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SAI Spring Art Exhibition: Showcasing Research in South Asia Through Visual Arts

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 04:00pm, ET — Mon, Apr 9, 2018, ET

The SAI Spring Art Exhibition features 2D and 3D art and artifacts inspired by Harvard students who traveled to South Asia sponsored by Harvard SAI travel grants. Some highlights include children’s picture books written in the Indigenous languages of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, photographs of fallen mosques in Myanmar and candid photos of workers […]

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Crossroads Summer Program

The Crossroads Summer Program is a fully-funded introduction to Harvard and American university culture for students from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Africa, who are the first in their families to attend college and may also be facing challenging financial and social circumstances. Leading Harvard faculty will teach an intensive, multidisciplinary four-day curriculum in Dubai, for up to 60 accomplished, motivated youth.

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Workshop on the Liberal Arts in Higher Education

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Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:00am, ET — Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 06:00pm, ET

COST   $125

This is a forum for faculty, administrators, and leadership from universities across South Asia, the Middle East, and neighboring regions (Central Asia and East Asia) to explore ways in which universities may develop a liberal arts education program for undergraduate students, while fostering such objectives as sustainable development; social inclusion and peace; and cooperation across national boundaries among individuals, institutions, and governments. These goals are essential to addressing shared global challenges and to realizing opportunities to advance human well-being. Universities, as institutions that prepare future leadership of societies, have a unique role to play in the achievement of these goals, educating students as global citizens who can understand, value, and contribute to the common good.

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Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of Transition

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Thu, Feb 4, 2016 - Mon, Feb 22, 2016, ET

An exhibit of paintings on display in the CGIS South Concourse, February 4-22, 2016 Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the South Asia Institute **A seminar related to the exhibit will be held on Friday, February 19, 2016, 12:15 p.m. in S153, CGIS South with speaker Ian Holliday, The University of Hong Kong

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Freedom and Fear in Myanmar

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Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:15pm, ET

Modern Asia Seminar and Arts at SAI Seminar Ian Holliday,Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong ‘Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of transition,’ an exhibit of paintings will be on display Thursday, February 4 – Monday, February 22, 2016 in the Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge […]

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Using Cell Phones to Study Behavior: From Individuals to Entire Nations

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Tue, Sep 15, 2015 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET

Webinar Watch the live stream here. JP Onnela, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Cell phones are no longer just a tool of communication – they are being used to improve the lives of billions of people. As the technology continues to improve, collecting behavioral data is getting easier and […]

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Summer in South Asia: Pre-Departure Orientation

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Thu, Apr 30, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

This is an orientation for students who are traveling to South Asia in summer 2015, and will include travel tips and logistics, health and safety information, cultural introduction, and will provide an opportunity to meet other students who will be in the region. Food will be served! All Harvard Students traveling to South Asia in […]

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Webinar: Planning and Preparedness

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Tue, Mar 10, 2015 from 09:00am — 10:30am, ET

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE WEBINAR LIVE 9:00 AM in Cambridge, 5:00 PM in Pakistan, 5:30 PM in India, 5:30 PM in Sri Lanka, 6:00 PM in Bangladesh, 5:45 PM in Nepal Payal Modi, MD, MPH, Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Mass casualty responses work best when there is a well-rehearsed plan. This seminar […]

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