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Thu, Oct 12, 2017 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Borders in Modern Asia Workshop Inaugural Lecture Commemorating Sister Nivedita’s 150th Birth Anniversary REBA SOM Historian and Author of Margot (2017) CHAIRED BY SUGATA BOSE Gardiner Professor of History
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Tue, Oct 10, 2017 from 12:30pm — 02:00pm, ET
Dr. Shetty’s innovation in driving down cardiac surgery costs at his Narayana Health Hospital chain has often been compared to Henry Ford’s automobile assembly lines. At 14,000 surgeries last year, Narayana Health has given thousands access to life saving procedures that were previously out of reach. Dr. Shetty’s low-cost model has inspired accessible healthcare around the world.
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Fri, Aug 11, 2017 - Mon, Aug 14, 2017, ET
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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Mon, Apr 24, 2017 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Please join the India and South Asia Project in a conversation with Ambassador Feldman, Ambassador Grossman, and Ambassador Olson on the evolution of U.S. Policy in Afghanistan. Join the India and South Asia Project for a panel which will explore the evolution of U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The speakers include: Daniel Feldman, former US Special […]
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Mon, Apr 24, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Research Affiliate Hasit Shah – journalist, Londoner and Prince fan – explores the connections between a group of second-generation British South Asians and a musician they too claimed as one of their own.
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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event A public reading and discussion with British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta. Rana is a novelist and essayist, and the winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for his novel Solo. He currently lives in Delhi and his nonfiction book Capital constructs an intimate oral history to unfold the possibilities and catastrophes of the city’s elite class. […]
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Thu, Apr 20, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Amiya Bhatia, Doctor of Science student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Connor Jerzak, PhD student, Government Department South Asia has the largest number of children who do not have birth certificates. As biometric identification programs (e.g. Aadhaar in India, NADRA in […]
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Tue, Apr 18, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Panelists: Kornel Chang, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark Catherine Warner, College Fellow in South Asian Studies and History at Harvard University Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History at Brown University Discussants: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies Professor of History at Harvard University Hardeep Dhillon, […]
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Fri, Apr 7, 2017 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Yusuf Neggers, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University Simon Chauchard, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Dartmouth College Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Director of the Brown-India Initiative Read the seminar paper. Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the […]
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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Coins are small metallic documents of the past. In the images and legends impressed upon them, they contain clues that can give us insights into the times in which they were created and used. In this talk, examples from ancient India will be used to show how the unpuzzling of these clues can help us bring back forgotten dynasties, recreate historical events and shine a light on political and economic conditions.
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Arts Seminar Madhu Das, Visiting Artist, SAI Arts Program Chair: Susan Bean, Independent Scholar and Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies Madhu Das is a multi-disciplinary Visual Artist based in Mumbai, India; his artistic practice is primarily concerned with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that […]
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Mon, Mar 27, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Madeeha Syed, Pakistani Journalist Marco Werman, The World Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University Join Pakistani journalist Madeeha Syed, Marco Werman from Public Radio International’s The World, and Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, for […]
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