Shawn D’Andrea, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative South Asia is particularly vulnerable to disasters, from terrorist attacks, to floodings, to earthquakes that can affect large populations. In order to address these humanitarian crises, the fundamentals of mass casualty management are critical. This seminar will teach incident command, which is a […]
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Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:30pm, ET
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Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School
ADDRESS
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
Taubman Building
79 John F. Kennedy St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Science, Technology and Energy Seminar Jairam Ramesh, Economist, Member of the Indian National Congress, Fisher Family Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Ramesh is a Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and a leader in international climate negotiations. A Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh, Ramesh was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations […]
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Tue, Sep 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
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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Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Closing seminar and reception Kevin Bubriski, Documentary Photographer; Director of Documentary Studies, Green Mountain College; 2010-2011 Robert Gardner Visiting Artist, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Discussants: Professor Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Boston University Professor Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, South and Southeast Asia, Harvard University […]
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Tue, Sep 23, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Munis Faruqui, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley Chair: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program For almost 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme […]
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Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 07:00pm, ET
VENUE
Paine Hall
ADDRESS
Paine Hall
Behind 1 Oxford Street Music Building
Cambridge, MA
The SPK Academy, the LearnQuest Academy of Music and the Harvard South Asia Institute are excited to present an Indian Classical music concert by two world renowned musicians: sitar maestro Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan and tabla maestro Pandit Anindo Chatterjee. The on-stage chemistry between these musical virtuosos is simply electrifying and their performances always take Indian Classical music […]
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Fri, Sep 19, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S010
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S010
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Gender and Arts at SAI Seminar Nandita Das, Actor, Director, and Advocate of Social Issues Cara Moyer-Duncan, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College Moderator: Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Nandita Das is known to world audiences for her critically acclaimed performances as an actor in […]
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Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
VENUE
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
SAI Film Screening Based on a true story that sent shock waves through India in 1992, this drama concerns Sanwari (Nandita Das), a lower-caste woman with a husband, Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav), and two children, who is raising her family in a rural village. While it’s generally Sanwari’s nature to mind her own business and take […]
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Tue, Sep 9, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
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CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
SAI Book Talk Moeed Yusuf, Editor of Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge and Director of South Asia Programs at the US Institute of Peace Chair: Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Dr.Yusuf has studied counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency responses in many countries including Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal and other non-South Asian countries. In his talk, […]
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Greetings from the Harvard Club of Chennai! As you know, it’s an interesting coincidence that Harvard University turns 378 on Sep 8th, while Chennai turns 375 years old. To commemorate this occasion, we have a special event planned on Sep 8th, 7pm at The Forum Art Gallery (#57, 5th Street, Padmanabha Nagar, Adyar, Chennai, 600020, India). Cartoonist Biswajit […]
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