SAI Education Seminar Tara Beteille, World Bank Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School This paper provides a detailed account of how the system of teacher transfers operates in large parts of India. It presents evidence to suggest that teacher transfers form the bedrock of a patronage-based low-accountability school system. Politicians need teachers because teachers are […]
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Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 06:30pm, ET
Urbanization Lecture Series Series of Lectures with Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Read a summary of the event: Exploring a city’s narrative Tuesday, Oct. 21: “Migration: Storytelling the City” (6:30PM, Piper Auditorium GSD) The worldwide stampede to urban areas has produced a set of narratives about the city; dislocation demands recollection. What […]
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Asad Ahmed, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of California Berkeley Chair: Khaled el-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History; member of the Steering Committee of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program This lecture aims to show that the history of the rationalist disciplines […]
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SAI Book Talk Jocelyne Cesari, Senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Visiting Associate professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University; Director of Islam in the West, Harvard University Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In this book, Jocelyne Cesari explores the relationship between modernization, politics, […]
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Mon, Oct 6, 2014 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Smriti Srinivas, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Cosponsored with the Harvard University Social Anthropology Colloquium This presentation seeks to understand the ethnographic and analytical registers of […]
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Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 01:00pm, ET
SAI South Asia Without Border Seminar Richard Wolf, Department of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
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Education Seminar Pramath Raj Sinha, Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business and a founder of Ashoka University Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School “Everyone knows Indian Higher Education is a mess. Proposals for its transformation abound, but things continue to go from bad to worse. Despite the doom and gloom, there are […]
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Tue, Sep 23, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Munis Faruqui, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program For almost 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme […]
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SAI Book Talk Moeed Yusuf, Editor of Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge and Director of South Asia Programs at the US Institute of Peace Chair: Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Dr.Yusuf has studied counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency responses in many countries including Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal and other non-South Asian countries. In his talk, […]
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Wed, Apr 16, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Science, Technology and Energy Seminar Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program’s Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Seating is limited. Seminars in this series are presentations and fairly technical economics papers. Some background in economics is helpful.
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Mon, Apr 14, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
Global Health Seminar ‘Indian healthcare: Reforms, results and road ahead’ Sofi Bergkvist, Managing Director, ACCESS Health International ‘Open Secret : Parallel Systems and Human Resource Management in India’s Public Health Service: A View from the Front Lines’ Jerry La Forgia, Lead Health Specialist, World Bank Chair: Peter Berman, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and […]
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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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