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Thu, Oct 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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Wed, Oct 29, 2014 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
Gender Seminar Jennifer Leaning, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer, Harvard Law […]
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Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:30pm, ET —
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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Wed, Oct 8, 2014 from 07:15pm — 08:15pm, ET
What can individuals do to address a defined problem? Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex problems. Using the lens of health to explore entrepreneurial opportunities, Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI, will give a free public lecture and lead a discussion based on his HarvardX course Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies. […]
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Wed, Oct 8, 2014 from 06:00pm — 09:00pm, ET
Cultural/Social Events, Arts Initiative, Special Event, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
A group show called South Asia Exchange: An exhibition exploring contemporary dialogue about South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, including social justice, pop culture, industry, the environment, food, music, and how they come into play with the idea of exchange. Exhibit duration: October 6 – October 14, 2014 Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 6 […]
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Tue, Oct 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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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Thu, Oct 2, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
SAI Book Talk Luke Patey, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies Discussants: Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Ahmad Al-Mahi, MPA candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Note: Due to heightened security because of visiting dignitaries, please enter the Rubinstein building from the JFK park entrance on October 2. Non-Harvard attendees should contact Rohit Chandra (rchandra@fas.harvard.edu) […]
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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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