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Mon, Sep 8, 2014
Greetings from the Harvard Club of Chennai! As you know, it’s an interesting coincidence that Harvard University turns 378 on Sep 8th, while Chennai turns 375 years old. To commemorate this occasion, we have a special event planned on Sep 8th, 7pm at The Forum Art Gallery (#57, 5th Street, Padmanabha Nagar, Adyar, Chennai, 600020, India). Cartoonist Biswajit […]
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Thu, Sep 4, 2014 - Fri, Sep 5, 2014, ET
A group of faculty and practitioners will meet at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study for a seminar to discuss the potential of cell phone data for enabling economic and social mobility. The seminar will lay foundation for future interdisciplinary research. Session I: Transferability of Interdisciplinary Interventions Session II: Business Models and Sustainability Session III: Research […]
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Thu, Aug 28, 2014
A conversation with Tarun Khanna, Director of the Harvard South Asia Institute & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Professor Khanna will speak about SAI’s role as a bridge between Harvard faculty and South Asia, as well as his research on emerging markets and mobile technology, coordinated by SAI. The use of mobile phones […]
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Wed, Aug 13, 2014
Tarun Khanna, Director of the Harvard South Asia Institute & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Professor Khanna will speak about SAI’s role as a bridge between Harvard faculty and South Asia, as well as his research on emerging markets and mobile technology, coordinated by SAI. The use of mobile phones has become ubiquitous […]
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Sat, Jun 14, 2014 from 08:00am — 06:00pm, ET
Bangladesh Development Conference 2014 Read the report from the event. The objective of this year’s conference is to explore the linkages among development, garment sector and health and safety issues in Bangladesh. It will highlight the actors and factors that impinge on this linkage at national and global levels. The deliberation will explore how the […]
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Sat, May 17, 2014 from 03:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
The annual South Asian Poets Meeting will be hosted on May 17, 2014, from 3 PM to 5:30 PM in CGIS-010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA. The topic this year is “Mother Tongue,” “Matrubhsha” in Hindi. Poems in any South Asian or related languages are welcome. In lieu of an original poem, one can read a classical […]
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Thu, Apr 24, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
SAI Mahindra Lecture Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Founder and Chairperson of BRAC Introduction: Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; International Coordinator of the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing Sir Fazle was born in 1936 in Bangladesh. He was educated both at Dhaka and Glasgow universities. He was a professional […]
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Thu, Apr 24, 2014 - Fri, Apr 25, 2014, ET
SAI Annual Symposium As part of its Annual Symposium, SAI is hosting a series of workshops on April 24 and 25 to highlight ongoing faculty research projects supported by SAI. Thursday, April 24, 2014: Mobile Technology, 8:30 am – 11:00 am Disasters and Mental Health, 11:15 am – 1:45 pm The Contemporary South Asian City, […]
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Fri, Apr 18, 2014
A conversation with Diana Eck Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University, invites Harvard alumni and friends to join her in a conversation about India: A Sacred Geography. Eck’s book explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this […]
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Fri, Apr 11, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Jonathan Shainin, News Editor, newyorker.com; Former Senior Editor, The Caravan Hasit Shah, BBC News, London, Nieman Fellow Ravi Nessman, South Asia Bureau Chief, Associated Press; Nieman Fellow Chair: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard Kennedy School
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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 from 07:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
Discussant: Shankar Ramaswami, South Asia Institute South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Join the Harvard Global Health Institute and the South Asia Institute in a live webinar discussion for K-12 educators of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, […]
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Sat, Feb 15, 2014 - Sun, Feb 16, 2014, ET
Join us at the 12th edition of the India Conference at Harvard to exchange powerful ideas, kindle new partnerships, question the status-quo and push your peers and yourself to shape your idea of what India in the 21st century stands for. The theme of this year’s conference is India, Turning the Page: Prospects and Paradoxes and speakers include Pawan Munjal, CEO of Hero Corp; Gen V.K. Singh, Former Chief of the Indian Army; Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, NDTV; Aruna Roy, Political and Social Activist; Ambassador Shyam Saran, Bollywood Director Shakun Batra and many more. Panel topics cover a wide range of interests such as Tourism and Hospitality, Global Implications of Indian politics, the LGBT rights movement, Women interaction in the corporate world and the Future of impact investing in India, among others.
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