A Reading and Discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur & Vivek Bald Moderated by Walter Johnson Inaugurating “South Asia and Its Diasporas” A new event/lecture series co-sponsored by MIT-India & SAI Join the Facebook event. In 1903, a young woman named Sujaria and a young man named Abdul Aziz left the port of Calcutta in separate ships, sailing […]
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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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Tue, Apr 15, 2014 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET
SAI Film Screening Part 1: April 14, 5:30 PM, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Part 2: April 15, 6:00 PM, Lecture Hall, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Michael Oppitz, Professor emeritus of ethnography, University of Zurich & former director of the Ethnographic Museum Chair:Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art […]
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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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Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
SAI Book Talk Jeffrey Witsoe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Union College Discussant: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, […]
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Thu, Apr 10, 2014 from 01:30pm — 03:00pm, ET
Science Technology and Energy Seminar Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor, Delhi University; Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Cosponsored with the Political Anthropology Working Group Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian with a special interest in environmental history and colonial history of British India. He […]
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Tue, Apr 8, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Christopher Lee, Lecturer in International Relations, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand; Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Kris K. Manjapra, Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University Cosponsored with the W. E. B. Du Bois […]
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Mon, Apr 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Global Health Seminar Diego Bassani, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Chair: SV Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Cosponsored with the Center for Population Development Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 […]
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Fri, Apr 4, 2014 from 09:00am — 04:30pm, ET
Women in India: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity Keynote Speaker: Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University Closing speaker: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and Director of the Harvard South Asia Institute Established in 2008, Educators for Teaching India (EFTI) is a group […]
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