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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Henrik Valeur, Architect-Urbanist, Founder and Creative Director of UiD Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Can India use urbanization as a driver of economic, human and social development like China has done? How can Indian cities be made more inclusive, productive and livable? Are there any […]
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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm, ET
Special Event In collaboration with the upcoming “Megacities Asia” exhibition on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from April 3 to July 17, 2016, this event will bring together artists and academics to examine contemporary Asian megacities including Beijing, Delhi, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Discussions will focus on the built environment in these […]
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Tue, Mar 22, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Tarun Khanna, Director, SAI, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
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Tue, Mar 8, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Julia King, Architectural designer and urban researcher, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Diana Al-Hadid, Designer Dr. Atyia Martin, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Boston; Adjunct faculty in the Master of Homeland Security at Northeastern University Moderator:Susan Surface, Program Director at Design in Public On March 8, 2016, Women in Design, a […]
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Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Christopher Clary, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University In traditional surveys in Pakistan, the vast majority of respondents identify India as an enemy and a serious threat to Pakistan. Do these beliefs affect voter choices? In a novel survey experiment, we […]
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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Graduate Student Associate Seminar Priyasha Saksena, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School; SAI Graduate Student Associate Chair: Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk focuses on jurisdictional disputes between the Indian princely states and the British Government in late nineteenth-century South Asia to flesh out both the role played by international law in the definition […]
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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Anand V. Taneja, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Anthropology, Asian Studies Program, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Relations between religions in South Asia have been seen as marked by either competition or […]
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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Dean Spears, Rice Institute Dean Spears is the Executive Director of the RICE Institute. Dean’s research focuses on children’s health and human capital, which these days often means height, sanitation, and social forces in Indian households and villages. He has also done research about population issues in social welfare […]
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Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:30pm, ET — Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 02:30pm, ET
Student Event “Re-thinking Local” will examine how architects are developing new models of locally-based design practice given the changing realities of urbanization around the world, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia. These two public events feature Vo Trong Nghia, the most prolific contemporary architect in Vietnam, and Marina Tabassum, the leading female architect […]
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Modern Asia Seminar and Arts at SAI Seminar Ian Holliday,Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong ‘Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of transition,’ an exhibit of paintings will be on display Thursday, February 4 – Monday, February 22, 2016 in the Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge […]
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Thu, Feb 11, 2016 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor of the Political Economy of Development Cosponsored with the Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor Faguet will also be speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School of Friday, February 12, 11:45 am – 1:00 pm in an event sponsored by the Center for International Development. […]
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Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:30pm, ET
Cosponsored Event ‘Altered State: Painting Myanmar in a time of transition,’ an exhibit of paintings will be on display Thursday, February 4 – Monday, February 22, 2016 in the Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Seminar on February 19: Freedom and Fear in Myanmar with Ian Holliday,Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of […]
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