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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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South Asia Week 2015: A Moment of Opportunity for U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Mon, Apr 27, 2015 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

Ambassador Daniel Feldman, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, discusses U.S. engagement in the region in a seminar co-sponsored by the India and South Asia Program and the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University. Daniel F. Feldman is the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) with the personal rank of Ambassador. He has served […]

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South Asia Week 2015: Afghanistan – Covering America’s Longest War

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Mon, Apr 27, 2015 from 02:30pm — 04:00pm, ET

Harvard Kennedy School Alumnus Sean Carberry, recently-returned Kabul Bureau Chief for NPR, discusses covering America’s longest war with Anand Gopal, author of “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes,” in conversation with Future of Diplomacy Project Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver, in a seminar co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center. Sean Carberry was most […]

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South Asia Week 2015: Ambassador Jalil Jilani on US-Pakistan relations

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Fri, Apr 24, 2015 from 02:30pm — 04:00pm, ET

In this first public event of the Future of Diplomacy Project’s annual South Asia Week Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani discusses his country’s relationship with the United States and regional powers in a talk moderated by South Asia Institute Director, Professor Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School. Ambassador Jilani assumed his responsibilities as Ambassador of Pakistan on January 2, […]

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India’s National Security Calculus

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Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:00pm, ET

A lecture by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India The South Asian Politics seminar series is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the MIT Center for International Studies Free and open to […]

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The Ephemeral City: Looking at Temporary Landscape of Religion in South Asia and Latin America

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Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:00pm, ET

What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion about urbanism globally? Professor Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of  the Department of Urban Planing and Design (GSD), will moderate a conversation across disciplines about ephemerality in the landscapes of South Asian and Latin American cities.  The panel will feature Harvard scholars Felipe Hernandez (GSD), Marianne […]

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Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity Book Launch and Exhibition

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Thu, Apr 16, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Over fifty Harvard professors, students, administrative staff, and medical practitioners made the pilgrimage to Allahabad, India, to the Kumbh Mela site in 2013, to analyze issues that emerge in any large-scale human gathering. The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral MEGACITY book and exhibition consolidate research findings and serve as an example of interdisciplinary research conducted at […]

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South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact

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Thu, Apr 16, 2015 - Fri, Apr 17, 2015, ET

Annual Symposium Workshops to highlight interfaculty research projects supported by SAI, and launch of the exhibit and book Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity. Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:00 – 12:00 pm: Mobile Technology to Access Healthcare Services – Case Studies from the Global South 1:00 – 3:00 pm: Role of South Asian Arts in Education 4:00 – 4:30 […]

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The People’s Hero? Jayaprakash Narayan Reconsidered

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Thu, Apr 9, 2015 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

SAI Student Event Mircea Raianu, PhD Candidate, Harvard History Department; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University; former Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for Area Studies; former Graduate Student Associate, South Asia Institute Anand Vaidya, South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute; former Graduate Student […]

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Digital Archives and Public History: Documenting and Exhibiting South Asian American Stories

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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

SAI and MIT-India present: Lecture Series: South Asia and Its Diasporas Samip Mallick, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive Pawan Dhingra, Founding Curator of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation Professor and Director, Department of Sociology, Tufts University Moderated by Vivek Bald, 2014-15 Harvard University Charles […]

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