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Tue, Mar 24, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Hasna Moudud, SAI Research Affiliate; Former Visiting Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science This talk will examine the Tea Horse Road, from Yunnan tea country that travels through Tibet, India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, which was once one of the […]
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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Anna B. Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, North Carolina State University Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University Sufi tomb shrines in India are well-known for […]
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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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Tue, Feb 17, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
SAI Book Talk Sanchita Saxena, Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Berkeley; Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Fauzia Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Miami University; SAI Research Affiliate Chair: John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Professor in Health Policy and […]
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Tue, Jan 27, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm
This event has been cancelled. Please visit our Summer Grants page for frequently asked questions. Come hear about SAI Summer Funding opportunities, including research and internship grants, and ask any last minute questions about the application process. Summer Grant Applications Deadlines: All Graduate Grant Applications: February 13, 2015 All Undergraduate Grant Applications: February 9, […]
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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm
South Asia Without Borders Seminar James Manor, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This talk will examine certain key implications of a monumentally important trend, […]
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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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Tue, Sep 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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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