SAI Event Region : Pakistan

Looking Back, Informing the Future: The 1947 Partition of British India

START
Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 06:00pm

END
Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 08:00pm

COST Free

VENUE
Ali Institute of Education, Lahore

Cultural/Social Events, Workshops and Round Tables, Homepage Event, Partition, Special Event, Pakistan

Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) and Faiz Foundation Trust invite you to a program on The 1947 Partition of British India.

Partition: “Implications of Mass Dislocation Across Geographies”

START
Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 06:00pm

END
Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 08:00pm

COST Free

VENUE
Habib University, Karachi

Cultural/Social Events, Talk, Homepage Event, Partition, Special Event, Pakistan

Join us for a roundtable discussion in Karachi, facilitated by one of the senior faculty driving the SAI Partition Project: Professor Jennifer Leaning.

Crossroads Summer Program

START
Fri, Aug 11, 2017

END
Mon, Aug 14, 2017

VENUE
Dubai, UAE

Lecture, Seminars, Student Seminar, Cosponsored Event, Education, Homepage Event, Special Event, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

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.

Workshop on the Liberal Arts in Higher Education

START
Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:00am

END
Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 06:00pm

COST $125

VENUE
Dubai, UAE

Conferences and Symposiums, Panel, Workshops and Round Tables, Cosponsored Event, Education, Homepage Event, Special Event, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

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.

Dastangoi: The art of Urdu storytelling

START
Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 04:30pm

END
Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 06:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Seminars, Muslim Societies in South Asia, India, Pakistan

*Please not the change in start time.

Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar

Ankit Chadha, Storyteller / Author

Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University

Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling, developed in eighth century A.D. around the adventures of an Arab hero, Amir Hamza. These stories became very popular in the 19th century North India. With the demise of the last known exponent of the art form in 1928, Mir Baqar Ali, the form also died with him. The modern revival has seen not just the performance of the traditional stories from the Hamza dastan, but also the adaptations of more local and contemporary themes. Ankit Chadha, a writer and storyteller, has been a practitioner of Dastangoi since 2010. His writing varies from biographical accounts of personalities like Kabir, Rahim, Dara Shikoh and Majaaz to modern folk tales on corporate culture, internet and mobile technology. Ankit also has works for young audiences and has worked on Urdu adaptations of children’s classics; including Alice and The Little Prince. He is the author of the award-winning book for children, My Gandhi Story, and the recently released, Amir Khusrau – The Man in Riddles.

Summer Grant Opportunities Open House

START
Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 04:00pm

END
Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 05:30pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Student Seminar, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Come hear about SAI S ummer Funding opportunities, including research and internship grants, and ask any last minute questions about the application process.

Deadline to apply: February 15, 2017

The Importance of Religious and Cultural Literacy in a Cosmopolitan World

START
Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:00pm

END
Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 07:00pm

VENUE
Karachi, Pakistan

Lecture, Special Event, Pakistan

Special Event

Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; former Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University

Our world is marked by difference. The inability to engage with and understand these differences has led to polarizations, tensions and conflict in many societies. In recent decades, these conflicts have been particularly acute and tragic when they are framed in religious terms. Illiteracy about the nature of religion has led to political climates that are crippling intellectually and threatening to the pluralistic fabric of society. This talk will discuss the importance of promoting literacy about the relationship between religion and culture as one of the essential pre-requisites for the well-being of societies and the project of democracy globally.

Cosponsored with Habib University

Register.

Urbanization in South Asia: Conversations from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

START
Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 06:30pm

END
Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 08:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

Seminars, Urbanization, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan

Urbanization Seminar

Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore

Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America

Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University

Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

This panel brings together three urban scholars and practitioners from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and it deals with the contemporary challenges facing rapid urbanization in South Asia. This panel presents a unique opportunity to have a cross-cutting conversation across South Asian countries to both situate their planning experiences in their specific contexts, but to also ask if there are any commonalities about the South Asian urban experience. It is also a chance to learn about design and planning practices from across neighboring boundaries.