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Fri, May 1, 2015 from 01:00pm — 02:30pm
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic of India Chair: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Montek Singh Ahluwalia is the former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for India. For his outstanding contribution to economic policy and public service, he was conferred the prestigious ‘Padma Vibhushan’ by the President […]
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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
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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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm
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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Mon, May 4, 2015 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm
Special Event Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Board of Governors, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia is a renowned Indian economist, with wide experience in the fields of economic growth, productivity, industrial and trade […]
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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm
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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Mon, May 4, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
SAI Special Event Prashant Jha, Associate Editor, Hindustan Times. Chair: Madhav Khosla, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory, Department of Government, Harvard University On April 25, Nepal was hit by a devastating earthquake. Almost 5000 people have died and the numbers are steadily increasing. The full scale of losses in terms of human casualties, homes destroyed and […]
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Tue, Apr 21, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
Urbanization Seminar Brinda Somaya, Architect and Urban Conservationist. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Whether it involves the restoration of a rural Indian village, the creation of a corporate campus, the rejuvenation of city monuments or the […]
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Tue, Apr 14, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
Urbanization Seminar Speaker: Prem Chandavarkar, Managing Partner, CnT Architects. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is necessary to distinguish between ‘civic space’ and ‘public space’: the former must embrace inter-personal engagement, whereas the latter need not go […]
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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm
Urbanization Seminar Speaker: Maristella Casciato, Associate Director, Research – Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. The lecture Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges sheds light on the complex processes of decolonization after […]
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Tue, Mar 3, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Social Enterprise and Global Health Seminar Omar Ishrak, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic Discussant: Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard South Asia Institute, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Over the last several decades, medical technology advancements have steadily improved […]
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Mon, Feb 9, 2015 from 05:30pm — 08:00pm
VENUE
CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Due to weather and the University closing, this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. SAI Arts Initiative Event Exhibition Reception and Personal Tour at 5:30PM in the CGIS South Second Floor Lobby, followed by a panel discussion at 6:30PM CGIS S010. What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion […]
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Mon, Feb 23, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Without Border Seminar Anand Vaidya, SAI South Asian Studies Fellow Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Q+A with Anand Vaidya: The politics of conservation In September 2011, a forest village in Uttar Pradesh named Ramnagar was destroyed. The village had been settled four years earlier by landless members of lower […]
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