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Fri, Feb 22, 2013 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
The Future of Water Security in the Indus River Basin: Risks and Opportunities Casey Brown, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chair: John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard School of […]
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Fri, Oct 21, 2011 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Chair: Hiteshkumar Hathi, Producer of NPR’s ‘Here and Now’ Co-sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design Watch this seminar here.
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Tue, Feb 19, 2013 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Deruralization: The Modernist City in the Age of Globalization Vikramāditya Prakāsh, Professor of Architecture; Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, Adjunct Professor of Urban Design and Planning; Director, Chandigarh Urban Lab, University of Washington Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 07:00pm, ET — Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00pm, ET
Cultural/Social Events, Global Health, South Asia Without Borders, Urbanization, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
South Asia: The World’s Laboratory A special SAI event in New York City. Inquire for details:sainit@fas.harvard.edu Home to nearly a sixth of humanity, the birthplace of many of the world’s great religions and philosophies, and now a hotbed for innovation and technological change, South Asia is truly the world’s laboratory, a space where we can […]
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Mon, Mar 5, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
The Harvard University Asia Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University present a forum on The United States in Asia: Five Media Perspectives With the participation of Nieman Fellows from Asia Moderated by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor […]
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Tue, Nov 27, 2012 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Nadeem Hussain, Founder, President and CEO, Tameer Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Pakistan Nadeem Hussain will discuss the financial revolution which the Tameer Bank is bringing to Pakistan by financially empowering people at the grassroots level, including innovative work such as branchless banking and solar energy. Discussant: Professor Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Nasim Zehra, […]
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Thu, Dec 8, 2011 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director Facilitated by Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School and Lecturer on Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the FXB Center at Harvard, co-sponsored in part by SAI
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Tue, Apr 17, 2012 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Pakistani music icon and social activist, Shehzad Roy will talk about his new documentary series titled “Chal Parha.”The show dramatizes Roy’s journey to schools across Pakistan and stages and expose of Pakistan’s national education system. Roy will share how his music has helped him advocate for education reform and will expand upon some of the […]
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Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:30pm, ET
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is a based on a Bengali novel by Bimal Mitra, providing a glimpse into the fall of feudalism in Bengal during the era of the British Raj. The film explores a platonic relationship between the lonely and beautiful wife of an aristocrat and a hard-working, part-time servant. The film has been […]
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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
DAIRA (“Circle”) is a 2002 Pakistani movie based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, DAIRA is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled.” It is a story of the vicious circle of love, lust, longing, and […]
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Fri, Mar 23, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Faith, Loyalty, Status: Mughal-era Perspectives on Elite Rajput Conversions to Islam Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Ramya Srinivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies.
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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1965 Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Vivek Bald is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. […]
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