A Reading and Discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur & Vivek Bald Moderated by Walter Johnson Inaugurating “South Asia and Its Diasporas” A new event/lecture series co-sponsored by MIT-India & SAI Join the Facebook event. In 1903, a young woman named Sujaria and a young man named Abdul Aziz left the port of Calcutta in separate ships, sailing […]
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Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
SAI Book Talk Jeffrey Witsoe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Union College Discussant: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, […]
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Fri, Apr 18, 2014
A conversation with Diana Eck Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University, invites Harvard alumni and friends to join her in a conversation about India: A Sacred Geography. Eck’s book explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this […]
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Fri, Mar 14, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Global Health Seminar Dr. Paul C. Salins, Medical Director & Vice President, Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center and Narayana Hrudayalaya Multi Specialty Hospital Chair: Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University For more than 30 years, Dr. Salins has modified, rebuilt and deconstructed faces, some to create harmony, others to restore normalcy, and few to meet […]
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Wed, Mar 5, 2014 from 04:15pm — 05:45pm, ET
Global Health Seminar Dr. Michael Phillips, Director, Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Executive Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine. Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental […]
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Wed, Apr 16, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Science, Technology and Energy Seminar Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program’s Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Seating is limited. Seminars in this series are presentations and fairly technical economics papers. Some background in economics is helpful.
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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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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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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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SAI Webinar Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Women lag behind men on many metrics across the world (health, education, wages), including political representation. Professor Iyer will discuss two major questions: •Does electing women to political office make any difference? •Given that women comprise only 21.4% of national parliaments across the […]
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SAI Book Talk Ramachandra Guha, Author and Independent Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of the Centre for Policy Research; Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Book Store Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author RAMACHANDRA GUHA and President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, PRATAP BHANU MEHTA for a discussion of Guha’s new book Gandhi Before India. […]
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Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 01:30pm — 03:00pm, ET
Science Technology and Energy Seminar Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor, Delhi University; Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Political Anthropology Working Group Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian with a special interest in environmental history and colonial history of British India. He […]
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