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Tue, Mar 22, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Tarun Khanna, Director, SAI, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
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Thu, May 5, 2016 - Fri, May 6, 2016, ET
Annual Symposium This year’s Symposium will feature conversations on the topic of democracy across South Asia. Click here for the full schedule and registration.
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Sat, Mar 19, 2016 - Sun, Mar 20, 2016, ET
Special Conference Q+A: The state of architecture in India This two-day conference on architecture in South Asia is being held in partnership with the Tata Trusts, The South Asia Institute (SAI) at Harvard University and Vinod & Saryu Doshi Foundation. Renowned architects from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives and India will participate […]
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Livelihood Creation Project Webinar Dr. Vandana Bhandari, Professor and Dean (Academics) at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi Indian handicrafts are a vast and important, but rapidly-disappearing aspect of Indian society and culture. While a range of handicraft organizations have been at the forefront of introducing consumers to traditional handicraft techniques and skills in […]
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Wed, Feb 3, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Abha Sur, Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, MIT Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst Suraj Yengde, Associate, Dept of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Rohith Chakravarti Vemula was an Indian PhD student at the Hyderabad Central University. […]
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Thu, Mar 10, 2016 from 04:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Film Screening and Discussion Nakul Singh Sawhney, Filmmaker Chair: Asad Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In September 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a pogrom against local Muslim residents. More than 100 were killed and over 80,000 displaced. This film explores the social, political, and economic […]
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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Christopher Clary, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University In traditional surveys in Pakistan, the vast majority of respondents identify India as an enemy and a serious threat to Pakistan. Do these beliefs affect voter choices? In a novel survey experiment, we […]
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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Adam Ziegfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. […]
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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Film Screening Pankaj Butalia, Documentary Filmmaker Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School Join filmmaker Pankaj Butalia for a screening of his film “The Textures of Loss,” followed by a discussion […]
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Tue, Jan 26, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Come hear about SAI Summer Funding opportunities, including research and internship grants, and ask any last minute questions about the application process. Deadline to apply: February 17, 2016 Join the Facebook event.
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Mon, Jan 11, 2016 - Thu, Jan 14, 2016, ET
Livelihood Creation Workshop The Tata Trusts and SAI have collaborated for the Project on ‘Livelihood Creation in India through Social Entrepreneurship and Skill Development’. This Capacity Building Workshop is for organizations from the Handicrafts and Handlooms sectors. Mukti Khaire, Faculty Chair; Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director, Harvard University […]
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Mon, Jan 18, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:30pm, ET
Special Event Welcome by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Director, CSMVS Museum Introductory remarks by Vikram Gandhi, Harvard South Asia Institute Advisory Council Member; Founder, Asha Impact Diana Eck, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Harvard Divinity School Devesh Chaturvedi, Divisional Commissioner, Allahabad, at the 2013 Kumbh Mela Satchit Balsari, Weill Cornell Global Emergency Medicine Division; Harvard T.H. […]
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