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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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Myanmar’s Delicate Imbalance: the predicament of the short game vs the long game in a complicated neighborhood (or, why the ‘environment’ gets a back seat)”

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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET

Robert Anderson, Development & Sustainability Program, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Late this year Myanmar will stage elections, again. There are welcome changes which make this time quite different from the earlier two contests. Reflecting further back ten years, however, even those limited changes were very hard to foresee. Anderson will review some […]

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Silencing India’s Daughter

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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

6:00 – 7:00 PM Documentary Screening 7:00 – 8:00 PM Panel Discussion Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Diane Rosenfeld, Lecturer on Law and Director of the Gender Violence Program, Harvard Law School Beena Sarwar, Editor, Aman ki Asha, Jang Group Pakistan; former Nieman Fellow and Fellow at the Carr Center for Human […]

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Beyond Harvard

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Mon, Mar 9, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Student Event Rahul Bose, Actor, Director & Social Activist Chair: Richard Delacy, Preceptor in Hindi and Urdu, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University  Welcome by Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College Described as the ‘Indian art house icon’ by TIME magazine, Rahul Bose won Best Actor, Singapore Film Festival, and Best Debut Director (second prize), for ‘Everybody […]

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India Conference at Harvard

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Sat, Mar 7, 2015 - Sun, Mar 8, 2015, ET

The India Conference at Harvard is one of the largest India conferences in the US. It is hosted at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School by the graduate students of Harvard University. The conference will bring together business leaders, entertainment professionals, government officials, philanthropists, and many other leaders to engage in a conversation […]

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Explore Careers in South Asia (Panel & Mixer)

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Thu, Mar 5, 2015 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

Harvard undergraduates: Have you ever thought about working in South Asia, but aren’t sure what opportunities exist, what it would be like, or how to begin? Enjoy food from the region and hear from panelists who have worked in a variety of sectors in South Asia! After the panel, stay for an informal mixer, where […]

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Pakistan: From Crisis to Crisis

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Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 04:15pm, ET

10th Annual Asia Center Tsai Lecture Asma Jahangir, Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan; Partner, AGHS Law Associates; former President, Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan; former Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Chair: Arthur Kleinman, Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor […]

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Innovative Solutions to India’s Healthcare Problems

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Tue, Feb 24, 2015

SAI San Francisco Series Event Speakers Piya Sorcar, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, TeachAIDS, representatives from USAID, and Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard University South Asia Institute, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, will discuss the current ecosystem surrounding India’s healthcare system, and avenues that should be further explored for identifying worthwhile investments in healthcare. While […]

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CANCELLED: Summer Grant Information Session

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Tue, Jan 27, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm, ET

This event has been cancelled.    Please visit our Summer Grants page for frequently asked questions. Come hear about SAI Summer Funding opportunities, including research and internship grants, and ask any last minute questions about the application process. Summer Grant Applications Deadlines: All Graduate Grant Applications: February 13, 2015 All Undergraduate Grant Applications: February 9, […]

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