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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

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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

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Fri, Aug 11, 2017 - Mon, Aug 14, 2017, ET

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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

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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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Dastangoi: The art of Urdu storytelling

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Mon, Mar 6, 2017 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

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*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 […]

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The Importance of Religious and Cultural Literacy in a Cosmopolitan World

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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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 […]

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

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

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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 […]

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