to the work you start! He spoke of how privileged children from elite schools live in their bubbles while children in public sector schools are very street smart. Rabtt is working on connecting these two worlds. Professor Reimers reiterated that a progressive society must be more equitable and heartily endorsed Imran’s efforts –at the end he asked us all to free ourselves from toxic mentalities and begin to take responsibility to change social conditions – now!
Mariam Chughtai (doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education) ably moderated the Videoconference and handled switching between different sites enabled by HEC’s Virtual Education Project and Erum Sattar (doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School) moderated an active twitter feed on: #SAIEdInnovation
Innovation in Education
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Pakistan Student Group
Readings:
http://blogs.hbr.org/innovations-in-education/2011/03/educational-innovation-technol.html
http://www.americasquarterly.org/preview-fall2010-reimers
http://drclas.harvard.edu/publications/revistaonline/fall-2012/innovating-universities
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Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 06:00pm
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Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 08:00pm
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CGIS Knafel, K354
Harvard University
ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA
Chair: David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics
Panelists: Marc Mitchell, Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health
The Use of Mobile Technology to improve Health Care in South Africa
Glorian Sorensen, Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Tobacco Cessation of Indian School Teachers and Manufacturing Workers
Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI, Washington DC, Former Ambassador to Togo
Social Marketing to Improve Health Outcomes
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Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 05:00pm
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Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 06:30pm
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CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College; Research Fellow, TheWeatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University
Joel Trachtman, Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Paul Vaaler, Associate Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
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Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 05:30pm
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Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:00pm
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CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Social Good: Where Investments in Women and Girls Make the Greatest ImpactJacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, and Director of Research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Theresa Betancourt, Associate Professor of Child Health and Human Rights Department of Global Health and Population and Director, Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Farzana Haque, Tata Consultancy Services
Harleen Singh, Helaine and Alvin Allen Assistant Professor of Literature, Co-Chair, South Asian Studies Program, Brandeis University
Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
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Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:30pm
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Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 07:00pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
R.A. Mashelkar, President of the Global Research Alliance
Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Dr. Ramesh Mashelkar is President of Global Research Alliance, a network of 60,000 scientists from five continents. He is a Fellow of Royal Society, NAS, NAE & AAAS.
Inclusive innovation is any innovation that leads to affordable access of quality goods and services for the excluded population, primarily at the base of the pyramid, on a long term sustainable basis with a significant outreach.
The lecture will show how inclusive innovation can fuel the creation of not only an `inclusive society’ but also `inclusive business’.
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Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:00pm
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Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:00pm
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CGIS Knafel, K262
Harvard University
ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
HealthTap: Bringing Interactive Mobile Health to Asia and Beyond
Ron Gutman, Founder & CEO, HealthTap
Chairs: David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics, Harvard School of Public Health and Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of SAI
For more information on this event and video, please click here.
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Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 04:00pm
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Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Low Cost, High-impact Innovative Solutions For the Bottom 2 BillionAshok Gadgil, Division Director, and Faculty Senior Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, LBNL; Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair of Safe Water and Sanitation; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of SAI
Dr. Ashok Gadgil has substantial experience in technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation — particularly in developing countries. For example, the utility-sponsored compact fluorescent lamp leasing programs that he pioneered are being successfully implemented by utilities in several east-European and developing countries. He has several patents and inventions to his credit, among them the “UV Waterworks,” a technology to inexpensively disinfect drinking water in the developing countries, for which he received the Discover Award in 1996 for the most significant environmental invention of the year, as well as the Popular Science award for “Best of What is New – 1996″. In recent years, he has worked on ways to inexpensively remove arsenic from Bangladesh drinking water, and on fuel-efficient stoves for Darfur.
This event is part of South Asia Week, sponsored by the India & South Asia Program at the Harvard Kennedy School
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Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:00pm
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Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Robotic Construction by Contour CraftingBehrokh Khoshnevis, Director, Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT); Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California
Chair: Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
The nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in manufacturing, the growth of automation in construction has been slow. A promising new automation approach is Contour Crafting (CC). Invented by the speaker, Contour Crafting is a mega-scale 3D fabrication process aiming at automated on-site construction of whole structures as well as subcomponents. Read more.
Video of the event:
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Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:30am
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Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:00am
Troublemakers: Entrepreneurial Approaches Against Corruption
Karthik Ramanna, Associate Professor, Henry B. Arthur Fellow, Harvard Business School
What does the “business” of corruption-fighting look like? What are the key challenges and how does one measure successes? Professor Ramanna will describe his recent work – based on various HBS case studies – on how four entrepreneurs in China, India, Russia, and Turkey are building organizations to combat corruption in their home countries. All four entrepreneurs are leveraging transparency in their anti-corruption businesses, although they differ in important ways in their reliance on the Internet, their use of anonymity, and their engagement with local political and cultural institutions. The stories of these four entrepreneurs can offer ideas and inspiration to those in other emerging markets who wish to tackle corruption. After a brief description of the case studies, Professor Ramanna will open the discussion to questions and input from participants on what entrepreneurial corruption-fighting in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka might look like.
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