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SAI Event Region : Pakistan


South Asia Exchange: Thoughts, Responses and Questions

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Wed, Oct 8, 2014 from 06:00pm — 09:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South Concourse
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South Concourse
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

A group show called South Asia Exchange: An exhibition exploring contemporary dialogue about South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, including social justice, pop culture, industry, the environment, food, music, and how they come into play with the idea of exchange. Exhibit duration: October 6 – October 14, 2014 Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 6 […]

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Webinar: Mass Casualty Triage

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Wed, Nov 19, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET

Usha Periyanayagam, MD, International Emergency Medicine Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School When there are many injured people in an incident, non-medical personal might be needed to begin care of patients. This seminar will teach triage, a simple way to determine the priority of patient treatment, and the basics of […]

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Webinar: Incident Command

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Wed, Oct 1, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am, ET

Shawn D’Andrea, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative South Asia is particularly vulnerable to disasters, from terrorist attacks, to floodings, to earthquakes that can affect large populations. In order to address these humanitarian crises, the fundamentals of mass casualty management are critical. This seminar will teach incident command, which is a […]

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Dictatorship and Development: The Dilemma of the Left in Pakistan, 1950s-1960s

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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]

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The Wakhis at musical crossroads of Tajikistan and Pakistan

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Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 01:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

SAI South Asia Without Border Seminar Richard Wolf, Department of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

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The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

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Wed, Dec 3, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

SAI Book Talk Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University Discussant: Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Cosponsored by the Prince Alwaleed […]

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CANCELLED: Conversation with Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador of Pakistan to the US and Britain

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Thu, Nov 13, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

This event has been cancelled.   Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador of Pakistan to the US and Britain Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program  

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Love, War & Other Longings

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Fri, Oct 31, 2014 - Sun, Nov 2, 2014, ET

Pakistani Film Festival Cosponsored by the Brown University India Initiative    Fri Oct 31: Hallow’s Eve: Chainsaw Spatter 6:00 pm Zibaah Khana (77minutes) Sat Nov 1: Saint’s Day: Directors in Conversation 11:20 am A Brief History of Pakistani Cinema Lecture by Iftikhar Dadi 12:00 pm Josh (104 minutes) 2:00 pm Q+A with Josh Director, Iram Parveen […]

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Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies in South Asia: Through a Peacebuilding Lens

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Tue, Sep 9, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University

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

SAI Book Talk Moeed Yusuf, Editor of Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge and Director of South Asia Programs at the US Institute of Peace Chair: Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Dr.Yusuf has studied counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency responses in many countries including Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal and other non-South Asian countries. In his talk, […]

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Chaat Welcome Back Party

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Mon, Sep 8, 2014 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South Concourse
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South Concourse
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Celebrate the start of the school year with the Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI)! Enjoy delicious food from all over South Asia. Meet representatives from student groups across Harvard that focus on South Asia. Learn about SAI’s internship and funding opportunities.   If you are interested in representing your South Asia focused student group at […]

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Summer Film Series: Josh (Against the Grain)

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Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, has her life shattered when her nanny, Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Josh is the story of Fatima’s search, despite the warning of her friends and family, for a dangerous truth in Nusrat’s feudal village. Musically intense and colorfully raw, JOSH takes a sneak peek inside […]

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Mangoes, Alice and the Missing Baloch: A conversation with Pakistani writer and journalist Mohammed Hanif

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Fri, Jan 31, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

VENUE
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

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

South Asia Institute Book Talk Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer and journalist Abhijit Banerjee,  Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT A book sale will follow the event.   

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