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SAI Event Region : India





SAI Symposium in New Delhi

Higher Education in South Asia: Enhancing Access and Quality through Innovative Solutions Welcome by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust Speakers included Manzoor Ahmed, Jacqueline Bhaba, Howard Gardner, Meenakshi Gopinath, Tarun Khanna, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, M. Omar Rahman, and Nikhil Sinha. For more information, please click here.

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SAI Student Seminar

WHEN
Wed, Feb 20, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Sexual Assault and Gender Violence in South Asia: What Can We Learn from the Delhi Rape Incident? Featuring a Student Panel Discussion withNur Nasreen Ibrahim (College); Abbas Jaffer (GSAS); Mariam Chughtai (HGSE); Litcy Kurisinkal (HKS); and Sabrin Chowdhury (HKS).  Chair: Jackie Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, University Advisor on Human Rights, University […]

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SAI Film Event

WHEN
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Stir. Fry. Simmer Vani Subramanian, Film Maker; Visiting Fellow, Cornell University Chair: Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies & Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University The film screening (54 minutes) will be followed by a discussion with the film maker. Reception to follow film screening and discussion Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of […]

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Quarter Number 4/11 – Film Event

WHEN
Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K262
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

RESCHEDULED: NEW DATE & TIME   Ranu Ghosh, Documentary Director and Screenplay Writer Jaya Bhagat, Edward S. Mason Fellow 2013, Harvard Kennedy School Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Quarter Number 4/11 is a ground zero perspective of urban real estate development, as witnessed by director/cinematographer Ranu Ghosh and narrated through the plight of […]

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Public Health at the World’s Largest Gathering

WHEN
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 from 03:30pm — 05:30pm

VENUE
Harvard School of Public Health

ADDRESS
Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge 502
677 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA

A Field Report from India’s Kumbh Mela   Panel discussion and Q & A with HSPH Kumbh Mela Team Featuring: Satchit Balsari MD, MPH: Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights • Associate Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative • Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program / Weill Cornell Medical College • M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health, […]

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Parallel Connections: The Healing Touch of South Asian Visual Art

WHEN
Wed, Apr 4, 2012 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Moderated by: Dr. Bruce Chabner, Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Research, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Panelists: Dr. Joel Katz, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dr. Elizabeth Gaufberg, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Exhibiting artists and panelists include: Kyle Lindholm, Vandana Sharma, Dr. George Taylor, […]

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Parallel Connections: Music and Dance in South Asia Reception and Exhibition

WHEN
Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 06:00pm — 09:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Welcome remarks: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Moderated by: Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Panelists and exhibitors: Visual Arts: Pragati Sharma, Jyoti Joshi, Don Perrault, and Sunanda Sahay  Music: Warren Senders Dance: Ranjani Saigal Reception, exhibition viewing, and live folk art […]

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Oracular Speech, Collective Intention, and the Ideology of Absence

WHEN
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 from 12:15pm — 02:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Case Studies from India Professor William S. Sax, Chair of Ethnology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University “Possession” by gods and spirits is often accompanied by an ideology of absence, according to which those “possessed” have no memory of what they experienced or said during their trance.  Yet many aspects of such events seem to contradict this […]

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