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Gender Challenges

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Thu, Oct 27, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Book Talk Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester Pauline Peters, Fellow, African Studies Center, Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Development, Harvard University. Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, […]

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Getting Better: Stories from KEM Hospital and GS Medical College, India

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Wed, Oct 26, 2016 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Student Event Join us for a film screening, dinner, & discussion with Gulserene Dastur, the filmmaker, & Dr. David Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine “The Hospital that never turns anyone away”: A 2200 bed, state-run hospital which treats 1.7 million people a year – overcrowded, used and abused, KEM Hospital […]

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Weekly Tea Break

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Wed, Oct 26, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Harvard faculty, students, fellows, staff, and affiliates are invited to a weekly tea break at SAI’s office, 4th floor of 1730 Cambridge Street. Come enjoy tea and snacks and get to know SAI’s community. *Please note the change in time

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India and Japan, India and China

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Tarun Das,  former Director-General and Chief Mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industries Chair:  Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Asia Center Seminar Series, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

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Energy Access in Remote Communities – A Practitioner’s Experience

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Science and Technology Seminar Anshuman Lath, Co-Founder, Gram Oorja  Chair: Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting professor, MIT; Professor and Director of the BP Chair on Sustainable Development, Comillas University Gram Oorja Solutions Private Limited (www.gramoorja.in), founded in 2007, has worked in over 120 remote villages of India, providing electricity, drinking water and cooking fuel to tribal communities. A key feature […]

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Weekly Tea Break

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

Harvard faculty, students, fellows, staff, and affiliates are invited to a weekly tea break at SAI’s office, 4th floor of 1730 Cambridge Street. Come enjoy tea and snacks and get to know SAI’s community. *Please note the change in time

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Urbanization in South Asia: Conversations from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

Urbanization Seminar Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America  Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design This panel brings together three urban scholars […]

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Embracing Waterfronts: Dock Worker Solidarities in International Perspective

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Shubhankita Ojha, Global Fellow, WIGH; Fellow, South Asia Institute, Harvard University; University of Delhi, India Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Graduate Student Commentator: Rudi Batzell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Learn more about Ojha’s research:    

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Hackathon 2016

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Sat, Oct 15, 2016 - Sun, Oct 16, 2016, ET

Student Event Pakathon Boston is partnering with SAI, the Harvard Pakistan Student’s Group, and the HKS Pakistan Caucus this year to organize its annual ‘hackathon.’ Teams will work to create a solution for a social issue in Pakistan and work on a business plan to implement this solution. They’ve put together an amazing program; anyone who […]

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The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean

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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:00am, ET — Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 06:00pm, ET

Special Event The interregional arena of the Indian Ocean has emerged as a connected—if not unified—field of historical study. While the case for integration had been strongly suggested by historical scholarship since the 1980s on the pre-colonial and early modern periods, comparisons and connections across the Indian Ocean in the colonial and modern eras have […]

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