Session 10: Harvard Museums
Visit the Harvard Museums website here.
Please come prepared to answer the following question:
1) How can your existing programs leverage publicly available museums in Maharasthra?
2) What can you do to improve/augment the state of development of museums to make them useful research instructional vehicles?
Session 11: Perspectives on a Liberal Arts Education – The Importance of Education Conducted in a Spirit of Free Inquiry
Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Required reading:
Pollock, Sheldon. “The Real Classical Languages Debate.”
Recommended reading:
Flexner, Abraham. “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.” Harpers (179), June/November 2939.
Please come prepared to answer the following question:
1) Can the liberal arts be a guidepost for education in 21st century India? If so, how? If not, why not?
Session 12: Promoting Cultural and Religious Literacy: On Campus and Online
Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, and Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Session 13: Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard: The Harvard Academy
Dinner with Laurence Winnie, Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies and researchers at Harvard